Neurology
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This paper discusses the several theories pertaining to the chiropractic adjustment, including the nerve compression theory, reflex theories, and pain relief theories. There is now sufficient scientific research to consider these theories reasonable working models to explain the effects of the adjustment but insufficient to consider them valid.
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Spinal manipulation is used therapeutically by a number of health professionals, including physical medicine specialists, physiotherapists, osteopaths and chiropractors. The different professions have different terminology for the ‘‘entity’’ or ‘‘manipulable lesion’’ that they manipulate. This manipulable lesion may be called ‘‘vertebral (spinal) lesion’’ by physical medical specialists or physiotherapists, ‘‘somatic dysfunction’’ or ‘‘spinal lesion’’ by osteopaths, and ‘‘vertebral subluxation’’ or ‘‘spinal fixation’’ by chiropractors.
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