MId Term Flashcards
Updated version of chiropractic
Chiropractic deals primarily with a vitalistic Philosophy of health that is concerned with the Science and Art of analyzing the structure of the body, primarily the spinal column, and its effect that it has on the function of the body, primarily the nervous system, and their combined effect on the physiological and biological components of the human body.
Define the word principle in chiropractic
A source or origin from which anything proceeds. A fundamental truth or a comprehensive doctrine.
Life principle:
Innate intelligence is the difference between life and death. Sometimes manifest itself to use the matter. If you don’t fix where the problem is, it will manifest someplace else.
How many principles are there in chiropractic?.
According to DD Palmer and BJ Palmer there are 33 statements explaining how chiropractic deals with things involved in it, or its basic tenets or construct.
Define Allopathy
The method of treatment practiced by recipients of the degree of doctor of medicine. System of medical treatment using remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease.
Define vitalism
the theory that activities of a living organism are under the guidance of an agency which has none of the attributes of matter or energy and not explained by chemistry or physics.
Define Atomism/mechanism
theory that the activities of living organisms are all explainable by use of chemistry and physics alone.
Define Innate intelligence
An intelligence or agency found in living things which coordinates and maintains active organization ( a fundamental core concept of vitalism)
Define homeostasis
The state of equilibrium of the body that is maintained by responses to ir’s (body) internal and external environment. All parts of the body functioning normal.
Disease (Vitalistic)
- Everything can be explained by physics and chemistry alone. Other factors influence us. - Basic Philosophy of chiropractic.
- Body is not just a matter, some energy or force exit
- life is expression of energy through living matter
- the intelligence for health comes from within
- disease (dis-ease) is a state of the body
- focus on wellness and what is means to be healthy
Disease is a condition of the body. (Vitalism/Atomism)
- everything can be explained by laws of physics and chemistry
- basic philosophic construct of medicine (Newtonian base: calculus, physics, Chem)
- body is atoms that can be changed. Rearranged for health by the use of chemistry (drugs), surgery, radiation, genetic engineering, inoculation, and vaccination
- life is the result of physical matter expressing itself
- the goal is produce “disease free” world (not necessarily health)
- Focus on sickness care
- disease is a condition of the body
- health comes from the outside
Give me one definition of the term chiropractic adjustment.
- Maneuver that is specific in direction, point of contact, amplitude and velocity. t is intended to correct a subluxation partly or wholly.
- It is a manual procedure that is designed to effect improvement in the neurological component of vertebral subluxation or joint dysfunction.
Manipulation
Passive manual maneuver during which a joint is quickly brought beyond its restricted physiologic range of movement and beyond it’s elastic barrier without exceeding the anatomic integrity
Palmer original version on Chiropractic
Chiropractic is a philosophy, science and art of things natural’ a system of adjusting the segments of the spinal column by hand only, for the correction of the cause of dis-ease.
List 4 stages of adaptation syndrome.
- STRESSOR ( alarm reaction) (physical, chemical or mental)
- PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION (resistance)
- EXHAUSTION (fatigue) - when the body can no longer adapt
- DEATH - exhaustion over time leads to death
GAS manifest itself always produces a clinical symbol. What is that symbol? (3 parts)
- Adrenal cortex enlarges
- Thyme shrinks / atrophies
- Ulceration and bleeding in stomach
