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12-14-2004, 05:52 PM
Chiropractor aims to end pain without drugs, surgery
By Nancy Steele Brokaw
For The Pantagraph
Try this. Look straight ahead, shut your eyes and turn your head to the place where you would be looking directly over your right shoulder. Then, continuing to keep your eyes closed, move your head back to the position where your eyes are once again looking straight ahead. Open your eyes. Are you where you thought you'd be?
For most people, the answer is "yes." But because of a phenomenon known as proprioception, victims of an accident, particularly if it involves whiplash, may not be able to perform this simple task. Proprioception refers to the ability to sense the position, location, orientation and movement of the body and its parts.
According to chiropractor Robert "Bob" Hermann proprioceptive improvement is a benefit of chiropractic adjustment. Other benefits include aligning the vertebrae into better mechanical position, restoring normal range of motion to a joint and strengthening the muscles and ligaments that hold the joint in place.
While modern diagnostic tools such as MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) have dramatically changed some aspects of chiropractic care, Hermann says the basic technique of an adjustment has scarcely changed since it was invented, somewhat by accident, in 1895, by Daniel David Palmer.
Palmer, working in Iowa, did what Hermann calls "the first adjustment" on Harvey Lillard, the owner/operator of a janitorial company. At the time, Lillard had lost nearly all his hearing. After the adjustment, Lillard's hearing was restored and, according to Hermann, "a new healing art was born."
Palmer began rounding up people with hearing loss and soon discovered that, while in most cases he was not able to restore hearing, he was curing neck aches, backaches and headaches.
Although the act of replacing vertebrae into their proper position had been practiced for thousands of years, Palmer articulated, in a new way, the connections between misaligned bones, the nervous system and the functioning of the body. Palmer's system of adjustment became known as "chiropractic," meaning "done by hand."
Chiropractic adjustment (also called manipulation) is a "high velocity, low force procedure," Hermann says. "Most people think it's only spinal, but it can be any joint."
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By Nancy Steele Brokaw
For The Pantagraph
Try this. Look straight ahead, shut your eyes and turn your head to the place where you would be looking directly over your right shoulder. Then, continuing to keep your eyes closed, move your head back to the position where your eyes are once again looking straight ahead. Open your eyes. Are you where you thought you'd be?
For most people, the answer is "yes." But because of a phenomenon known as proprioception, victims of an accident, particularly if it involves whiplash, may not be able to perform this simple task. Proprioception refers to the ability to sense the position, location, orientation and movement of the body and its parts.
According to chiropractor Robert "Bob" Hermann proprioceptive improvement is a benefit of chiropractic adjustment. Other benefits include aligning the vertebrae into better mechanical position, restoring normal range of motion to a joint and strengthening the muscles and ligaments that hold the joint in place.
While modern diagnostic tools such as MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) have dramatically changed some aspects of chiropractic care, Hermann says the basic technique of an adjustment has scarcely changed since it was invented, somewhat by accident, in 1895, by Daniel David Palmer.
Palmer, working in Iowa, did what Hermann calls "the first adjustment" on Harvey Lillard, the owner/operator of a janitorial company. At the time, Lillard had lost nearly all his hearing. After the adjustment, Lillard's hearing was restored and, according to Hermann, "a new healing art was born."
Palmer began rounding up people with hearing loss and soon discovered that, while in most cases he was not able to restore hearing, he was curing neck aches, backaches and headaches.
Although the act of replacing vertebrae into their proper position had been practiced for thousands of years, Palmer articulated, in a new way, the connections between misaligned bones, the nervous system and the functioning of the body. Palmer's system of adjustment became known as "chiropractic," meaning "done by hand."
Chiropractic adjustment (also called manipulation) is a "high velocity, low force procedure," Hermann says. "Most people think it's only spinal, but it can be any joint."
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