est in the profession. A push, by some to revamp and sugar coat this definition so that it sounds more educationally professional for insurance companies and mechanistic doctors. This new definition is termed vertebral subluxation complex, and has many different spins. An abnormal physical relationship between adjacent anatomical structures whose contiguous tissues are eliciting neurological responses that may be clinically manifested as symptoms, signs, functional changes, and morphological alterations of a disease state, but less than a complete disruption of a dislocation or fracture. These subluxations may anatomically exist in the static juxtaposition of related structures or within a point or portion of their biokinetic range of motion.(2). Subluxation is an aberrant relationship between two adjacent articular structures that may have functional or pathological sequelae, causing an alteration in the biomechanical and/or neurophysiological reflections of those articular structures and/ or other body systems that may be directly or indirectly affected by them.. (3) These are just two examples, but countless others exist. Basically these definitions are designed with the avarice and self-importance of the organizations in which they came from. These definitions are vague and technical. They do nothing to focus the profession, but rather are designed to play to mechanistic audiences. No where in these two examples is the spine or vertebra mentioned. This makes them incomplete at best, or else downright misleading. Subluxations can only occur between vertebra. No where else in the body is so much nervous tissue surrounded by two freely movable synovial joints. Any other location, in the body, is a misalignment and is not in the realm of chiropractic. The first example refers to the fact that subluxations create signs /symptoms and disease. Chiropractors know that this is not always the case and even if it was chiroprac...
