Gonstead
Technique 
Dr.
Ryan performing a Gonstead adjustment on a young patient
In
the early 1960's word was spreading throughout the world that there was a healer
in a small farming community in Wisconsin (Mt Horeb!!) to whom people of all ages,
and walks of life, were flocking. The man was Clarence S. Gonstead. He became
a chiropractor in 1923 following a personal experience with chiropractic that
had helped his body heal from a painful, crippling episode of rheumatoid arthritis.
With a background in mechanical engineering, he would come to apply the principles
of this discipline to the evaluation of the spine. Based on his studies, he developed
the "foundation principle" to explain how a fixation in one area of
the spine created compensatory bio-mechanical changes and symptoms in another.
He was a pioneer in the chiropractic profession, developing equipment and a method
of analysis that used more than one criteria to verify the precise location of
vertebral subluxation (A subluxation is a spinal bone that is fixated or "stuck"
resulting in nerve pressure and interfering with the innate ability of the body
to maintain health). One hallmark of the Gonstead Technique is adjustment of the
neck with a very specific maneuver that is completed with the patient seated.
The neck is adjusted in this manner to eliminate the twisting or rotation aspect
of the adjusting procedure. The Gonstead Technique is recognized throughout the
global chiropractic community as one of the safest systems of evaluating and caring
for conditions related to the spine. Back
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