Assessment of forces during side-posture adjustment with the use of a table-embedded force plate: Reference values for education.

Objective: Force-sensing treatment tables are becoming more commonly used by chiropractic educational institutions. However, when a table-embedded force platform is the sole measurement method, there is little information available about what force-time values instructors and students should expect for side-posture spinal manipulative thrusts. The purpose of this report is to provide force-time values recorded with such a system during side-posture manipulation with human recipients.

Spinal Kinematic Assessment of Chiropractic Side-Posture Adjustments: Development of a Motion Capture System.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop a protocol and a data analysis system for the assessment of postures and movements of doctors of chiropractic during side-posture adjustments (SPAs), otherwise known as side-posture chiropractic spinal manipulation.

Methods: For this study, an experienced chiropractor performed Gonstead-style lumbar SPAs on 10 participants. We used an inertial measurement unit system to record spinal angular motions and analyzed data with a custom application written in Microsoft Excel.

Increasing the cervical and lumbar lordosis is possible despite overt osteoarthritis and spinal stenosis using extension traction to relieve low back and leg pain in a 66-year-old surgical candidate: a CBP case report.

[Purpose] To present the case of the dramatic relief of low back pain, leg pain and disability in an older female with osteoarthritis, lumbar spinal stenosis and hypolordosis of the cervical and lumbar spine. [Participant and Methods] A 66-year-old female presented with chronic low back pain, right leg pain, numbness and weakness. Despite being recommended for surgery, the patient sought alternative treatment.

Alleviation of neck pain by the non-surgical rehabilitation of a pathologic cervical kyphosis to a normal lordosis: a CBP case report.

[Purpose] To present a case of the therapeutic reversal of a cervical kyphosis into a lordosis in a patient who presented with neck pain and headaches. [Subject and Methods] A 24-year-old male irritated his neck while dancing. Upon examination it was revealed he had an excessive, 45 mm forward head translation and a 15° cervical kyphosis from C3-C6.