D.D. Palmer stated that bones go out of place affecting the nerves. That means structure is key, not nerves (despite what followers-on have said). Through the years, there have been several deviations from this course due to inconsistency of results.

No nerve- or muscle-based theories -- chiropractic, PT or other -- have ever given a consistent set of results and so are suspect.

I'm not knocking the generation of these theories for they are an attempt to search and find something better. However, there is something better, that works consistently and predictably, and it's available right now.

Let me present the following anatomical observations:

Regarding displacement of a vertebra: If a vertebra displaces to the left, there are muscles in the body to pull it to the right and reposition it. (At this point, we are just considering the anatomical observations. We are not now concerned with the fact that the muscles often seem not to do so or the reasons they do not do so.)

Likewise, if a vertebra displaces to the right, there are muscles in the body to pull it to the left to reposition it. If a vertebra displaces posterior, you have muscles in your body to pull them anterior and reposition them.

In the lumbars, you have the psoas to pull it anterior and reposition it every time you stand from sitting. In the midlumbar to midthoracic region, you have the diaphragm to pull it anterior every time you breathe. Test this by pinching your nose shut, closing your mouth, sucking in and noticing the effect of the diaphragm on your spine.

Above that, you have various muscles to pull the cervicals and upper thoracics anterior. Test this by putting your head half in flexion, putting a palm on your forehead and then attempt to flex against the resistance of your palm. Notice the pull of the muscles.

If a vertebra displaces anterior, there are no muscles that pull posterior to reposition it.

The muscles of the back are oriented vertically and horizontally. They pull inferior-superior, left-right and on all sorts of angles between those two -- but they DO NOT pull posterior. To pull posterior, there would have to be a muscle that attaches from the vertebra to something stable behind the vertebra (just skin back there for me).

Many would object to that observation, stating the erector spinae, longisimus, multifidus and other muscles pull posterior. But they are not looking at the orientations of those muscles and their directions of pull.

People who do not exactly observe the orientations and directions of pull of the muscles are misled by what the back muscles seem to do. Those muscles pull down on the back of the vertebrae rotating them into extension. This tilts the body posterior and seems to bring the vertebrae posterior, but it does not.

What you have here is a missed observation: Bodies can self-correct vertebral subluxations displacing laterally and posterior, but cannot self-correct vertebrae displaced anterior. (Rarely do they just go anterior; it is usually anterior-left, -right-rotated etc., but it is the anterior component the body cannot self-correct.)

This is not a theory, but rather a huge anatomic and physilogic fact omitted from chiropractic (as well as osteopathy and every other method of structural health care). It means that the twisting, tilting and malpositioning of vertebrae in directions other than anterior is to compensate for vertebrae displaced anterior because the body cannot self-correct the positions of those anteriorly displaced vertebrae.

It also leads to a single statement that describes what chiropractors need to do to correct bodies: Correcting body structure consists of repositioning subluxated bones the body cannot self-correct because it has no muscles pulling in the direction needed to bring the bone back to its proper position.

The key would be to do just that and leave everything else alone so the body could/can self-correct the rest.

The discovery of this basic finding leads to being able to consistently and predictably accomplish the promise of chiropractic on everyone walking in the door with structural problems. This statement is very broad, but it has been demonstrated over the last dozen or so years.

With treatment according to the Advanced BioStructural Correction (ABC) protocol, the body self-corrects so well and fast it's difficult to believe for those with no direct experience using it.

Changes in posture and structural alignment that you'll see in your patients using ABC would be impossible if any of the ligament or muscle theories were correct. Instead, what you have is a simple and direct structural change that actually does what chiropractic has been saying could be done consistently and predictably with no exceptions when there are no fractures, infections, cancers or like anomalies.

Of course, one time through the ABC protocol does not fix everything, but it does more in four minutes than any other method of structural health care can do in months, even years.

The x-rays shown are by Dr. George Kukrin (who has the ABC "At-Home Seminar" and whom I've never personally met), demonstrating that the ligament and muscle theories cannot be valid.

After more than a decade (1986-99) of chiropractic of specific and non-specific techniques with no change, three treatments with the ABC protocol in Dec./Jan. and the patient changed so much visibly that Dr. Kukrin decided to do a set of cervical films to see what the changes were on the inside. If this change was made after such a short time, you can count on three things:

1. The ligament reshaping theory is dead. There was no ligament "reshaping" over the course of the week (three visits could not do it according to the theory, so that theory is proven invalid because this change could not have occurred if it were true).

2. Exercises were not needed (there were none during ABC). The change was strictly from the adjustments. Since this change would be impossible according to that theory and anyone can reproduce these results in short times, the theory can be deemed incorrect.

3. The observations and actions of Advanced BioStructural Correction are more valid than other technology available in chiropractic or any discipline of structural healing at this time. There are no theories in ABC, just a set of observations anyone can confirm on his or her own and a set of actions that bring about a consistent and predictable result.

I invite anyone to call 203/878-4609 and learn the first rib maneuver which will have immediate effect on patients and D.C.s (it is one of the few things you can do yourself and get the same results):

*** Breathing easier...

*** Nasal passages more open...

*** Shoulder will immediately not slump forward...

*** Legs will be looser on squatting and moving

...and more, but the list is pretty long.

Find out that chiropractic does work consistently and predictably on every body that walks in your door with structural problems. Let's get the profession rolling to where it should be by getting consistent and predictable results.