October 2003

'04 Summit to offer exclusive TRT program

Dr. Holder to present one‑day intensive session free to event attendees

In an innovative departure from its normal format, the World Chiropractic Alliance International Summit 2004 will offer four separate, concurrent programs on Friday, April 30. Throughout the second day of the event, participants will choose between four distinct presentations: the World Chiropractic Alliance, 2X+1 Chiropractic Mastermind, Family Practice and the Torque Release Technique (TRT) programs.

Each month, The Chiropractic Journal will focus on one of the four programs. This issue spotlights the Torque Release Technique (TRT) program presented by Jay M. Holder, D.C., TRT creator and President/Founder of the American College of Addictionology and Compulsive Disorders.

TRT is based on the understanding that all chiropractic techniques work. All first‑century chiropractic techniques are linear and mechanistic with few embracing a tonal model, says Dr. Holder. TRT is a subluxation based, non‑linear, vitalistic, tonal model that can be adapted to any first‑century chiropractic technique as a (computer upgrade.( The advantages to upgrading any first‑century full‑spine or upper cervical chiropractic technique through such a model are limitless. However, the main advantages include increasing treatment outcomes, patient satisfaction and prevention of (patient plateau.(

TRT incorporates the "Brain Reward Cascade," a mainstream scientific model of how neurophysiological mechanisms express a state of well‑being. According to this model, a subluxation‑free spine is essential to the expression of one's greatest potential. If subluxated, Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS) occurs. Combined together, Dr. Holder(s research on RDS and the Brain Reward Cascade establish the first scientific model of the subluxation(s role in state of well‑being and human potential to stand up to scientific scrutiny.

Dr. Holder teaches that "The nervous system records and memorizes everything it perceives, thereby requiring the Brain Reward Cascade system and the dorsal horns of the spinal cord to demand randomized (non‑linear) time sequence adjusting priorities. The nature of the nervous system(s tissue as a piezo‑electric gel establishes the Tonal model of chiropractic. This, as well as many other nervous system components, teach us that non‑linear (randomized) time sequence adjusting priorities are mandatory to any chiropractic technique protocol. Further, TRT methods prevent (patient plateau,( thereby removing the largest stumbling block to lifetime chiropractic care in the private practice setting. This allows the practice and its patient numbers to skyrocket.(

His involvement in the research and development of RDS and the Brain Reward Cascade led Holder to develop the Torque Release Technique, which uses the Integrator, a specially designed hand‑held, torque and recoil adjusting instrument that produces the classic toggle recoil thrust that the chiropractor(s hands are intended to deliver. The contact tip of the Integrator is a matched human pisiform both in shape, size and durometer.

According to Holder, the Integrator "automatically discharges the adjustment thrust when a predetermined contact pressure on the instrument's pisiform tip is reached, allowing for true inter professional reproducibility at 1/10,000th of a second, and at a specific hertz (Hz) frequency signaling the chiropractor that a specific adjustment has been delivered." The Integrator is the only hand held chiropractic adjusting instrument with adjustable left and right torque vectors and axial vector capability as well as recoil and true adjustment of force available today.

The Integrator was developed in order to achieve reproducibility in delivering true Toggle Recoil adjustments during a research study designed by Robert Duncan, Ph. D., bio‑statistician, at the University of Miami School of Medicine, together with the Holder Research Institute.

TRT can be performed without the Integrator, allowing the chiropractor to adjust by hand if desired. Further, TRT is not X‑ray dependent, although significant changes are manifest when comparing pre and post films.

The technique has won praise from numerous chiropractic researchers, educators and clinicians, as well as having its research published in the world(s most prestigious mainstre`am scientific journals to date. It was the release of this research that led to the first and only positive documentary on chiropractic to be produced and aired on a national/international television network by the Discovery Channel.

Robin C. Hyman, D.C., author of "Thompson Technique" and "AK and Subluxation Analysis" and former professor of technique, Parker College of Chiropractic, stated, "The Torque Release Technique is a dynamic system of analysis and adjustment. Synthesizing and encompassing the 'best of the best' within many of the great chiropractic techniques of our profession, Torque Release Technique becomes a welcomed, philosophical and scientifically based addition of subluxation‑based chiropractic technique for the next 100 years of chiropractic."

Christopher Kent, D.C., president of the Council on Chiropractic Practice and member of the WCA Board of Directors said that TRT "represents a tonal approach to the correction of vertebral subluxations," and Wayne Menkus, D.C., C.Ad., former chairman of Life University's Dept. of Physiology called the TRT program "a viable and successful treatment solution."

Dr. Holder's usual TRT training program is offered as a two‑day seminar for $350. As an exclusive service to participants in the World Chiropractic Alliance International Summit, he is providing the complete TRT program as a one‑day intensive session, free to Summit enrollees. The program is designed to cover the same important elements as the full seminar ‑‑ including: the 14 diagnostic indicators of subluxation, the protocol and principles of the Torque Release Technique model, the nervous system tonal model, non‑linear testing priorities, coccyx/sphenoid testing and correction, the Brain Reward Cascade and Reward Deficiency Syndrome in subluxation‑centered chiropractic, the 17 flaws of advanced leg testing, and the implementation of TRT in practice. The one‑day intensive will allow doctors to return to their practice and incorporate TRT immediately, without additional training.

"This has never been offered before," said Terry A. Rondberg, D.C., WCA president. "As Summit participants, doctors can attend a wide variety of presentations on Thursday and Saturday, plus the entire TRT program on Friday. They'll receive the complete $350 program for free. This is an incredible opportunity for any doctor who wishes to learn a technique that has been proven capable of increasing the effectiveness of delivering specific adjustments and boosting practice volume."

The registration fee for the 2004 WCA International Summit is $285, which includes one practicing D.C. and an unlimited number of non‑D.C. guests (family, staff, etc.). The WCA will apply for continuing education credit and will post the states approving such credit on the Summit website. In past years, Summit presentations have been approved for 16 credits in most states. An additional fee of $50 for the processing of CE credit can be paid at the door.

When they register, doctors will specify which of the four Friday programs they choose to attend. Registrants may attend all Thursday and Saturday events as well, including a first‑ever Joint Legislative Day involving the WCA, International Chiropractors Association and Federation of Straight Chiropractors and Organizations. Saturday presenters include many of the most popular speakers in the profession, celebrating the art, science and philosophy of chiropractic. Scheduled are Drs. Eric Plasker, Tony Palermo, Christopher Kent, David Jackson, Matthew McCoy and Patrick Gentempo. Dr. Terry Rondberg will close the Summit with a special address.

Doctors may register by calling the WCA at 800/347 1011 or online at www.worldchiropracticalliance.org/summit04