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CHIROPRACTIC DEFINITIONS
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Activator Adjusting Instrument
A handheld instrument used by chiropractors who assert that slightly misaligned vertebrae can be tapped back into place.
Applied Kinesiology
An unscientific method of testing muscle strength to detect the presence of disease, vitamin deficiency, and other problems.
Spinal Adjustment
A chiropractic term that most chiropractors use to describe whatever method(s) they use to correct spinal problems, whether by hand or with an instrument. Some use the term "adjustment" and others "manipulation."
Sacrum
The triangular bone that serves as a base for the spinal column and connects the pelvic bones.
Straight Chiropractor
Chiropractors who tend to cling to chiropractic's original doctrine that most health problems are caused by misaligned spinal bones ("vertebral subluxations") and are correctable by manual manipulation of the spine.
Subluxation
A condition, visible on x-ray films, in which the bony surfaces of a joint no longer face each other exactly but remain partially aligned.
Vertebra
Bony segment of the spine that encircles and helps protect the spinal cord and nerves. The plural of vertebra is vertebrae.
Vertebral Subluxation Complex
A "modern" chiropractic term for the chiropractic subluxation.
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