• Rome PL
• Waterhouse JD

• Neural Inhibition
• Neurophysiology
• Open Access Document
• Subluxation
• Vertebral Subluxation Complex

Narrative: This is the final paper 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 includes medical and Chiropractic papers in the medical indices and is additional to that available in the electronic Index to Chiropractic Literature.

This paper presents the evidence for Principle Five by documenting the evidence that supports a Chiropractor’s manual intervention to correct subluxations is associated with changes to dysfunction and neural pathophysiology. These changes are shown to ameliorate symptoms and restore physiology. 

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) - Segmental neural disturbance - Neurophysiology - Adjustment - Correction

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