CJA Vol.16 Issue 2Your Association and You Principles, Prejudice and Peppercorns A Radiographic Spirit Level The Use of Nutritional Supplementation in
Chiropractic Practice-A Moral Dilemma Chiropractic and Athletic Health Lumbar Spine Structural Changes Associated with Leg
Length Inequalities ABSTRACTS PHILIP S. BOLTON This paper describes the construction of a spirit level for use in radiological examination of the human upright posture. The use of the spirit level to determine and draw a horizontal line within + 0.9 degrees of the actual horizontal is discussed. The determination of the line of gravity on radiographs of upright humans is briefly presented. INDEX TERMS: RADIOGRAPHY; SPINOGRAPH; POSTURE; X-RAY; GRAVITY. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1986 Jun;16(2):48-50 The Use of Nutritional Supplementation in Chiropractic Practice-A Moral Dilemma? JENNIFER R. JAMISON Traditionally chiropractic care, while diagnostically unlimited, is therapeutically confined to intervention techniques not involving surgery or drugs. As practitioners at the primary level of health care, chiropractors are involved in health promotion, disease prevention and therapeutic intervention. A therapeutic armamentarium of osseous adjustment, soft tissue work, nutritional supplementation, dietary and lifestyle advice provide chiropractors with intervention techniques adequate to function effectively at these levels of patient care. In view of the chiropractic profession's "drugless" philosophy, the use of nutritional supplements may, however, pose a moral dilemma. Chiropractors are, for example, diagnostically competent to assess patients presenting with intermittent claudication. Depending on the severity of the condition, chiropractors are also therapeutically equipped to manage peripheral vascular disease provided they are prepared to prescribe pharmacologically active doses of nutrients. Dietary advice alone constitutes inadequate intervention in cases with established pathology. INDEX TERMS: NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS; VITAMIN E; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; DRUG THERAPY; CHIROPRACTOR. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1986 Jun;16(2):51-7 Chiropractic and Athletic Health RICHARD A. AMES The relationship of athletic health and chiropractic treatment is discussed. Biomechanical, kinesiological and neurological systems are reviewed in relation to athletic performance and injury. Chiropractic care in treatment and prevention of athletic injury is concluded to be important because of its basis on the mechanical, kinesiological and neurological function of the human body. INDEX TERMS: ATHLETE; CHIROPRACTIC; BIOMECHANICS; KINESIOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; POSTURE; TREATMENT; PREVENTION. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1986 Jun;16(2):58-64 Lumbar Spine Structural Changes Associated with Leg Length Inequality LYNTON G.F. GILES and JAMES R. TAYLOR Radiographic asymmetric structural changes in the lumbar spine, which appear to be correlated with pelvic obliquity and the consequent postural lumbar scoliosis, are described in nonacute low-back-pain patients with (i) a leg length difference of greater than 9 mm and (ii) no leg length difference (0-3 mm). With leg length inequality, concavities in the end-plates of lumbar vertebral bodies, wedging of the fifth lumbar vertebrae, and traction spurs appear. No relationship to symptoms is suggested. INDEX TERMS: LUMBAR SPINE; POSTURAL SCOLIOSIS; PELVIC OBLIQUITY; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; ADAPTIVE CHANGES. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1986 Jun;16(2):65-8 |
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