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Dr. Strauss asks how you predict the changes.
Dr. Strauss,
The way to predict the changes is included in the discussion
on above ("When you see something like that you can bet
large amounts that there is a curve between L4 and L5 (a short
one but a curve none-the-less) that is just as important or
more important than the large obvious one. and In this case
there is also one between L5 and the sacrum that remains unseen
until the last film -- unless you know what to look for.")
To predict exactly what will happen at a given point you
need to measure the angles on the AP, on the lateral and the
axial spinal length of the segment of the curve involved (on
George's line) vs. the spinal length overall and their ratios
to what people of that height typically have when other measurements
approach a balanced ration (not a pathological balance).
It becomes even easier if you have standing and sitting
films with those measurements made on each. In that case the
changes occurring from position to position and their ratios
can even give you a prediction of the order in which they
will release.
The predictability is based on the vectors (remember direction
AND magnitude) of force required to hold these curves in those
positions. Remember that those vectors are torque, spiral
and stretch along the axis of the spine as well as right-left
and a-p.
The basic is that you can ask the question: This vertebra
is stuck forward and-- (the and can be any other direction
except posterior), if I bring it posterior enough so it works
properly in the lever system of the spine, what else will
the body change?
That what else will depend upon what is occurring elsewhere
in the spinal column or even possibly the legs, pelvis or
head. In cases of certain types of injury it can even depend
upon what is occurring in the arms.
For more data take a look at some of the other scolioses
on Dr. Kukurin's web
site.
Note the films at the bottom of the page.
Even though you only have the AP in the pre, you can still
see that L4-5 do not curve with the rest of the scoliosis
to the right and that L5 goes right on the sacrum while L4
goes left on L5. In the second film you can see that start
to show up.
As far as I know there were no sitting and standing and no
full spines so what you have is a lack of the rest of the
data needed to make accurate predictions for what will happen
in the rest of the curve because in the second pic L3 and
2 are straight in the curve which means there is at least
two more curves inside that original large curve to the right.
Hope this answers enough of your question Joe.
The two main points are that if you are truly correcting subluxations
you will most certainly get all the changes in structure people
are talking about ALONG WITH the changes in neurolgical tissues
and response.
the other is that the thing to work on AND THE ONLY THINGS
TO WORK ON are the things the body cannot self-correct and
not the things the body can self-correct but does not.
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