The American Chiropractor

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Worms will not eat living wood where the vital sap is flowing; rust will not hinder the opening of a gate when the hinges are used each day. Movement gives health and life. Stagnation brings disease and death. – Chinese Medicine proverb A subluxation is an area of stagnation: stagnated nerve impulses, energy and body structures. The job of the chiropractor is to locate and correct subluxations, per-mitting energy, healing and life to flow.

Why don’t chiropractors get consistently fabulous results? Why do we fail with some patients? Why do others stop making progress (plateau)? The answer, in many cases, is that we fail to address the fact that subluxations are state (and posture) specific.

Chiropractors often adjust people while they are lying on a table – but who gets subluxated lying on a table? Too often – after the patient gets off the table and moves, bends and turns – the pain, limitation and dysfunction, in short, their subluxations, reappear.

Why is that? It’s because subluxations can be sneaky little things. They can hide in our posture and in our movement; they can hide in our thoughts as we enter different mental states.

Life is motion and some subluxations only reveal themselves while a person is in motion – moving, walking, sitting, standing, in an odd position; Koren by Tedd Koren, D.C.

Specific Technique (KST) refers to this as the posture of subluxation (POS).

Ignoring the POS can lead to frustration in clinical practice. We see it all the time: the patient gets a great table adjustment but when they get up they still are in pain or dysfunction when they move a certain way.

Subluxations can be emotional. For example, a person in a stressful marriage may subluxate when they think of their spouse, a person suffering from allergies may subluxate when they think about their allergy, a child with dyslexia may subluxate when trying to read.

We’ve found that adjusting subluxations while the person is thinking about someone who causes an emotional stress, thinking about an allergy or trying to read could break the “reflex” that causes stress and their relationship, allergy or dyslexia may completely resolve.

We repeatedly find that for the most successful care, a chiropractor should check and adjust patients as they assume different postures so as to reveal their hidden subluxations.

This begs the question – how do you find those hidden subluxations? To do that you need to do a little detective work.

Patient: “Doctor, it hurts when I do that.”
Doctor: “So don’t do that.”
That joke notwithstanding, we want patients to “do
that.”
Some POS are obvious: if a person was injured in an
auto accident you may need to check and adjust them
as they are sitting (if you want to get dramatic you can
put their hands on an imaginary steering wheel). Then
check and adjust what is revealed.

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