Chiropractic: Physical Effects of Chiropractic Therapy on Postural Balance

AutorJens Anders Dag Kjersem
CargoMoere Og Romsdal, Norway
Páginas413-450
Anuario Jurídico y Económico Escurialense, LI (2018) 413-450 / ISSN: 1133-3677
Chiropractic: Physical Effects of
Chiropractic Therapy on Postural Balance*
Jens Anders DAG KJERSEM, DC
Moere Og Romsdal, Norway
Abstract: While this research was completed nearly a decade ago, for private
health reasons, it was never been published, presented at any conference or
submitted to any other award contest. The paper is concerned with the effects of
general chiropractic therapy related to the states of normal and abnormal
human postural physiology. In this research, the effects of general chiropractic
therapy on patients’ postures were recorded by taking notes of actual physical
postural changes measured in postural balance of 896 patients against the force of
gravi ty wi th an anatomical level. Patients, who were failing to produce postural
changes after ordinary hands-only chiropractic therapy, were later treated with
percussion hammers, the Trigger Point Hammer (TPH) and TriggerCiser (TC).
After general chiropractic therapy, which includes hands-only articular
manipulation, instrumental percussion therapy and administration of heel-
lifts, most patients (99, 11 %) either had or naturally assumed improved postural
balance. Said results of postural effects were physically displayed with an
anatomical level and are described in this paper. The research recorded how
the different states of postural physiology react to ordinary hands-only
chiropractic therapy, including administration of heel-lifts. This research also
aimed to determine whether some percussion hammers, the previously mentioned
TPH and TC, were appropriate instruments to use in normal clinical chiropractic
practice. Said percussion instruments were used with specific directional thrusts and
several gross manual movements against affected tissues in order to activate
dysfunctional tissue sensors, but also mobilise tissue structures. Using thrusts in
specific directions made treatments cautious, as proper direction, which lessened
* Este artículo obtuvo, el pasado año académico 2016-2017 el quinto Premio Reina María
Cristina, modalidad de Quiropráctica, patrocinado por el Banco de Santander. El jurado
estuvo compuesto por: Dª. Ana Paula Albuquerque Facchinato Campos, Coordinadora de la
Formación Clínica de la Facultad de Quiropráctica de Los Angeles. Southern California
University of Health Sciences, presidenta; D. Danilo Messa da Silva. Vocal. Decano de
Quiropráctica de la Universidad Feevale, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil, vocal; D. Fernando
Redondo Moreira de Azevedo, Decano de Quiropráctica de la Universidad Anhembi-Morumbi,
Sao Paulo, Brazil, vocal, y D. Ricardo Fujikawa, Director de los Estudios del Madrid College
of Chiropractic-Real Centro Universitario “Escorial-María Cristina”.
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the structural crookedness, seemingly reduced tissue tension while also triggering
increased motion and circulation. While the impacts of the thrusts clea rly irritated
affected tissues, proper direction of the therapeutic thrusts seemingly reduced
tension in the supportive connective tissues while they activated dysfunctional
sensory receptors in both superficial and deep tissues. As postural balance
clearly improved by the activation of the sensory receptors, this effect also
increased structural motion and circulation.
The instrumental treatments also included vibratory effects, which came
from the high-speed percussions of the built-in mechanical mechanism in
said instruments. In general, both ordinary hands-only chiropractic therapy
as well as the instrumental thrusts/vibrations made by arm movements in specific
directions produced improvements of postural balance, apparently from activating
normal functions in sensory receptors. The activation of the sensory receptors
was indicated by the measurements of anatomical positional changes in postural
balance (pelvic alteration) against the force of gravity. The measurements of said
structural changes were done with an anatomical level before and after therapy.
Although the aforementioned percussion instruments work differently
from other chiropractic instruments of the same type, they do not create any
lasting side-effects, unless they are overused. In patients who were resistant
to postural changes after ordinary hands-only chiropractic therapy, the instruments
were used several times with various subjectively selected forces, both against
previously treated tissues and other seemingly less affected tissues. The
effects of the treatments produced postural changes, which were controlled by
an anatomical level to be symmetrical improvements. As these improvements
took place only after inflamed tissues had been properly treated, the sensory
receptors of these tissues were conceivably made inactive by compressions of
inflammatory swellings. Thus, compression of inflammatory swelling against
sensory receptors is beyond doubt the most common cause of dysfunctional sensory
receptors resulting in poor postural coordination.
Sumario:
I. Introduction.
II. Methodology.
III. Discussion.
IV. Conclusion.
Recibido: junio 2017.
Aceptado: septiembre 1017.
AJEE, LI (2018) 413-450/ISSN 1133-3677
I. INTRODUCTION
Human physiology has advanced its functions since the dawn of time and
has evolved to possess inborn homeostatic functionalities, some of which are
designed to cope with the excess burdens of bearing the body weight in various
positions, including all of those encountered in daily life, even bearing children.
Therefore, a proper posture has for centuries been regarded as important for weight-
bearing functions in the body. Medical and chiropractic practitioners have equally
regarded proper posture to be important for many health reasons. Governments,
on the other hand, have looked at the costs of poor posture, neck and back
pain in official health systems. The costs of musculoskeletal disorders have
skyrocketed and do not seem to be slowing down. Posture is one of the
pillars of neuromusculoskeletal healthcare and improvements in posture ought
to have an impact on many musculoskeletal disorders.
In this research, a newly discovered physiological autonomy of postural
balance has been divulged as a primeval fundamental function, which even
precedes deformations of scoliotic compensatory reactions against spinal discus
protrusions into the spinal canal. The autonomic postural balancing effects show
that the body has an innate “gyro-like” function, which automatically balances
the upright human body in a vertical position with perfect horizontality of the
transverse iliac crest line (TICL) to establish preceding functions of bearing loads
against the force of gravity. By discovering the perfection of this autonomic
function, we have learned about the remarkable specificity of the body’s
coordinative postural balance. This precise coordination of posture with a
particularly specific synchronization of the pelvic structures making up the
perfect TICL horizontality is wholly maintained by homeostasis and it seemingly
takes place in all humans. These facts reveal that the function of maintaining the
TICL perfectly horizontal is of fundamental importance in human physiology, and
it appears that the homeostatic maintenance of this specific horizontality is one of
the most central functions in the body and it certainly affects chiropractic therapy.
Chiropractic therapy generally treats one, two or sometimes even three areas
of inflamed tissues, often referred to as subluxations. The tissues surrounding

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