A new look at subluxation: From Dr Robert Maigne

I'm really fond of reading interviews with Dr Robert Maigne, a French rheumatologist and MD.

Without knowing it, he pretty much summed up what chiropractic does, and the mechanism of what we call "subluxation".

Dr Maigne coined the term PMID, or "painful minor intervertebral dysfunction", and he claims this is the cause of most back pain. Brought on my exertion, false movement, or poor posture, he states the best treatment is "manipulation", or what we call, adjusting. He also describes that PMID can go away on its own, become worse, be asymptomatic, or create episodic pain over the years.

Maigne also notes what he calls "neutrophic disturbances" in the distribution of the spinal nerve. He believes that segments at junction areas of the spine (lower neck , midback) become dysfunctional, and can cause pain and these neutrophic disturbances in areas much further away.

Ever felt that? A faulty movement..pain comes and goes for years...doesn't take much to trigger it? Now, imagine what that pain means? Could it mean that, areas that are innervated (supplied) by that nerve from that segment could be not functioning correct, as well?

Chiropractic addresses these segments, corrects them, and lets the nerves go back to normal.