• Embrall PS

• Manipulation, Chiropractic
• Open Access Document

Narrative: The idea of subluxation has strong clinical relevance within the practice of Chiropractic, being integral to some 80% of the profession globally and is overt in more than 1,600 peer-reviewed, indexed Case Reports.

History records the founder of the discipline, DD Palmer, as naming the unique psychomotor skills that he developed to, as he said ‘move the vertebrae of the spinal column’, the ‘adjustment’. These skills were taught by him at the Palmer School of Chiropractic and are now used by nearly all Chiropractors globally. The skills required to safely deliver the adjustment are a mandatory attainment in every curriculum. The purpose is to restore health and well-being.

A variety of techniques can be applied to correct subluxation and when these meet certain criteria, given here, for applied force and speed of force application, then the therapeutic intervention is known as a Chiropractic adjustment.

To conclude, I present Haavik et al’s contemporary model of the mechanism by which central segmental motor control (CSMC) problems and spinal adjustments result in neuroplastic consequences that impact neuromuscular function.

Author keywords: chiropractic; subluxation; adjustment; manipulation’; central segmental motor control (CSMC).

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