Chiropractor Flashcards
(22 cards)
What was the birth of chiropractor
When they cured someone’s deafness and were called bone setters and this was more of their part-time work on the side for clients that were regarded by academically trained physicians as inconsequential or beneath their dignity
Who is Palmer
frequently mentioned the bonesetter’s tradition identified with it and the professionalization of the craft bonsetting became chiropractic which stands for hard work
What is magnetic healing
Chiropractic was not evolved from medicine or any other method expect that of magnetic thought that unimpeded flow of energy with health and defines illness as obstruction
What was Palmer’s major revision of traditional magnetism
Innate intelligence and to claim that its pathway was the human nervous system, especially the spinal cord and misaligned veterbrae impinge on this beneficent flow and cause illness
What is spinal irritation
Anything wrong in your organs was due to this irritation and correcting this irritation they would restore general health
What is regular vs irregular
Regular physicians vs irregulars which referred to alternative medicine practitioners
How the reception of bonsetting and magnetism
It was warmly recieved but conventional medicine recognize this as a threat
What is innate intelligence
Any intelligence that is wired into our body and it governs every act that our body does it is controlled or fought off by this innate intelligence but this was dispute from the beginning John A Howard warned students to make a relgioun out of an ethic and many chiropractors do not want to have tiest to this
What is subluxation
That you have a misalignment from a single vertebra, but if you have a vertebra that is misaligned, then you are dead which later got expanded to the meaning of joint mobility and it’s issue along with curvature of your spine
What do chiropractors refer to subluxation now
Vertbral subluxation complex, which is a mechanical impediments beyond bone displacement that include mobility, postur,e blood flow,w muscle tone, and conditions of the nerves themselves
What are straight practitoners
Rely on spinal adjustments and that subluxation is the leading cause of disease the battle between straight and mixer continues today straight usually tend to chiropractic not as the best response but as the only response
Tend to rely exclusively on spinal adjustments to emphazie innate intelligence
What are mixers
Open to conventional medicine and to mainstream scientific tennets plus the past theory most chiropractors use physical therapy techniques tend to have a narrower and more modest claim for chiropractic scope of practice and a second larger groups of mixers seeks to situate themselves in the broader mainstream health care system as specialists in musculoskeletal disorders
What is adjusting
Temporary increase in range of motion gas coming out of the synovial fluid adjustments say don’t do anything but a lot of people feel better after
What is thrust
Two differnt ways long lever tehcninque is through a distant linkage where the short lever is through direct contact
What is amplitude refered to as
The depth or distance traveled by a practitioners thrust when joints are less accessible or when a long lever is involved the amplitude increases
What is the recoli adjustment
A practitioner quickly pushes the vertebra into motion and then, instead of maintaining pressure, relies on a fast release
What did carver develop
How to adjust the lumbar spine as unit
What are the styles
Repostion the spine the logan basic technique applies light thumb pressure close to the sacrotuberous ligament to move the ascrum
Activatior technique makes use of a small spring-loaded instrument that looks like a small plunger with a hard sponge to deliver pressure
What is sham control for low back pain
11 single blind RCTS four showed no difference 3 show a benefit and 3 are dependent on the type but overall there is little significance
What is the meta analytic reviews
Most widely reported that concluded that manipulation is a short-term benefit, didn’t find any long term benefits at it a bigger picture and didn’t find anything which can be problematic in the bigger picture.
Neck pain and headache
Don’t them manipulate your neck could have a stroke widely reported that there are adveser effects there were two sham trials that showed benefits you just get short term relief
What are the adverse effects
138 serious complications more than 8 out of 10 was due to a cervical manipulation dense, locked in system dense fracture, unstable C1 and C2
