Our vision:

To achieve a critical mass of writers to reconstruct conventional Chiropractic

Read the web pages of the Asia-Pacific Chiropractic Journal in your own language -select here

'read with your mind, care with your heart'

Asia-Pacific Chiropractic Journal
Issue 5.4

Published 1 April 2025

Scholarship

Charles L Blum: Measles, to vaccinate or not to vaccinate: That is the question. [Editorial], followed by a Medscape quiz about identifying a presentation of measles

JC Smith: Chiropractic as vaccine

Preelan Govender: Empowering communities through Chiropractic: The impact of giving back [WCCS]

Phillip Ebrall: The power of self-governance within Australian Chiropractic: A pragmatic analysis of the so-called ‘baby-ban’ which must now be resolved

Harvey Getzoff: The Atlas Vertebrae and its role in the function of the Sacro Occipital Technique (SOT) Categories

Steven Baroody: Perspectives on the Lateral Atlas: a review of the literature

Donald McDowall: Doc, When Can My Kid Play? So, My Child Had a Concussion: When Will My Child's Brain Return to Normal? When Will I Get My Son/Daughter Back? [Book Review]

Harvey Getzoff: Chiropractic Manipulative Reflex Technique: Based on the work of Major Bertrand DeJarnette, DO, DC [Book Review]

Joseph Ierano and Phillip Ebrall: Reader beware: Rapid reviews have a trust issue

Cox® Technic and Editorial staff: James M Cox [In Memoriam]

Charles Blum: Channeling healing energy: Developing our intuition, Part eight

Scott Cuthbert: Manual Muscle Testing: The Chiropractic profession’s physical sign of the Motor Neuron’s ‘Tone’. A DD Palmer wish-fulfilment like no other

Christopher Meyer: Disc focused Bio-Psycho-Social model per Gonstead clinical practice

Phillip Ebrall: A clinical update on lumbar disc degeneration

Letters: Engel, Masarsky: Respiratory RCTs: What Are We Missing?

Chad Warshel et al: Supine and prone SOT pelvic block placement: A comparative analysis of position by MRI

Jeffrey Blum: Conservative and reversible: The role of Body Psychotherapy in the treatment of Temporomandibular Disorders

Chloé Blanchard & Richard Meldener: A chiropractic history of Applied Kinesiology in France

Chloé Blanchard et Richard Meldener: Une histoire chiropratique de la kinésiologie appliquée en France. [French]

Explore more of the Asia-Pacific Chiropractic Journal

Chiropractic Paradigms

Applied Kinesiology (AK)

Cuthbert S, Lindley-Jones C, and contributors: A history of professional Applied Kinesiology around the world (Part I)

Cuthbert S, Lindley-Jones C, and contributors: A history of professional Applied Kinesiology around the world (Part II)

Chloé Blanchard & Richard Meldener: A chiropractic history of Applied Kinesiology in France [Also in French]

McCord KM, Schmitt WH: Quintessential Applications: A(K) Clinical Protocol. The Evolution of a Neurological & Biochemical Hierarchy

Schmitt WH, McCord KM: Measure, Measure, Measure:‘Indicator testing’ and nutrients for musculoskeletal pain

Schmitt WH, McCord KM: Relieving spinal stress with ‘Emotional Recall Quick Fix’

Schmitt WH, McCord KM: Set Point (Touch & Tap) Technique for chronic Injury, inflammation, and pain relief

McCord KM, Schmitt WH: Acute pain & the Quintessential Applications clinical protocol

Cuthbert S: Vitamin D and Coronavirus: Not a vaccine, nonetheless nature’s humble natural cure

Cuthbert S: Dorsal Scapular Nerve Entrapments in Motor Vehicle Accidents: An Applied Kinesiology Chiropractic Case Report

Cuthbert S: Applied Kinesiology Management of Whiplash Associated Disorder (WAD): An Applied Kinesiology chiropractic case report

Cuthbert S: Best Practice Guidelines for Diagnosing Muscle Imbalance: Chiropractic versus Physiotherapy

Cuthbert S: The GenitoUrinary system in chiropractic: The neuroanatomy of the muscle-organ-gland correlation

Cuthbert S: A Colossal Chiropractic Footprint: Reflections on the influence of George J Goodheart Jr, DC, DIBAK, Founder of Applied Kinesiology upon Chiropractic, Medical, and Complementary and Alternative Medical thinking around the world

Cuthbert S, Stump JL, Stark B: Applied Kinesiology Chiropractic and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Cuthbert S: Proprioception in Chiropractic: Measuring tone with Chiropractic Neuro-Physiology

Cuthbert S: Temporal Bone Cranial Dysfunctions: A resume of ‘The Trouble Maker of The Head’ with a focus on prevalent Vestibulo-Ocular Proprioceptive Syndromes in Chiropractic Practice

Cuthbert S: Chiropractic management of painful Tarsal Tunnel Syndromes: The neurological channels in the human foot and manual Muscle Testing

Cuthbert S:  Temporo-mandibular Joint Disorder: Differing professional treatment options reviewed in two case reports. A speculative Case Series

Cuthbert S: Applied Kinesiology Chiropractic: Clinical Algorithms for Comprehensive Management of Temporomandibular Joint Disorders

Scott Cuthbert: Chiropractic Applied Kinesiology methods for cervical herniated disc syndrome along with sciatica and bilateral frozen shoulder: A case report

Scott Cuthbert: Chiropractic management of cervical disc herniations: A case series

Scott Cuthbert: Manual Muscle Testing: The Chiropractic profession’s physical sign of the Motor Neuron’s ‘Tone’. A DD Palmer wish-fulfilment like no other

Gonstead Methods

Randal Johnson: Down the sacrum rabbit hole

Randal Johnson:   Down the sacrum rabbit hole: Part 2

More on the way

Chiropractic articles

Chiropractic History

Callender A: Reflections of a chiropractic historian

Peters R: The reason for remembering significant people: The story of Mary Ann Chance and why our profession is what it is in Australia today

Peters RE: The Founder of Chiropractic: Some notes on DD Palmer

Ebrall P: DD Palmer and the Egyptian Connection: A short report

Cuthbert S: A Colossal Chiropractic Footprint: Reflections on the influence of George J Goodheart Jr, DC, DIBAK, Founder of Applied Kinesiology upon Chiropractic, Medical, and Complementary and Alternative Medical thinking around the world

Cuthbert S, Lindley-Jones C, at al: A history of professional Applied Kinesiology around the world (Part I)

Smith JC: Chiselled hands: A history of manipulative therapy and Chiropractic care

Davis KY, Blum CL: A history of temporal sphenoidal (TS) diagnosis and its clinical application

Ierano J: The upper cervical Chiropractic lineage diagram project

Ebrall P: Finding the professional identity of chiropractic in Australasia that shaped education: A pragmatic narrative of the Inquiry Period from 1960 to 1979

Ebrall P: The establishment of the International College of Chiropractic (ICC) Melbourne

Ebrall P: The Emergence of Chiropractic Education in Australia

Ebrall P: RMIT University kills its Chiropractic program in Victoria

Ebrall P: Another one bites the dust: Are we witnessing the demise of our profession? [Editorial]

Ebrall P:It’s not the battles we lose that bother me, it’s the ones we don’t suit up for’ [Editorial]

Ebrall P: Survival and growth: Adversity make us do better [Editorial]

Philosophy of Chiropractic

Abrahams T: Philosophy: To be or not to be?

Weiner G: The nature of the Subluxation and the simple elegant complexity of The Adjustment: Not your Grandfather’s waterhose

Rome P, Waterhouse JD: The specific chiropractic adjustment is conducted within an articulation’s physiological range of motion: Part 4 of a series

Elbert R: Doctor, what is the intention of your adjustment? A Clinical Huddle

Blum C: Channeling healing energy: The power of touch in the chiropractic clinical encounter, Part three

Rome PL, Waterhouse JD: The Vertebral Subluxation premise: Part 1: The medical literature regarding nomenclature

Policy Committee. Australian Chiropractors Association: Policy on Chiropractic Practice, Scope & Terminology

Rome PL, Waterhouse JD: The Vertebral Subluxation premise: Principle 1 continued, The medical literature regarding nomenclature and onset

Ebrall P: Subluxation as a fuzzy narrative

Blum C: Yesterday when I was young [Reflection]

McDowall C-A: Evidence that may support the claim that spinal manipulative therapy can affect the patient beyond muscle and joint pain: A systematic narrative review

Seiler E: DD Palmer’s theistic spin on biology and the modern effort to hide it

Rome PL, Waterhouse JD: Medicine has failed to grasp the principles explaining chiropractic’s international success [Editorial]

McLuckie A: Preparing for the worst, hoping for the best and bracing for impact: A narrative on parallels between chiropractic education and the WCCS pandemic response

Ebrall P: A philosophy for chiropractic education in the 21st Century: A contextual prelude

Richards DM: The meaning and value of vitalism in chiropractic [Thesis]

Fox M, et al: Vitalism in a New Zealand chiropractic program

Ebrall P: Absolving Chiropractic’s indeterminacy through interdependence

This issue's challenge ...

What did DD mean when he stated that Chiropractic is founded on tone?

Headline of the month

Article from the Mercury newspaper, Hobart.

'multivitamin'

Vyas et al report 'daily multivitamin mineral (MVM) supplementation leads to a significantly more favourable 2-y change in episodic memory'. Their meta-analysis indicates that daily MVM significantly benefits 'both global cognition and episodic memory'. These findings support the benefits of a daily MVM in preventing cognitive decline among older adults

READ:

  • Vyas CM, Manson JE, Sesso HD, Cook NR, Rist PM, Weinberg A, Moorthy MV, Baker LD, Espeland MA, Yeung LK, Brickman AM, Okereke OI. Effect of multivitamin-mineral supplementation versus placebo on cognitive function: results from the clinic subcohort of the COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) randomized clinical trial and meta-analysis of 3 cognitive studies within COSMOS. Am J Clin Nutr. 2024 Mar;119(3):692-701. DOI 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.12.011. Get the full paper, free, at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/pmid/38244989/

{{errors.first('rs-102b-79e7-b4f1', 'rs-102b-d0c5-7a61')}}

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google
Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Thank you, your subscription is successful.

Trevor goes from the mines to becoming a practicing chiropractor

After years of hard labour as a diesel fitter in the mining industry, Trevor Ronnfeldt gave it all up to become a Chiropractor – and now he’s helping others manage their pain in his hometown of Moura.

The 38-year-old, who operates the only registered Chiropractic practice in Moura with his wife Renee, has revealed how CQUniversity’s Bachelor of Science (Chiropractic) changed his life for the better.

'The driving factor in me wanting to become a chiropractor is that I was a diesel fitter out at the mines at the time that my wife and I had our first child, and I broke my elbow and couldn’t pick my first born up', he said.

'I looked around the workshop at the senior tradesman and I knew I didn’t want to continue down that career path  they either had broken families or broken bodies

'I always wanted to do something in health, and it wasn’t until I saw a chiropractor myself and gained relief from migraines and headaches that I then knew a career in chiropractic was what I wanted to pursue'.

Trevor moved to Brisbane to undertake his studies at CQU, completing a Bachelor of Science (Chiropractic) and a Master of Clinical Chiropractic, graduating from both with Distinction.

'The training was exceptional. They taught me everything I needed to know to look after my patients', he said.

'I was really impressed with the course. The thing I loved about CQU was that there wasn’t one topic we couldn’t talk about. I loved the idea we could explore anything and everything about chiropractic, there was no bias or judgement about any question asked.

'From what I understand from all the people I have spoken to about other universities, we covered more. I felt we got a well-rounded education, and a broad range of curriculum. It was a new program when I attended, but it really did prepare me for what to expect in the real world. The whole education prepared me for most cases that could walk through the door'.

And Trevor is putting everything he learned into practice at Moura Chiropractic.

'I love being able to support our community’s health and wellness. What isn’t there to like? I see instant change in my patients and see the fruits of my labour', he said.

'There isn’t one person alive that isn’t physically broken in one way, shape or form. Being in a regional setting I meet the most genuine people and see cases I wouldn’t see in a metropolitan setting

'I must think outside the box. It’s a much more challenging, exciting and fulfilling role in a regional setting because I see different things all the time and I’m not doing the same things over and over'.

Story courtesy of CQUniversity News. By Greg Chapman. Read more here

The Wisdom of 33

"The Wisdom of 33" is a compilation of 33 Chapters or "Wisdoms" from Chiropractors and Chiropractic advocates around the world. Buy from the author, Donald Francis, at dkfrancis@btinternet.comAll proceeds to SCC.

The book details secrets of success, passion, philosophy, personal stories, practice tips and life lessons.

It will become, in time, a chiropractic classic as the chiropractic profession around the world has so much to gain from the wisdom that leaps from every page. Each chapter includes contributions from two generous authors. Each author contributed completely of there own volition and without prejudice so each piece stands alone as a lesson in how to be happier, more productive, more successful and more. Each author was asked to share their wisdom, something that they hold dear to themselves, something which they feel would be of value to those with a passion for Chiropractic.

What they produced is remarkable and is a must read for anyone within the Chiropractic family who believes that the profession has a future that includes a role in the delivery of healthcare and quality of life that is without limit. The wisdom of these 66 amazing and generous people leaps from the pages of this easy-to-read book that we hope will inspire you on your own journey. It also represents the values and principles held dear by the Scotland College of Chiropractic Charitable Trust and every single penny and cent of the purchase price, less for a very small production cost, will go to help make The Scotland College of Chiropractic a world leader in the delivery of quality, principled Chiropractic education. The book is dedicated to Dr Dave Russell who was a due to become the first President of the Scotland College of Chiropractic before his untimely death in 2020. During his short life Dave gave so much to the profession of chiropractic and his legacy will live on though this book and the many people who will read it, as well as those who will attend the Scotland College and all they go onto serve. As BJ Palmer said, "You never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow." Well lets hope so. 

Author Guidelines
Asia-Pacific Chiropractic Journal

All you need to know to write for us

 

This product has been added to your cart

CHECKOUT