Chiropractic: A measured science!

With the advent of national health care reform and the mercy conference guidelines, there has been a great deal of talk about documentation, measurement, reproducibility and research. When the word research is mentioned there is continual reference to the fact that chiropractic doesn't have adequate research to prove its credibility and that a great deal of money is needed to found the massive amount necessary. Along with the talk of healthcare reform is the question by all of us regarding our inclusion in the health care plan. Patient expectations are high and legislative changes are demanding effective screening, diagnostic and therapeutic methodologies.

Each of us is well aware of the miraculous benefits of chiropractic care and each doctor could speak for hours on the any wonderful success stories that have happened in the office. Numerous patients will attest to the fact that chiropractic is a measured science and that each doctor can now do valid scientific research in their own office for minimal cost.In some cases standard orthopedic and neurological testing procedures verify a patient's level of injury. However, we are also aware that a greater number of patients have been truly injured yet the standard diagnostic procedures are all negative. This leaves us in a quandary to verify a patients' valid need for treatment.

Chiropractic has been synonymous with the spine. We all believe, and can verify neurologically in our practices, that the spinal column in proper alignment is vital for good health. Yet often in chiropractic the muscle system is almost totally ignored. Muscles move bones and if examined quantitatively and qualitatively, they will bring a wealth of knowledge that not only helps in diagnosis but enables us to measure the effectiveness of the applied therapy.

This hologramic approach to the body can verify why a patient has neck pain along with seemingly unrelated symptoms elsewhere. With the advent of instrumentation, muscle weakness and the corresponding correlations are a measurable phenomena for chiropractic. The body is a highly bioelectrical instrument that has an intelligence that far surpasses our own. The body calls upon different systems for different procedures necessary for survival. These are complex patterns that elude even the most complex research because we keep looking at smaller and smaller pieces without taking an objective look at the whole. The body has a definitive pattern that relays information at different relay (reflex) stations and allows complicated functions to become a reality within nanoseconds.

What an exciting event for chiropractic to finally be able to understand and retrace the reflex phenomenon and the seemingly unrelated patterns of traumatic display and be able to correct them in a scientifically measured approach. With the advent of the SP 200 we are now able to more objectively determine the specific frequency that connects it to brain function. Within the major frequency are numerous subfrequencies that relate to the various muscle functions and interrelate the muscle to its own components and interrelated components throughout the body.

With the instrument we are now able to understand why adjusting the great toe may alleviate a headache. For example, the patient complains of neck pain and through standard examination procedures the diagnosis is made of a subluxation of C 2. Treatment is applied and C 2 is adjusted. The patient feels better and is scheduled for return. Upon reexamination C 2 is found to be subluxated again. This can happen for numerous visits. Testing a specific muscle, such as the Sternocleidomastoid can lead us to other problems as well as the subluxation problem. By applying the frequency of the Sternocleidomastoid muscle with the SP 200, the body is able to connect the C 2 subluxation to other problems and upon connecting, the adjustment now holds.

Isn't it so in chiropractic that we say we treat the cause and not the effect? In the above example, adjusting C 2 without examining the correlations to the muscle was not treatingthe entire problem. The actual problem could have been affected by the cranial bone subluxation creating tension in the muscle that related the vertebra to re-subluxate until such time as the cranial bone involvement could be corrected and the entire chain of events could correct itself. We have many times had the happenstance that by adjusting one area of the body another area that has been a long-standing problem is corrected. By using the SP 200, the corresponding muscles manuals and computer program each chiropractor can now provide measurable data that aids in the diagnosis and treatment and collectively we can accumulate data that proves chiropractic is a measured science.