The ICAK International Board of Standards is reviewing applied kinesiology procedures for effectiveness and standardization. It has been decided to change the name of the hidden cervical disc to anterior cervical subluxation. The reason for the name change is that clinically there is no clear diagnostic distinction possible between a subclinical disc problem and a subclinical subluxation. The appropriate adjustment of the anterior cervical subluxation may improve both conditions. Below is a modification of the subject found in Applied Kinesiology – Synopsis, 2nd. edition. in keeping with the Board of Standards’ findings.
Anterior Cervical Subluxation - 1
(Hidden Cervical Disc)
The cervical disc syndrome has classic indicators of motor, reflex, and sensation dysfunction. Applied kinesiology techniques may indicate a lesion when all of the disc diagnostic criteria are not present. Goodheart1 postulates that some cervical spine and low back pain, as well as radicular problems from the cervical and lumbar levels, can result from a different type of lower cervical subluxation, thus causing laxity of the annulus fibrosis and perhaps an intervertebral disc bulge. His interest in this was piqued by the work of Kabat, who found that lower cervical disc problems often caused low back and leg pain. Kabat went so far to state, “This investigation has demonstrated conclusively that compression of the cervical spinal cord by the herniated nucleus pulposus of the cervical disc is the most common cause of low back and leg pain.”4
Here we are not speaking of a true herniation; rather, it may be a “hidden cervical disc” problem caused by a different type of lower cervical subluxation in which the vertebra subluxates anteriorly and superiorly. Symptoms may range from a full radicular pattern of sensory, motor, and reflex changes, or there may be only functionally inhibited muscles in the upper and/or lower extremity with associated pain and/or structural dysfunction. The muscle weakness will usually be in the area of symptoms but will not necessarily be weak in the clear. |
The anterior cervical subluxation displacement is anterosuperior along the facet plane. |
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