• Cuthbert S

• Cervical Vertebrae
• Chiropractic
• Leg
• Low Back Pain
• Open Access Document
• Subluxation

Narrative: The cervical disc syndrome has classic indicators of motor, reflex, and sensation dysfunction. Applied kinesiology Chiropractic techniques may indicate a subluxation when all of the disc diagnostic criteria are not present. 

Goodheart postulates that some cervical spine and low back pain, as well as radicular problems from the cervical and lumbar levels, can result from a unique type of lower cervical subluxation, causing laxity of the annulus fibrosis and perhaps an intervertebral disc bulge. His interest in this was piqued by the work of Kabat, who found that lower cervical disc problems often caused low back and leg pain. Kabat went so far to state ‘This investigation has demonstrated conclusively that compression of the cervical spinal cord by the herniated nucleus pulposus of the cervical disc is the most common cause of low back and leg pain’. 

Two case reports highlight the Goodheart-AK-chiropractic approach to this disturbing problem for chiropractic patients. 

Author keywords: Chiropractic - Subluxation - Low Back pain - Leg pain - Cervical disc

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