Abstract
Most people might think that chiropractic has mainly to do with ailments affecting the muscular-skeletal system. Today, chiropractic looks beyond the immediate “dis-ease” to see how this might affect physical, mental, and spiritual development. Not “How do you feel?” but “How do you want to feel?” Anticipation-informed chiropractic focuses on maintaining the human being’s anticipatory expression. This is comprised of motoric performance: sense of balance, spatial and temporal navigation, adaptation to tasks, etc., and the associated cognitive activity. The chiropractic way of thinking is compared to classical, conventional, localized therapeutic approaches promoted by the mechanistic medical model, and to the reductionist views implicit in specialized medicine.
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Ritalin sales have been skyrocketing for the last decade. 83 % increase in the drug use between 2006 and 2010. The Methylphenidate belongs to the amphetamine family.
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“Posture affects and moderates every physiological function, from breathing to nervous system. Despite the considerable evidence that posture affects physiology and function, the significant influence of posture on health is not addressed by most physicians.” American Journal of Pain Management.
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Simply put, aponeurosis is a a sheetlike tendinous expansion, mainly serving to connect a muscle with the parts it moves (cf. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/aponeurosis.
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The word “adjustment” belongs to the chiropractic vocabulary. When the word manipulation refers more to an idea of imposed force, implying a certain wish to control associated to a pejorative meaning the adjustment concept implies a gentle, very precise move, well tolerated, agreed.
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Pianta, J.P. (2017). At the Meeting Point Between Anticipation and Chiropraxis. In: Nadin, M. (eds) Anticipation and Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45142-8_21
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