• Ebrall P

• Ethics
• Narration
• Open Access Document
• Social Behavior
• Subluxation

Abstract: Chiropractic is the diagnosis and management of the neuromusculoskeletal system of the human body with the emergent problem of an increasing shrinkage of the constitutional framework of the discipline where current arguments continue to remove reference to subluxation from the profession’s lexicon, even flagitiously mandating against teaching the idea within its natural context. 

The challenge I address in this paper are my observations that subluxation on the one hand is not real as a materialist would want it to be, yet is alive and well in the majority of practices globally where fully-trained Chiropractors address and resolve this clinical entity many times a day. 

I hold that a Chiropractor carries spontaneous unspoken trust in what they see and feel, with the paradox that they can only convey this by constructing and conducting fuzzy narratives. Narration conveys the idea of the Chiropractor’s perspectival truth of a particular subluxation in a particular patient, to allow correction by hand in a manner which the patient understands and accepts as their clinical reality. 

Author keywords: Chiropractic; Subluxation; Narrative; Narration; Ethics; Rawlsian social contract