Part 45

Uterus and Vagina: Uterovaginal plexus from the pelvic and containing spinal nerve fibres from L 4, L 5, and sacrum.

Ovaries and Fallopian Tubes: The ovarian plexus receives fibres from the abdominal aortic and through it from the lumbar ganglia, influenced by second lumbar adjustment.

Brachial Plexus: The brachial plexus of spinal nerves arises from the nerves from the fifth cervical to the first thoracic inclusive and controls the voluntary muscles of the upper extremity, with its integument. Muscle groups, rather than single muscles, are represented for the most part in the spinal segments giving off these nerves, and the ramification of the nerves within the plexus is such that almost any given muscle might be affected by more than one spinal subluxation. Below are given the principal connections:

Pectoralis Major and Minor Muscles: Sixth or seventh cervical through internal anterior thoracic nerve and first dorsal through external anterior thoracic.

Shoulder Joint: The joint, muscles covering the joint, and integument of this region are innervated by the circumflex nerve which traces through the plexus to fifth and sixth cervical nerves. Sixth cervical adjustment usually affects this joint.

Serratus Magnus Muscle: Sixth cervical by long thoracic, or External Respiratory Nerve of Bell.

Elbow Joint: Sixth cervical vertebra by musculocutaneous nerve.

Anterior Arm Muscles: Sixth cervical.

Posterior Arm Muscles: Seventh cervical and first dorsal.

Lumbosacral Plexus: This plexus, derived from the anterior primary divisions of the lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal nerves, supplies the muscles and integument of the lower extremity, taking with it axons derived from the sympathetic by the lumbar ganglia to supply the blood-vessels, perspiratory glands and sebaceous glands of this region. The latter are responsive to adjustments of the first or second lumbar vertebrae.

Hip-Joint: Third and fourth lumbar nerves by femoral and obturator or accessory obturator nerves and fifth lumbar or first sacral by the nerve to the quadratus femoris or the great sciatic. Fourth lumbar seems the most potent connection and is usually adjusted for hip-joint disease.

Psoas Magnus Muscles: Anterior branches of the second and third lumbar nerves.

Anterior Thigh Muscles: Supplied mostly through the femoral nerve from the second and third lumbar nerves.

Internal Thigh Muscles: Second and third lumbar nerves (chiefly but not wholly) through the obturator, accessory obturator and femoral nerves.

Gluteus Maximus: From the fifth lumbar and first and second sacral nerves through the inferior gluteal branch of the sacral plexus.

Obturator Externus: Second, third, and fourth lumbar nerves through the obturator nerve.

Posterior Thigh Muscles: Fourth and fifth lumbar and sacral nerves through the great sciatic.

Great Sciatic Nerve: This great nerve, direct continuation of the sacral plexus, arises from the fourth and fifth lumbar and first three or four sacral nerves and is widely distributed to muscles and integument of the lower extremity. Sciatica, or sciatic rheumatism, is most commonly relieved by adjustment of fourth or fifth lumbar vertebra; but there is a condition commonly diagnosed as sciatica which is really a sciatic neuritis and due to vasomotor disturbance affecting the blood-supply to the nerve trunk. This responds to adjustment of first or second lumbar because the amyelinic fibres which control these blood-vessels are derived from lumbar ganglia of the sympathetic.

Anterior Leg Muscles: Fourth and fifth lumbar and first sacral nerves through the anterior tibial.

Posterior Leg Region: Fourth and fifth lumbar and first and second sacral through the internal popliteal and posterior tibial.

Knee-Joint: This joint receives branches from the great sciatic through both internal and external popliteal, and from the femoral and obturator. It is therefore connected with the lower lumbar and sacrum and with the second lumbar. The latter connection seems oftenest involved in knee joint inflammations.

Foot: Fourth and fifth lumbar and sacral nerves through the great sciatic and its branches.

Sensor Areas of Lower Extremity: In general, any given cutaneous area receives sensor branches from the nerve which supplies the subjacent muscle area. For accurate diagnostic purposes a good chart of sensor distribution may be consulted.

DISEASES AND ADJUSTMENTS

The appended list includes the diseases with which the profession has had experience but is not in any sense a complete list of diseases. It is merely intended for quick and handy reference. In obscure cases or diseases not mentioned it is suggested that the practitioner carefully diagnose the case with reference to the location of the morbid process and then refer to Special Nerve Connections to find the nerve pathway between the spine and the organ indicated as the seat of the disease. Standard works on anatomy and physiology will explain more fully the paths and functions of the nerves but information gleaned from them must be sought out and pieced together from scattered statements and discussions.

Disease Adjustment. Abscess According to location. Accommodative iridoplegia C 3 or 4. Acid stomach D 6 or 7. Acne D 11 or 12. Acoria D 6 or 7. Acromegaly C 1 or 2, D 10, 11, or 12. Addison’s disease D 10. Adenitis According to location. Adenoids of pharynx C 2 or 3. Adiposis dolorosa D 8 and D 11 or 12. Adrenals, tuberculosis of D 10. Ageusia C 1 or 2. Ague D 4, D 9, D 11 or 12. Albuminuria D 10, 11, or 12. Albumosuria D 8, D 10, 11 or 12. Alcoholism C 1, D 10, 11 or 12. Amenorrhoea L 4 or 5. Amnesia C 1 or 2. Amyosthenia General. Amyloid liver D 4. Amyloid kidney D 10, 11 or 12. Anachlorhydria D 6 or 7. Anaemia D 4, D 9 and D 11 or 12. Sometimes L 4. Anaesthesia, general C 1 or 2. Anasarca D 10, 11 or 12. Aneurism D 1 or according to location. Angina pectoris D 2. Aniscoria C 4. Anorexia nervosa C 1, D 6 or 7. Anosmia C 1 or 2, C 4. Anthracosis D 3. Anterior poliomyelitis C 3 or 4. local zones for permanent paralyses following. Anuria D 10, 11 or 12. Or L 2 or 4. Aortic stenosis D 2. Aphasia C 1 or 2. Aphonia C 6. Aphthous stomatitis C 2. Apoplexy C 2, 3. Appendicitis L 2. Apraxia C 1 or 2. Argyll-Robertson pupil C 1 or 2. Arrhythmia C 2 or D 2. Arteriosclerosis D 10, 11 or 12 and local. Arteritis According to location. Arthritis According to location. Arthritis deformans D 10, 11 or 12 and according to location. Ascarides L 2 or 3. Ascites D 4. Asphyxia, gas D 2 or 3, Atlas (First aid only). Asthenia To correct disease producing same. Asthenopia C 4. Asthma D 1. Ataxia, cerebellar C 1 or 2. Ataxia, locomotor General adjustment. Athetosis C 1 or 2. Atrophic cirrhosis of liver D 4. Atrophy According to location. Aural discharges C 1, 2, 3 or 4.

Back, pain in According to location. Barber’s itch C 5, D 10, 11 or 12. Bell’s palsy C 2, 3 or 4. Biliousness D 4. Blepharitis C 3 or 4. Blepharospasm C 3 or 4. Blindness C 1, 2, 3 or 4. “Blood poisoning” D 10, 11 or 12 and local. Boils D 10, 11 or 12 and according to location. Bradycardia D 1 or 2, possibly C 2. Bright’s disease D 10, 11 or 12. Bronchitis D 1. Bronchiectasis D 1. Broncho-pneumonia D 1, D 3.

Caked breast D 3. Calculi, cystic L 2 or 4. Calculi, hepatic D 4. Calculi, renal D 10, 11 or 12. Cancer No cure. Cancrum oris C 2 or 3, D 11 or 12. Canker (mouth) C 2. Carbuncle According to location. Carcinoma No cure. Caries of spine According to location. See “Prognosis.” Cataract C 2, 3, or 4. Catarrh, nasal C 4. Catarrhal gastritis D 6 or 7. Catarrhal stomatitis C 2 or 3. Cerebral abscess C 1 or 2. Cerebrospinal meningitis C 2. Cervical glands, enlargement of Any cervical. Cervico-brachial neuralgia C 6. Cervico-occipital neuralgia C 1 or 2. Chickenpox C 5, D 10, 11 or 12. Chills D 5. Chlorosis D 4, D 9, D 11 or 12. Cholangitis D 4. Cholecystitis D 4. Cholelithiasis D 4. Cholera infantum D 5 or 6, D 10, 11 or 12, L 2. Chorea C 1 or 2. Chyluria D 8, D 11 or 12. Cirrhosis of liver D 4. Claw hand C 6 or 7 or D 1. Clubfoot L 4 or 5. Colic, hepatic D 4. Colic, renal D 10, 11 or 12. Colitis L 2 or 3. Collapse C 1, D 2, and according to associated condition. Coma According to cause. Conjunctivitis C 3 or 4. Constipation D 4, D 10, or L 3, 4 or 5. Contractures According to location. Coryza C 4. Coxalgia L 4. Cramp According to location. Croup C 2 or C 6. Cutaneous eruptions D 10, 11 or 12. Cyanosis D 2, D 3 or C 2. Cystitis L 2 or L 4.