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events, papers, and concepts
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This update features information on
some papers presented at the April 2008 Sacro Occipital
Technique Research Society Mid-Year
Conference.
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Sacro Occipital Technique
Research Society Mid-Year Conference
Kansas City, Missouri, April 18-20, 2008
DeCamp
ON, Hochman JI, Provencher S, Unger-Boyd
M, Blum CL, Rozeboom D, Bio Forte-Katz C,
Farmer JA,, Johnstone HM, Blumenthal J, Shara
K, Madock D, Bloink T, Unger JF. Proceedings
of the Sacro Occipital Technique Research
Society Mid-Year Conference - Kansas City,
Missouri, April 18-20, 2008. J Vert Sublux
Res. 2008; May 7: 1-18.
Blum
CL. Introduction to the
Proceedings of the Sacro Occipital Technique
Research Society Mid-Year Conference - Kansas
City, Missouri, April 18-20, 2008. J Vert
Sublux Res. 2008; May 7: 1-2.
For Major Bertrand DeJarnette, DO, DC,
research was an essential part of being a
chiropractor and essential to the future of
the chiropractic profession. Always research
was his passion and in an interview in 1982
DeJarnette reiterated, "as far back as
chiropractic college, I saw the need for a
more scientific basis for chiropractic
theory. My own personal physical problems
had not been solved by medicine, osteopathy,
or chiropractic; so I began experimenting on
myself. I'm still at it, and I can see no
end of the need for continuous research in
chiropractic [1]."
In 1982 SORSI began a series of annual late
winter-early spring research conferences
which have continued every year until this
current Mid-Year Research Conference in
Kansas City, Missouri April 18-20, 2008. This year marks the first time
that abstracts
of the annual research conference proceedings
will be shared with the chiropractic
profession, for review, dissemination, and
in-depth study by their publication in the
Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research
1. DeJarnette
MB. Cornerstone. The American Chiropractor. Jul/Aug
1982; 82: 22,23,28,34.
2008
SORSI Mid-Year Conference
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Vertical Facial Dimensions Linked to Abnormal Foot
Motion
Rothbart BA., Journal American Podiatric Medical Association
May 2008;98(3):1-8.
 Background: 22 children from
Juetepec, Mexico, were studies to determine
whether a correlation exists among foot
motion, the position of the innominates, and
vertical facial dimensions.
Methods: 3 null hypotheses were
constructed and tested using the one-sample
t test. HoA: there is no relationship between
abnormal foot pronation and hip position; HoB: there is no relationship
between hip
position and vertical facial dimensions; and
HoC: there is no relationship between
abnormal foot pronation and vertical facial
dimensions.
Results: The 3 null hypotheses were
rejected.
Conclusions: An ascending foot
cranial model was theorized to explain the
findings generated from this study: 1) due to
the action of gravity on the body, abnormal
foot pronation (inward, forward, and downward
rotation) displaces the innominates
anteriorly (forward) and downward, with the
more anteriorly rotated innominate
corresponding to the more pronated foot; 2)
anterior rotation of the innominates draws
the temporal bones into anterior (internal)
rotation, with the more anteriorly rotated
temporal bone being ipsilateral to the more
anteriorly rotated innominate bone; 3) the
more anteriorly rotated temporal bone is
lined to an ipsilateral interior cant of the
sphenoid and superior canto of the maxilla,
resulting in a relative loss of vertical
facial dimensions; and 4) the relative loss
of vertical facial dimensions is on the same
side as the more pronated foot.
Order
Rothbart's Proprioceptive Insoles
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Chiropractic and Stroke: As
Chiropractors What are Our Responsibilities?
Charles Blum, Commentary in Journal of Vertebral Subluxation
Research
Over past few decades there has been looming
critiques of chiropractors possibly causing
strokes due to cervical manipulation or
adjusting. As physicians we have had
profound concerns that a therapeutic
intervention we could render may have
iatrogenic implications for a patient. Recent research has illustrated
that
chiropractic cervical treatment has NOT been
implicated in causing strokes. Apparently
any relationship is more coincidental since
incidental movements of the neck, such as
just turning to look in a car, might be
sufficient to cause a stroke in a susceptible
patient.
But, before we can breathe a sigh
of relief we now have the responsibility to
be aware of a stroke in progress or possible
warning signs that might pre-stage a stroke,
so we can protect our patients from a
life-threatening situation. Since many times
the same signs of an impending stroke (head
or neck pain) are the same signs that lead a
patient to seek chiropractic care this makes
the chiropractic clinical encounter important
not just from a treatment point of view but
to a history taking and diagnostic
opportunity to save our patient's life.
As we enter a new evidence based age of
chiropractic we need to be aware of warning
signs of a possible stroke in progress and
specific warning signs:
1. Patient dizziness, drop attacks, blurred
vision, difficulty speaking, swallowing, or
walking, along with nausea, numbness, and
nystagmus. Also any grouping of these signs
with a patient having had a history of an
infection, particularly an upper respiratory
tract infection should heighten the alert for
the doctor.
2. If a patient says "I have a pain in my
neck and/or head unlike anything I have ever
had before." Also we will need to increase
any investigation if the patient has
posterior head pain that is "throbbing,
steady or sharp."
3. We need thoroughly investigate young women
patients who report a new onset (within the
past year) of probable migraine with visual
aura, who smoke, and take oral contraceptives.
4. Blood laboratory analysis showing
increased levels of c-reactive protein,
homocysteine, and LDL versus HDL warrant
dietary modifications and exercise as well as
in unresponsive cases allopathic cotreatment.
Chiropractic
and Stroke: As Chiropractors What are Our Responsibilities?
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Sacro Occipital Technique
Organization - USA
is a non-profit, professional organization formed to promote the
awareness, understanding and utilization of the Sacro
Occipital Technique method of chiropractic as founded and
developed by Dr. Major Bertrand DeJarnette.
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