tic does not treat or manage symptoms or disease.This brings us back to the question; What is a subluxation? Stephensons Chiropractic Textbook gives us a definition (Art.26 pg. 2). It is a definition that has and will continue to be all encompassing and complete. A subluxation is the condition of a vertebra which has lost its proper juxtaposition with the one above or the one below, or both; to an extent less than a luxation; This part explains that a subluxation occurs in the spinal column between two particular vertebra. The vertebra in question can either show hyper/hypomobility or fixation either in passive or active motion. This loss of juxtaposition(closeness/unity) implies also an occlusion of neural foramina, through which peripheral nerves make their exit. Which impinges nerves . Stephenson and BJ are both ridiculed for this statement, which seems to imply a pinching of a nerve. In fact, impingement simply means to have an effect on(4). No one, if they bothered to look up this definition, would dispute the fact that a subluxation has an effect on nervous tissue or vice vs. And interferes with the transmission of mental impulses. This is essential. It tells us that subluxations not only effect nervous tissue(increased/decreased amplitude of action potentials), but interfere with mental impulses. Mental impulse refers to a specific intelligent request from innate brain to tissue for a coordinated action/response.(5) Now, if this whole definition is taken together and thought given, it becomes evident that with loss of normal position and neural compromise, there will be myopathology, uneven paraspinal musculature. There will be histopathology, cellular damage. Kinesiopathology, proprioceptive joint damage, and many other pathologies that are not important enough to be included in a working definition of subluxation, because they are the outcome not the cause.Stephenson and BJ Palmers definition is simple, straig...
