January 2005, Vol. 15, No. 1 Body Weighting for Postural/Structural Correction INTRODUCTION The use of head and body weighting, for the purpose of postural and structural correction, is becoming increasingly popular with Chiropractors. Unfortunately, good objective information regarding its history and use are hard to find. Because of this, I have taken the time to…
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Click here to download the PDF version of The Sixteen Aberrations of the Cervical Curve and Their Ideal Corrective Traction Setting. INTRODUCTION For all of our practicing careers as chiropractors (21 yrs for DWM & 6 years for DEH), we have endeavored to improve our patient’s lateral spinal curvatures as a primary outcome of care. Most…
DetailsINTRODUCTION A condition of altered global joint position/posture commonly exists in the cervical spine. Approximately 66 percent of the population or more have the condition of anterior head translation either with or without symptoms.1 This structural aberrant posture is also known as head protrusion or forward head posture and has been linked to and associated with: tension,…
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INTRODUCTION There exists a dilemma within the clinical considerations involving the rehabilitation of the normal cervical lordosis. Should the doctor be utilizing ligamentous remodeling traction and postural neuromuscular re-education to reduce the forward head posture, or should the prudent clinician be concentrating his efforts on the correction of the normal cervical 63 degree arc of…
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INTRODUCTION There is ample evidence in the literature that abnormalities of global posture can account for spinal histopathology, myopathology, neuropathophysiology and kinesiopathology.(1) There is also increasing evidence that the correction of global posture could have strong implications for the prevention of disc, ligament, myofascial and bony degenerative changes.(1) The case report presented here demonstrates the…
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