The one-hour segment is titled "Wiped Out" and is part of the series "Lifeline", which presents the latest medical and health related breakthroughs of the day. The distinguished Medical Review Board at Discovery Health was compelled to produce the program when the research of Dr. Jay M. Holder on Torque Release Technique (TRT) appeared in the journal, Molecular Psychiatry. Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal publishes the medical Journal, Molecular Psychiatry, which is rated 2nd out of 80 journals in Psychiatry, 10th out of 201 journals in neurosciences and 20th out of 295 journals in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology according to Journal Citation Reports, who rates the world’s peer reviewed journals.

The TV documentary presents the role of the subluxation, as well as, methods invented and used by Dr. Holder, in dealing with addictions and compulsive disorders, at his Exodus Treatment Center in Miami Beach.

Many years ago, Dr. Holder performed the first government-funded study in Auriculotherapy to determine its outcome in addiction patients. During that study, Dr. Holder discovered that Auriculotherapy could electronically detect the level and listing side of the subluxation, as well as discovering the limbic system point. This led Dr. Holder to collaborate with researchers in human genetics and neuropharmacology to support the Brain Reward Cascade, and help establish the Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS) as a biogenic model.

The Brain Reward Cascade and RDS explain how persons can manifest a deficiency in their state of well-being, which interferes in their potential and quality of life. This work was eventually published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. Although RDS is estimated to be as high as 30% of the general population, persons suffering from addiction best represent RDS, as RDS is responsible for most addictions and compulsive disorders.

The five addictions include work, eating disorders, sex, gambling and drugs. Compulsive disorders include Attention Deficit Disorder, ADHD and Tourette’s Syndrome to mention a few. That is why Holder chose this population to measure the outcome of subluxation-based chiropractic in a randomized, blinded and placebo controlled clinical trial. At the time, Bob Duncan, PhD, and Biostatistition at the University of Miami School of Medicine, was asked to design the study by Dr. Holder, who was faculty at the University of Miami teaching pharmacology.

When the Discovery Channel first contacted Dr. Holder, he was skeptical. "I asked why they wanted to do a program on chiropractic. Their response was that they were excited about chiropractic’s role for something other than neck and low back pain. I certainly agreed and felt that although musculoskeletal conditions do well under chiropractic care, the last thing we needed was another study on neck and low back pain. It’s time to move on, and support with sound scientific research, the true broad-based scope of chiropractic practice, which lies in subluxation care providing fulfillment of human potential, state of well-being and quality of life", said Holder. It appears he was correct.

Dr. Holder also shared another thought, "I, and others were always warned by certain leaders in our profession, that if research on chiropractic were to be accepted by the main stream scientific community and ever get published in their journals, we must, at all costs, never invoke the term subluxation, the "S" word. I am proud and excited to tell you that in both the preparation of the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, as well as the journal, Molecular Psychiatry, the powers to be, had absolutely no problem with the "S" word. Their problem was with the term ‘chiropractic,’ in that it was not specific enough for them."

After the Miami Drug Court’s success in using Auriculotherapy as an alternative to incarceration for first offenders of drug related crimes, hundreds of drug courts were established across the nation. With the realization that Drug Courts would benefit from court ordered chiropractic care as well, Holder decided to prove it with a more comprehensive research design than he used with the previous Auriculotherapy study, thereby validating D.D. and B.J. Palmer’s claim that "Chiropractic would empty the prisons."

According to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, more people are in federal prison for a drug related crime than in the active military, and the leading cause of death and crime is drug related. Realizing that principled chiropractic required a computer upgrade from first century linear and mechanistic technique models, Holder reconfigured and created a non-linear, tonal and vitalistic technique model, to provide a subluxation-based protocol to execute the study. This technique model was Torque Release Technique (TRT).

According to Holder, "All chiropractic techniques work, however, they work better if they are delivered with a non-linear tonal model to avoid patient plateau." At first, Toggle Recoil by hand was chosen to provide the correction, because this method was considered a classic in chiropractic. However, to avoid difficulty and anticipated concerns in statistically measuring the hands, research design flaws, and interprofessional reproducibility, Dr. Holder was obliged to invent a device that totally reproduced what the hands were intended to perform in providing the Toggle Recoil thrust. Both the device known as the Integrator, and Torque Release Technique (TRT), were created for the sole purpose of conducting the study.

"It was never my intention to create TRT and the Integrator for seminars later, but thousands of chiropractors are sure glad I did," said Holder. The Integrator was the first adjusting instrument to apply for an FDA 510K, which was granted in 1995. That made the FDA the second U.S. Government agency, after Medicare, to recognize the subluxation, in that this 510K’s indication is for the "safe and effective correction of the vertebral subluxation."

The Discovery Health Channel production is the first non-agenda chiropractic documentary ever to be released on a major network. "This is a big break for chiropractors and their patients everywhere. Our success was made possible by the support, vision and direction of many special people and organizations, such as the Florida Chiropractic Society and the WCA", said Holder.

Dr. Holder is the Chairman of the WCA Council on Addictions and Compulsive Disorders, President of the American College of Addictionology and Compulsive Disorders and is in his 26th year of chiropractic practice. For more information contact the Holder Research Institute at: 305-535-8803 or visit their web site: www.torquerelease.com

The series LIFELINE will air the segment WIPED OUT on:

(ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN STANDARD)

May 12……..9 p.m. and midnite
May 13……..4 a.m.
May 18……..5 p.m.
May 27……...6 p.m.
Aug 2……….6 p.m.
Aug 3……….3 a.m.
Sept 5……….10 a.m., 3 p.m., 6 p.m.
Sept 6………..3 a.m.