Session 3

Question 1

When was the first adjustment and who was the patient?

Answer 1

Reportedly on September 18, 1895 on Harvey Lillard

Question 2

Meaning of the word ‘chiropractic’

Answer 2

“Hand” and “practical”

Or done by hand

Question 3

B.J.’s modifications to D.D.’s theory of chiro

Answer 3

• spine only
• later atlas/axis adjusting only
• introduced x-ray to chiro in 1910

Question 4

Shegataro Morikubo

Answer 4

• PSC graduate
• Tried for practicing medicine w/o a license
• Defense attorney Tom Morris that chiro was a distinct science, philosophy, and art from other healing approaches

Question 5

Tom Morris’s defense strategy

Answer 5

Definition of medicine - diagnose and treat disease

• Chiropractic was a “separate and distinct philosophy and practice” only interested in the nervous system, unlike medical physicians or osteopaths (circulatory system)
• Chiropractors analyze, not diagnose, the cause of disease

Question 6

The purpose of the Universal Chiropractor’s Association

Answer 6

Provide legal services for DCs arrested for unlicensed practice
Tried more than 3,000 cases

Question 7

Solon Langworthy

Answer 7

Wrote the first textbook on chiro “A Textbook of Modern Chiropractic”
Founded a college, organized first chiro association

Question 8

John Howard

Answer 8

• Argued that chiro should include elements of physical therapy (electrical therapy, heat, etc.)
• formed the National College of Chiro in Iowa (later moved to Chicago) with physiological therapeutics

Question 9

Sylva Ashworth

Answer 9

First woman chiro in Nebraska

Adjusted death row inmates

Question 10

Neurocalometer

Answer 10

• Beginning of the downfall of BJ’s influence in the field
• heat-sensing instrument introduced by BJ Palmer
• he insisted it was necessary for detection of subluxations
• must be leased

Question 11

What continued BJ Palmer’s downfall?

Answer 11

In 1934, advocated upper cervical adjusting only.
This point was not widely accepted among other practicing chiropractors who were having much success with manipulation of the entire spine.

Question 12

1972

Answer 12

Congress included chiropractic under Medicare

Question 13

Purpose of The National Institute for Neurological and Communicative Diseases and Stroke Conference in 1975

Answer 13

• Unbiased study about the fundamentals of spinal manipulation
• Wake up call to chiropractic community lacks research to prove the benefits of this

Question 14

Wilk vs. AMA

Answer 14

• antitrust suit - antitrust law ensures that large corps do not restrain trade over smaller organizations
• charged that AMA (and 14 other medical organizations) had a conspiracy to monopolize health care by making associations between MDs and DCs unethical
• 1987 - AMA found guilty of attempt to illegally destroy the profession of chiropractic through boycott