• Rome PL
• Waterhouse JD

• Open Access Document
• Spine / abnormalities
• Subluxation
• Vertebral Subluxation Complex

Narrative: This is the second of a 6-paper series which presents a descriptive narrative of the Western medical literature to identify and report evidence for each of the five principles of the Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC) premise as established in 1947 by Janse, Houser, and Wells (National College of Chiropractic). This literature is additional to that from the chiropractic perspective which is available in the electronic Index to Chiropractic Literature.

The first part of this paper introduced the series and gave evidence to establish Principle One that ‘a vertebrae may subluxate’. This second paper as Part 2 presents the evidence for Principle One by documenting the evidence for the onset of a Vertebral Subluxation Complex.

This 6-part series describes the incontrovertible acknowledgement and weight of recognition of the effect of physical, biomechanical, and physiological vertebral disturbances collectively contributing to the VSC and demonstrates strong support of the chiropractic nomenclature, neurophysiological and clinical implications of the Vertebral Subluxation Complex as recorded in the medical literature.

Author keywords: Subluxation - Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC) - Onset - Vertebral dysfunction.

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