Thyroid
Case reports in chiropractic pediatrics.
Newborn with atlas subluxation/absent rooting reflex Esch,
S. American Chiropractic Association J of Chiropractic December
1988.
This is the case of a two day old newborn female showing
lethargy and a yellowish skin color present since birth and
an inability to nurse; the baby seemed unable to “latch
on.”
A medical doctor said the baby was probably hypothyroid
and should be hospitalized.
The atlas was adjusted for a left
lateral listing. Immediately thereafter, the baby exhibited
a strong bilateral rooting reflex. The baby began to nurse
right away and the jaundice quickly cleared. The mother continued
to nurse her child for two years.
Hyperthyroid Condition (Grave’s Disease): A case review.
Firczak, SW. Today’s Chiropractic (citation unavailable
date approx. 1989).
This is the case of a 20-year-old female
who had been diagnosed as suffering from hyperthyroidism.
Symptoms
included nervous irritation, tachycardia, hives, occasional
eyelid and upper lip edema and frontal headaches. She had been
under medical treatment for six years, which included prophylthiouracil™.
She had stopped medication and the symptoms worsened.
Chiropractic
examination revealed nerve irritation at C1, C3, T6, T7, T11
and L5. Restricted movement was found at C2. Adjustments were
usually to C2 using the Gonstead cervical chair and the Gonstead
technique. L5 was occasionally adjusted. After 4 months of
chiropractic care the patient’s
T4 blood levels were within normal range and symptoms completely
disappeared.
Thyroid dysfunction and its somatic reflections:
a preliminary report. Wiliamson ME, Journal Of The American
Osteopathic Association Vol. 72, March 1972.
From the abstract:
The hypothesis that thyroid dysfunction can
be detected by palpation of a lesion at the second cervical
vertebra (C2) on the left was tested in 100 selected subjects.
Patients were studied by palpation of all cervical vertebrae,
scanning, laboratory tests, including uptake, and clinical
evaluation. Of 38 patient with no palpable cervical lesion,
25 (66%) had normal thyroid function whereas 13 (34 percent)
had either thyrotoxicosis, nodular goiter, autonomous nodules,
or hypothyroidism. The remaining 62 patients had palpable cervical
lesions, 39 on the left C2 area of whom 88 percent had thyroid
dysfunction. Seven (11 percent) of the 62 patients with cervical
lesions were euthyroid (normal thyroid function). Further investigation
of the concept of the somatic reflection of dysfunction of
internal organs is warranted.
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