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This is a presentation about animal chiropractic
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Welcome to the world of • Animal Chiropractic! • What do I have to do to become an animal chiropractor – certification and the law • Why would I want to add animal chiropractic to my practice – referrals • Working with veterinarians • 9.2 million horses in the US • 73 million dogs, 90 million cats, 139 million freshwater fish, 9 million saltwater fish, 16 million birds, 18 million small animals and 11 million reptiles
South Carolina Veterinary Board Rules & Regulations Veterinarians may delegate the performance of procedures, therapeutic options and alternate therapies, under certain conditions, including acupuncture, manipulation and adjustment, magnetic field therapy, holistic medicine, homeopathy, herbology/naturopathy, massage, and physical therapy Artificial insemination Animal owner or regular employee
ASSOCIATIONS:• American Veterinary Chiropractic Association animalchiropractic.org• International Veterinary Chiropractic Association ivca.deSCHOOLS: optionsforanimals.com animalchiropracticeducation.com ce.parker.edu/programs/animal-chiropractic-program/ healingoasis.edu
Research in Animal Chiropractic BIOMECHANICAL Henderson, DC, PhD, Cramer DC, PhD. Rat Model yields evidence of biomechanical basis for subluxation, JACA; 2004 Rat model, effects of hypomobility, osteophytes begin to form after 1 week Chapman – Smith White Rats of Davenport loss of fxn and then fixation leads to osteoarthritis Cramer JMPT Gapping breaks up adhesions restablishing joint motion
Research in Animal Chiropractic •A Preliminary Study of the Effect of Manual Chiropractic Treatment on the Splenius Muscle in Horses When Measured by Surface Electromyography. Equine Veterinary Journal, 47: 18. doi: 10.1111/evj.12486_41, Langstone, J., Ellis, J. and Cunliffe, C. (2015), • Effect of chiropractic manipulations on the kinematics of back and limbs in horses with clinically diagnosed back problems, Equine Veterinary Journal, Volume 40, Issue 2, March 2008, Pages: 153–159, C. B. GOMEZ ALVAREZ, J. J. L'AMI, D. MOFFATT, W. BACK and P. R. van WEEREN • Long-term Follow-up of Manipulative Treatment in a Horse with Back Problems, Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series A, Volume 50, Issue 5, June 2003, Pages: 241–245, M. J. Faber, P. R. Van Weeren, M. Schepers and A. Barneveld
Research in Animal Chiropractic ParaspinalMuscle Spindle Response to Intervertebral Fixation and Segmental Thrust Level During Spinal Manipulation in an Animal Model., Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2015 Jul 1;40(13):E752-9, Reed WR, Pickar JG.,
Basic Equine Anatomy 7 Cervicals 18 Thoracics 6 Lumbars 5 Sacral 15-25 Coccygeal Arabians less vertabrae
http://www.biosphera.com.br/veterinary-horse equine-anatomy.asp
Chiropractic & the Stay Apparatus in Horses • Horses can stand on their feet for long periods, longer than other domestic animals. • Rest & doze and still be prepared take flight in a second's notice if need be. If they were lying down when a predator arrived, the time it would take to get to their feet and get moving could cost them their lives. •The stay apparatus consists of ligaments and tendons that stabilize all the joints of the forelimb and the lower joints (the fetlock and pastern) of the hind limb. Minimal muscular activity is needed to hold tension on these ligaments and tendons, which in turn prevent flexion of the joints and collapsing of the leg. This allows the horse to balance its weight on its legs almost as if they were legs of a chair If the horse is subluxated it compromises the efficency of the stay apparatus hence the horse doesn’t get the necessary rest relax it needs AND it compromises the associated ligaments, tendons, joints!!!!!
Chiropractic & the Stomatognathic System in the Horse Is a complex kinematic chain that involves the teeth and dento-alveolar joints, temporo-mandibular joint (TMJ), the skull, jaw, hyoid apparatus, sternum, and all of their muscular and ligamentous attachments. Functionally, the connections of the dura mater to the skull, first two cervical vertebrae and associated structures, can mechanically engage the remainder of the spine through to the sacrum, which is the site of the most distal duralattachments. Therefore, aberrations of skull and TMJ function can potentially have repercussions for locomotion and posture far beyond the direct inputs to the vestibular nuclei from the trigeminal afferents of the TMJ.
BASIC CANINE ANATOMY 7 Cervicals 13 Thoracics 7 Lumbars 3 Sacral Coccygeal
BASIC FELINE ANATOMY 7 Cervicals 13 Thoracics 7 Lumbars 3 Sacral Coccygeal
Foundational Realms of Chiropractic Detection and Correction the Equine Subluxation Jay Komarek Chiropractor
If after studying the Philosophy, Science and Art of Chiropractic, you are not left with your jaw dropped, slack, wide open, you do not know Chiropractic well enough.
Many Realms • Philosophy • General Systems theory Introduction • Physics, Its value within our philosophy • Wave Dynamics and Momentum • Open Systems and Closed systems in neurology • Resonance
Where does the VALUE of Chiropractic Exist Exactly? Our value exists at many realms within our Philosophy, Science and Art. Is It Meaningful, Reasonable and Plausible?
Understanding General Systems Theory • Developed by biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy in 1936 • Need for a theory to guide research in several disciplines because he sawstriking parallels among them. • Ifmultiple disciplines focused their research and theory development efforts, they would be able to identify laws and principles which would apply to many systems. • Allows scholars and scientist to make sense of system characteristics such as wholeness,differentiation, order, equifinality, progression and others. (equi-finality -Noun, the property of having the same effect or result from different events) From his book General System theory: Foundations, Development, Applications: “It seems legitimate to ask for a theory, not of systems of a more or less special kind, but of UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES applying to systems in general.”
The Major Premise A Universal Intelligence is in all matter and continually gives to it all its properties and actions, thusmaintaining it in existence.
Most of what I have learned about Subluxation I have learned from horses.
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force…we must assume behind this force the EXISTENCE of a CONSCIOUS and INTELLIGENT MIND. This mind is the matrix of all matter. Max Planck, Founder of Quantum Theory
Physics opens a doorway for Chiropractic providing a framework for a discussion about the realm of intelligence that inhabits all matter. Physics has begun to navigate the empirical and non-empirical realms.
“Life and consciousness go all the way down to the tiniest bits of matter. Innate Intelligence is unique to complexity of matter that reaches a threshold of complexity, whereas it can create its own parts and distinguish self from other.” Simon Senzon, Chiropractor and Historian
Vibration, tone, energy and frequency Why is this important? “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Nikola Tesla
P 5. Universal Expression. Force is manifested as organization in matter; all matter has organization, therefore there is universal intelligence expressed in all matter.
The illustration shows two nerve signals passing through each other completely unhindered. This confirms the theory that the signal is made up of waves in the form of a sound pulse, a soliton, which moves along the nerve membrane. As the sound pulse moves along the nerve pathway, the membrane changes locally from liquid (green) to more solid (red) form. The membrane is slightly compressed, and a voltage pulse is produced by the piezoelectric effect. Niels Bohr Institute Credit: Marie DyekjærEriksen, NBI
The Soliton Wave When the sound pulse moves through the nerve pathway, the membrane changes locally from a liquid to a more solid form. The membrane is compressed slightly, and this change leads to an electrical pulse as a consequence of the piezoelectric effect. "The electrical signal is thus not based on an electric current but is caused by a mechanical force," points out Thomas Heimburg. Thomas Heimburg, along with Professor Andrew Jackson, first proposed the theory that nerves function by sound pulses in 2005. Their research has since provided support for this theory, and the new experiments offer additional confirmation for the theory that nerve signals are sound pulses.
D.D. Palmer emphasized the importance of “tone” in the dynamics of health and disease. “Life is an expression of tone. Tone is the normal degree of nerve tension. Tone is expressed in function by normal elasticity, strength, and excitability…the cause of disease is any variation in tone.”
The Subluxation Is In The Impulse Functional discordance of sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves causes autonomic imbalance. DYSPONESIS:A condition named by chiropractors to describemisdirected physical reactions to various stimuli (i.e., emotions, bodily sensations, environmental events, and thoughts) and the effects of these reactions throughout the body. Physicians Whatmore and Kohli, who first described dysponesis, observed that “Most diseases consist of physiologic reactions that lead to organ dysfunction. These physiologic reactions constitute the response of the organism to some noxious agent, whether microbial, chemical, or mechanical.” DYSAUTONOMIA: The Nervous System become either excitatory orinhibitory DYSKENISIA: Movement disorders
Why is this so significant? • Action potentials travelling along a neuron results in a slight increase in temperature followed by a decrease in temperature. The decrease during the second phase of the action potential is not explained by the Hodgkin-Huxley model. (electrical charges traveling through a resistor always produce heat). • Travelling solitons do not lose energy in this way. • It has also been observed that a signal travelling along a neuron results in a slight local thickening of the membrane and a force acting outwards. This too is not explained by Hodgkin-Huxley. The soliton model explains this. • The traveling soliton locally changes density and thickness of the membrane, and since the membrane contains many charged and polar substances, this will result in an electrical effect, akin to piezoelectricity. Indeed such nonlinear sound waves have now been shown to exist at lipid interfaces that show striking similarity to action potentials (electro-opto-mechanical coupling, velocities, biphasic pulse shape, threshold for excitation etc) In short, nerves too tight or too loose effect the propagation of the wave, hence interference.
It is hard to jump in one end of pool without creating waves in the other end.
Momentum and Wave Motion “Everything flows, everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum swing manifest in everything.” What becomes apparent in taking care of living beings additionally are the waves, momentum and geometry that are in play when correcting a subluxation.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is • music in the spacing of the spheres. (Pythagoras 570 – 495 BC)
Non-linear Systems and Wave DynamicsWhat does this have to do with Chiropractic?
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. Stephen Hawking, Physicist
NEUROVERTEBRAL INFLUENCE UPON THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM: SOME OF THE SOMATO-AUTONOMIC EVIDENCE TO DATE PETER L. ROME “The autonomic nervoussystem is intimatelyresponsive to changes in the somatic activities of the body and while its connections with the somatic elements are not always clear in anatomical terms, the physiological evidence ofvisceral reflex activities stimulated by somatic events is abundant.
Horses can go from the extremes of vigilance to ease in a matter of moments.
I just never gave up!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WleKTUaBCIw
