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Title: Technic and practice of chiropractic
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Loban, Joy Maxwell, b. 1887
Subjects: Chiropractic
Publisher: Davenport, Ia. : Universal chiropractic college
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n you do not press. At times during the tracing, it is well to depart fromthe probable nerve-path and to touch again a point markedas tender, to see if the patients information may be reliedupon. Whenever you leave the nerve-path his answershould be, No, immediately changing to, Yes, whenyou re-cross the tender line. Marking Tender Points At each tender point noted a small mark should be madewith an eye-brow pencil or other grease-paint, which leavesa distinct but easily removable mark. These tender pointsshould be noted and marked at intervals of about an inch. Connecting Line When the entire nerve-path has been traversed in thisway, draw a line with the eye-brow pencil, passing throughall the marks indicating points of tenderness. This lineshould be a sufficiently accurate rough outline of the nerve-path to make clear the spinal connection with the diseasedarea. The significance of this connection will be betterunderstood when the section on Spino-Organic Connectionhas been studied.
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Fig. (J. Anterior half of completed nerve tracing. Nerve-tracing 73 Common Findings In muscular rheumatism, neuralgia, neuritis, or in caseof a local boil or abscess indicating local disturbance of thetrophic influence of nerves, clear and definite tracings arecommon. Muscular spasm, such as wry-neck, usually hasa very tender nerve associated. Localized painful diseaseof any kind is likely to be associated with a very definitenerve tenderness, as is the case frequently with appendi-citis, ovaritis, hepatic colic, etc. The painless disorders, or various disorders of spleen,diaphragm, heart, lungs, etc., though they be of a veryserious nature, seldom are discoverable by nerve-tracingunless their serous membranes are involved. Tracings maybe made from D 2 or 3 to anterior thoracic walls in heartor lung disease but are not common. Any spinal nerve may be traceable at times through atleast a part of its course. Sources of Error Several of these have been mentioned, such as the nat-ural sug

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