February 2007

New Torque Release seminars start in March

Torque Release Technique (TRT) launches its new season of seminars this March, with 13 dates and locations throughout the US. The first TRT seminar will begin March 2, with the last of the 13 seminars of the season ending June 15, 2007.

In its 11‑year history, TRT has produced a large number of "firsts" for the chiropractic profession and continues that tradition this year with the release of seven studies, three of which were published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research (JVSR) as well as additional studies published in Australia, Switzerland and Canada.

In contrast to previous research studies conducted by TRT's Holder Research Institute, these studies were authored by chiropractic field doctors who attended TRT seminars and use TRT in their practices. They covered a wide array of clinical scenarios such as: evidence of chiropractic care promoting health, subluxation‑centered care of a battered woman, quality‑of‑life improvements and spontaneous lifestyle changes under subluxation‑centered care, and Reward Deficiency Syndrome vs. state of well‑being.

According to Jay Holder, DC, creator of TRT and the Integrator adjusting device; most chiropractors report that using TRT has turned their practices around. "It starts an evolution of excitement within them and to what they do in their practice," Dr. Holder noted.

The dual track program, introduced last year, divides the learning experience into two parts. Track I (Standard Program) is available for both first time attendees and repeat refresher attendees as well. The Track II (Advanced Hands‑On Program) is available only for those who have already attended a Track I (standard program.)

Both dual track programs are held together at all TRT seminar weekends but presented in a way that allows refreshers to attend both Tracks if they wish. D.C. refreshers who have previously attended a standard TRT program can opt to attend just the Track II portion (for free) or attend Track I to refresh their standard skills, learn about the latest changes, modifications, upgrades and research. "It's this method that allows TRT to continue to evolve its non‑linear tonal model and not get stuck or staying the same, decade after decade, as all first century techniques do. Refresher attendees rave about their Track II experience as one in which practicing real chiropractic would never have been possible without their experience in Track II," says Dr. Holder.

All Track II attendees receive Advanced Proficiency Certification (APC) in Torque Release Technique at the end of the seminar. In addition, APC chiropractors are given "priority status" on all patient referrals through the Holder Research Institute.

Thanks to TRT's on‑going research published in highly respected scientific and medical journals, documentaries on major television networks such as NBC and Discovery, publicity in print media, as well as the growing number of new patients receiving TRT each year, a large portion of the general public has been exposed to TRT and the number of patient referrals has increased significantly.

"Satisfied patients do not refer others, only excited patients refer," said Holder. "Due to this high public visibility, it's easy to see why Holder Research Institute receives hundreds of requests for TRT doctors monthly. Most come directly from patients seeking a TRT chiropractor in their area, or from patients receiving TRT care who have relatives or friends needing Torque Release in their locale. This is in response to TRT's significant media exposure creating public interest in those seeking chiropractic care for the first time."

Refreshers will receive a $100 rebate for each new DC they refer to the Track I program, if both attend the same location. There is no limit on the amount of rebate the refresher can receive.

TRT research

"In more than 100 years of chiropractic, TRT is the only chiropractic technique to initially be created out of a research study and model," Holder explained. "TRT was originally discovered and developed out of the first and largest chiropractic study ever conducted on addictions/RDS/state of well‑being in a human population."

The 18‑month study was a randomized, placebo controlled, clinical research trial that has withstood scrutiny from both the mainstream scientific and medical community, as well as from the chiropractic profession.

Holder designed the study and performed the research in conjunction with Bob Duncan, Ph.D., at the University of Miami School of Medicine, the Exodus Residential Treatment facility, and financial support from the Florida Chiropractic Society.

The research appeared in several of medicine's most significant peer‑reviewed journals, including Nature, which is rated among the top two scientific journals in the world and The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.

The best‑selling book, "Staying Clean and Sober," released last year, examines the paradigm of TRT as a subluxation‑based, non‑linear, vitalistic, tonal model. The book explored the role of the primary subluxation in relation to the Brain Reward Cascade vs. Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS), with restored state of well‑being and improved human potential as the outcome of non‑linear subluxation‑based chiropractic care provided by TRT.

The book also discussed the outcome of TRT intervention in ADHD patients with expected abnormal EEG testing. These abnormal EEGs (prefrontal spiking and a reduced P300 wave amplitude) are classic in ADHD and other compulsive disorders and are return to normal after their first TRT adjustment. This was demonstrated at Life College during its 20th Homecoming by Holder and Lasca Hospers, DC, PhD, research director at Life College, and former director of research at the National College of Chiropractic.

Application of Auriculotherapy as developed and defined by Holder is also presented in "Staying Clean and Sober." Auriculotherapy, not to be confused with ear acupuncture, is a mainstream neurological diagnostic system based on the distribution of four cranial nerves and three cervical ganglia that innervate the auricle of the ear. There are no needles used in this system.

"The level of all subluxations, their listing side and their degree of priority, as well as many other disorders are diagnosed in seconds through the Auriculotherapy process, Holder explained." Because of Auriculotherapy's diagnostic ability, the use of surrogate testing for the subluxation in infants or animals is now obsolete. Auriculotherapy diagnosis and treatment now allows any chiropractic technique to be used among infants, animals and regular patients, not just TRT. Because of this, chiropractors are now able to adjust themselves without any help since they can now determine their own subluxation levels and listings if Auriculotherapy is added to the chiropractor's toolbox! That's never been possible before."

One‑day Auriculotherapy workshops are offered on the Sunday following the Friday/Saturday TRT seminar, in the same hotel. TRT seminars start Friday at 2 pm and then continue all day on Saturday. Holder Research Institute offers substantial discounts to DCs attending both TRT and Auriculotherapy on the same weekend. The Auriculotherapy seminar is open to anyone including CA's, other staff, spouses, etc, however, only chiropractors and chiropractic students are allowed to attend the TRT seminars.

Integrator innovation

Among TRT's other notable "firsts" are the introduction and innovation of the Integrator adjusting instrument. According to Holder, the Integrator is the first adjusting instrument to apply for an FDA 510K, which was granted for the adjustment of the vertebral subluxation. Because of that, the FDA became the second federal agency to acknowledge the vertebral subluxation by virtue of issuing the Integrator a 510K for that indication. Only Medicare under the Social Security Administration had acknowledged the subluxation previously, but many decades earlier.

"This is an important achievement for chiropractic as well as providing the first adjusting instrument ever to perform Toggle Recoil with adjustable Torque, at a speed of 1/10,000 of a second," Holder noted. "This, the highest speed of any adjusting device in chiropractic, allows for the Toggle Recoil thrust to be delivered with extremely low mass. Remember, Force equals Mass times Acceleration. The Integrator is the only chiropractic adjusting instrument to be able to reproduce what the chiropractor's hands are intended to do (Toggle Recoil), but at a speed never possible before. The Integrator was originally created from scratch, borrowing nothing from any other chiropractic adjusting instrument."

Holder went on to explain that the Integrator's research and development provided for a technically correct pisiform in its durometer, shape and size, as well as true adjustment of force, and an automatic trip sensor mechanism at the pisiform contact of the Integrator. Since you don't squeeze to fire this device, it allows for consistent inter‑patient and inter‑professional reproducibility in both the thrust characteristics and the Hertz frequency of the primary subluxation. The pisiform's trip sensor mechanism fires the Integrator, not the D.C.

This is possible only because of the Integrator's ability to fire independent of the chiropractor. According to Lonnie Graybill, vice president of Miltex, "This reproducibility is sabotaged in instruments that must be squeezed to fire." Miltex, one of the oldest and largest surgical instrument manufacturers in the world, manufactures the Integrator.

Holder added: "Because all primary subluxations are three dimensional (three letter listings), manifesting its listings on an X, Y and Z axis, it makes no sense for any chiropractor to use other adjusting instruments that are only two dimensional, in that they provide only an axial (single) direction of force. The Integrator is the only adjusting instrument that provides all of these things in a three dimensional dynamic thrust. B.J. Palmer wrote at length about this issue, especially when adjusting by hand! You cannot adjust a tilted (three letter listing) vertebra without torque, he taught and wrote; and in the Green Book 'The Subluxation Specific,' B.J. writes in all bold, capital letters that the most overlooked part of any adjustment is 'THE TORQUE.'"

Holder is particularly proud of the documentary aired on the Discovery Channel, the first positive documentary on chiropractic and the subluxation ever broadcast by a major network both nationally and internationally. The program, which featured TRT and its research in subluxation based chiropractic, was repeated over several years due to popular demand.

The documentary was filmed at Holder's Exodus Treatment Center in Miami Beach. The Discovery Channel became interested in doing the documentary after learning of a research study conducted by Holder and originally published in Molecular Psychiatry.

In 2004, TRT again gained national prominence when CBS aired a News Special about the several research studies published in an issue of the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research which focused on the objective evidence that infertility responds exceptionally well with subluxation‑based chiropractic care. The majority of the research studies published in that issue of JVSR were from doctors using Torque Release Technique.

"Some DCs might have gotten the wrong idea from stuff like that," said Thomas Redenbaugh, DC, APC, TRT faculty and former chairman of the Department of Chiropractic Technique and Philosophy at Parker College. "Because of TRT's initial research in addictions and its later infertility research, DCs may inappropriately 'type‑cast' TRT, thinking that it's limited to treating addictions or infertility. But that is totally wrong. TRT is pure chiropractic and chiropractic doesn't treat any conditions, diseases or symptoms. Instead, subluxation‑centered chiropractic allows for a greater state of well‑being and greater expression of human potential. That's why chiropractic is designed to provide lifetime care and not offer a quick fix."

TRT advocates often point to its unique history as a research‑based technique. TRT faculty, Sony Canteenwala, DC, APC, stated: "If you examine all first‑century chiropractic techniques, you will realize that they were not technique models, solely mechanistic techniques, and that once they were presented to the profession, essentially they stayed the same, stuck in time, till today. Chiropractic is a science, philosophy and an art. Since a science must be under constant evolutionary change to improve and expand itself, so must any and all of chiropractic."

Holder added: "Of course they stayed the same, since the only concept available for all first century techniques was to rely on was Newtonian physics. There was no quantum model or holographic model in those earlier days. Biomechanics can't take you that far, simply because Newtonian physics was never designed for living things. Chiropractic is vitalistic not mechanistic. For instance, I can show you perfectly normal cervical or lumbar curves of a cadaver on X‑ray. Does that demonstrate a state of health or well‑being? That's why the field of Newtonian physics evolved to develop a quantum model."

Suzi Taylor, DC, APC, TRT Faculty, elaborated on that idea. "Since Chiropractic is a science, philosophy and art, shouldn't all chiropractic techniques be under constant change and improvement and not stuck in time? The answer is a resounding 'yes,' because as new understandings are realized from research, techniques must change to keep improving if chiropractic is a science."

Another supporter and APC TRT practitioner, Alfred States, DC, professor at Parker College and the "grandfather" of Diversified Technique and author of "State's Diversified Technique" endorses TRT, saying, "TRT is a must for any chiropractor. Finally, a way to computer upgrade your present technique."

Holder Research Institute is offering a complementary free copy of an "On Purpose" interview on TRT as a non‑linear, subluxation‑based, tonal model, along with its research and philosophy, with Drs. Chris Kent, Patrick Gentempo and Jay Holder.

For seminar dates and locations, or for information concerning Torque Release Technique, or to obtain a free copy of the 90 minute "On Purpose" interview, visit www.torquerelease.com or contact the Holder Research Institute at: 800‑490‑7714 or 305‑535‑8803.