• Anderson RT

• Cervical Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging
• Palmer Technique
• Upper Cervical Technique

To test the monocausal theory which identifies the atlas as fundamental to all disease processes, the records of 500 chiropractic patients were examined. Statistical evaluation confirms certain basic upper-cervical assumptions, namely, that disorders in one part of the spinal column may be reflected in pathology in another part. In particular, the cervical spine is more likely than the lower back to be implicated in visceral-organic disorders. Atlas misalignments, however, do not correlate with the presence or absence of symptomatology, and thus, the single most fundamental postulate of upper-cervical theory failed in this test.

Author keywords: chiropractic theory, upper-cervical theory, type O disorders, type M disorders

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