Subluxation Complex Texts

1. Introduction - Somatovisceral Considerations in the Science of Tone, 2. Health Perspectives - Past, Present, and Future, 3. History of Legal Conflict, 4. Autonomic Neuroanatomy of the Vertebral Subluxation, 5. Referred Pain and Related Phenomena - Selected Topics, 6. Patient-Based Outcomes Assessment - "Pencil-and-Paper" Instruments, 7. Instrumentation and Imaging, 8. Mechanically Induced Pelvic Pain and Organic Dysfunction, 9. The Alimentary Canal - A Current Chiropractic Perspective, 10. Chiropractic Care and the Cardiovascular System, 11. Breathing and the Verteberal Subluxation Complex, 12. Chiropractic Aspects of Headache as a Somatovisceral Problem, 13. Subluxation and the Special Senses, 14. Endocrine Disorders, 15. Somatovisceral Involvement in the Pediatric Patient, 16. The Somatovisceral Interface - Further Evidence, 17. Neurological Holism - Chiropractic's Scientific Future?

For chiropractic practitioners and students, this book reviews the major theories of chiropractic. It reviews the philosophy, terminology, and history of the field; the pathophysiology of segmental dysfunction, the vertebral subluxation complex, and the spine; developmental aspects; and chiropractic research are among the topics. This third edition is more oriented towards clinical practice than the earlier editions in 1980 and 1986.

Now updated in its 2nd edition, the first research-based book on this topic examines the direct link between joint dysfunction, the theories of its effects, and the clinical syndromes seen in clinical practice. Focusing on three facets of spinal subluxation – the articular lesion, subluxation theories, and subluxation syndromes – it explains the practical principles and the evidence-based research behind safe and effective chiropractic care. Scientific evidence is presented for indications and contraindications of subluxation, along with term definitions, basic science and anatomy, subluxation causes, radiographic evidence, manipulable and nonmanipulable subluxation, a theoretical model, and subluxation syndromes. Many of the most respected names in chiropractic have contributed chapters to this book and present the common ground of chiropractic in a logical and understandable manner.

The volume is a product of the work of the leading authorities in the fields of history, neurophysiology, spinal biomechanics, sociology and clinical chiropractic.   Compiled as an overview text for undergraduate chiropractic students and introduction to the current principles and practices of chiropractic for members of other healing professions.