The basis of structural/biomechanical problems has been found and you can correct ALL of them not related to cancer, infections, fractures or gross anomalies of shape Engineers have it a bit different in this world than doctors. A doctor works on ten patients; only four are better. The doc keeps doing the same thing, saying it was some variation in living things that caused the other six not to respond. An engineer builds ten bridges, ten cars, or ten anything, and only four of them work. He is quickly out of a job. To be effective, in healthcare as in the rest of the physical sciences, one must look to actual physical results in the evaluation of theories and methods of treatment. This is because, despite the fact that we run bodies, we are not our bodies. (We being spirit, soul, innate or whatever you believe YOU are, and not the body you run in the physical universe). Bodies are physical things that follow the same physical rules everything else follows. Given that, to find the basics of how something works, one must look at more and not less of the body. Since the 1970's, Chiro Boards of Examiners and others have been trying to lessen the ability to measure body structure, by attempting to restrict X-ray pre- and post treatment. Some of us have ignored the restrictions and continued the research. I have been using sitting and standing full spine AP and lateral films to measure changes in many techniques for the last 20 years. (Standing and sitting, because a body can compensate for much with the feet, legs and pelvis, when standing. When sitting, you remove the ability of the body to use the feet and legs for any but minimal compensation. Thus, standing upright films of the spine compared to sitting upright films view the mechanics of the body compensated (standing) and much less compensated (sitting). Mechanical analysis is more complete than just standing or just sitting. You can see what changes, rather than having to guess—you would not believe how incorrect the so-called "experts" are in their guesses of what changes sitting to standing. Try a few—even sectionals.) With the observational data from those films, anatomic observations and application of engineering analysis, what has been missing from chiropractic to make it work consistently and predictably have been discovered. I offer here a few of the observations toward something better: First, D. D. Palmer stated that bones go out of place affecting the nerves. That means that structure is key, not nerves, despite what followers-on have said. There have been several deviations from this course due to inconsistency of results. The largest deviation from that basic truth came after mechanical research by X-ray in the 1960 's and 70's. It did not confirm chiropractic's bone out-of-place-pinching-a-nerve theory, due to faulty re- search methods and faulty mechanical analyses. The main fault was not looking at the spinal column as a single synchronized working unit, but taking things sec-tionally.) To explain the failure, Dr. Homewood came along with his book/thesis, The Neurodyiuimics of Vertebral Subhix-ation. This book is the direct source of the current "nerves are not working so the muscle is weak and letting the bone go out of place" theories. However, there have been previous attempts at this theory in several disciplines of structural healing. None of the nerve-based or muscle-based theories, i.e., chiropractic, PT or other, has ever given a consistent set of results and, so, are suspect. I am not knocking the generation of these theories; they are attempts to find something better. However, there is something better. It works consistently and predictably and is available right now. Given that preamble, I present the following anatomical observations: Regarding displacement of a vertebra: If a vertebra displaces to the left, there are muscles in the body to pull it to the right and reposition it; same with right-to-left. (We are just considering the anatomical observations. We are not, here, concerned with the fact that the muscles often seem not to do so or the reasons they do not do so.) If a vertebra displaces posterior, you have muscles in your body to pull them anterior and reposition them. If it's in the lumbar region, the psoas pulls anterior, repositioning bones everytime you stand from sitting; if it's midlumbars-to-midthoracics, the diaphragm pulls anterior everytime you breathe. (Test: Pinch your nose shut, closing your mouth. Suck in. Notice the diaphragm pulls your vertebrae anterior.) Above that, various muscles pull the cervicals and upper thoracics anterior. (Test: Put your head half in flexion, putting a palm on your forehead. Then attempt to flex against the resistance of your palm. Notice the pull of the muscles.) On the other hand, if a vertebra displaces anterior, there are no muscles that pull posterior to reposition it. The muscles of the back are oriented vertically and horizontally. They pull inferior-superior, left-right and on angles between those two; BUT THEY DO NOT PULL POSTERIOR. To pull posterior, there would have to be a muscle that attaches from the vertebra to something stable behind the vertebra. (Just skin back there for me.) Many would object to that observation, stating the erector spinae, longisimus, multifidus and other muscles pull posterior, but they are not looking at the orientations of those muscles and their directions of pull. People not exactly observing the orientations and directions of pull of muscles are misled by what the back muscles seem to do. They pull down on the back of the vertebrae, rotating them into extension. This tilts the body posterior and seems to bring the vertebrae posterior, but it does not What you have here is a missed observation: Bodies can self-correct vertebra] subluxations displacing laterally and posterior, but cannot self-correct vertebrae displaced anterior. (Rarely do they just go anterior; usually anterior-left, -right, -rotated, etc; the anterior component, the body cannot self-correct.) This is no theory. This is a huge anatomic and physiologic fact omitted from chiropractic, as well as osteopathy and every other method of structural healthcare. It means that the twisting, tilting and malpositioning of vertebrae in directions other than anterior is to compensate for vertebrae displaced anterior, because the body cannot self-correct the positions of those anteriorly displaced vertebrae. It also leads to a single statement that describes what chiropractors need to do to correct bodies: Correcting body structure consists of repositioning siibluxated hones the body cannot self-correct, he-cause no muscles pull in the direction needed to bring the hone hack into its proper position. The key is doing just that, leaving everything else alone so the body can self-correct the rest. The theory of treating only the primary subluxations and not compensations has been stated before. However, no one has been able to state exactly what a primary subluxation consists of, prior to this point. The above discovery leads to consistently and predictably being able to accomplish the promise of chiropractic on everyone walking in the door with structural problems. Yes, that statement is very broad, but it has been demonstrated over the last 12-or-so years, using treatment according to the Advanced Biostructural Correction™ (ABC™) Protocol. In fact, the body self-corrects so well and fast, it is difficult to believe for those with no direct experience using this technique. The change in posture and structural alignment in patients treated according to this protocol would be impossible if any of the ligament or muscle theories were correct. But, these are simple, direct structural changes. This is what chiropractic has been saying could be done consistently and predictably with no exceptions when there are no fractures, infections, cancers or like anomalies. One time through the ABC™ protocol does not fix everything, but it does more in four minutes than any other method of structural health care can do in a much longer period of time. I invite anyone to call and learn the first rib maneuver, which will immediately have an effect on patients and docs (it is one of the few things you can do yourself and actually get the same results): 1. Breathing easier. 2. Nasal passages will be more openT 3. Shoulder will immediately not sluing forward. 4. Legs will be looser on squatting anc moving. 5. and more, but the list is pretty long Find out for yourself that chiropractic does work consistently and predictably on every body that walks in your door with structural problems. Let's get this profession rolling the way it should be by getting consistent and predictable results. For more information about Advanced Biostructural Correction, visit www, advhiostructuralcorr. com. Dr. Jesse Jutkowitz, can be reached by calling 203-366-2746 or e-mail [email protected]. Call for a free data package and vidpn BW3
