CJA Vol.15 Issue 4Where the Winners Are A New Challenge and an Old Tradition For Debate: An Introduction to Applied Spinal
Mechanics Low-Back Pain Associated with Leg Length
Inequality Chiropractic as Complementary Health Care ABSTRACTS For Debate: An Introduction to Applied Spinal Mechanics JOHN A. DULHUNTY New methods of investigation evolved over the past thirty years have elucidated the behaviour of complex systems. Applied spinal mechanics encompasses understanding of the complex systems that interact on the spine to influence structural-functional interrelationships. The basis of applied spinal biomechanics is the recognition that 'structuring' of the spine-the many circular, interlocking, sometimes time-delayed relationships among its components-is often just as important in determinant its shape and function as the individual components themselves. This has profound importance, not only to the updating of chiropractic principles, but also, in its practical application, to the understanding of the development, function and dysfunction of the spine. INDEX TERMS: APPLIED SPINAL MECHANICS, SUBLUXATION, BIOFEEDBACK, BIOMECHANICS, CHIROPRACTIC. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1985 Dec;15(4):127-34 Low-Back Pain Associated with Leg Length Inequality LYNTON G.F. GILES and JAMES R. TAYLOR The possible association between pelvic obliquity and low-back pain is investigated in low-back pain patients and a control population. A precise method of erect posture radiography is used to carefully measure leg length inequality in these two groups. An age-related response of the postural scoliosis to shoe-raise is noted. The results of shoe-raise therapy with and without lumbosacral manipulation are compared, and preliminary results are reported. INDEX TERMS: LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; LOW-BACK PAIN; RADIOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENT. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1985 Dec;15(4):135-45 (Reprinted with permission from Spine 1981; 6:510-21) Chiropractic as Complementary Health Care JENNIFER R. JAMISON Chiropractors in Australia offer complementary conventional health care. Chiropractic practitioners are opposed to any scope of practice statement which is so broad as to imply comprehensive health care or so limited as to confine their health care to the spine. The limitation of chiropractic scope of practice has been legally defined. Further enunciations of the profession's scope of practice should serve to clarify, for patients, services which are available from chiropractic clinics. Such enunciations should therefore preferably be expressed as services which are available. Professional manifestos on chiropractic scope of practice, it is suggested, should confine themselves to inclusions; exclusions should rather be left as the prerogative of statutory bodies. The virtue of a professional chiropractic scope of practice statement lies in its provision of a standardised menu of services which referring professionals and private patients can consult. INDEX TERMS: SCOPE OF PRACTICE; CHIROPRACTIC; CONVENTIONAL HEALTH CARE; COMPLEMENTARY HEALTH CARE. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1985 Dec;15(4):146-52 |
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