Tonsillitis
The atlas fixation syndrome in the baby and
infant. (German title: Das atlas-blockierungs-syndrom des
sauglings und des kleinkindes.) Gutmann G. Manuelle Medizin
1987 25:5-10, Trans. Peters RE.
This is the case of an 18-month-old
boy with recurring tonsillitis, frequent enteritis, therapy
resistant conjunctivitis and who suffered from colds, rhinitis,
ear infections and sleep disturbances. “Immediately
after (spinal adjustment) the child demanded to be put to
bed and for the first time slept peacefully to the next morning.
Previously disturbed appetite normalized completely. Conjunctivitis
cleared completely.”
The Neurobiologic Mechanisms in Manipulative
Therapy Lewit K. Ed. I.W. Korr, Plenum Press 1978.
Taking the
case history in patients with vertebrogenic disturbances, I
was so struck by the high incidence of chronic relapsing tonsillitis
that I took a random sample of 100 cases from my files and
found that 56 had a history of chronic relapsing tonsillitis
or tonsillectomy for that reason, while only 44 had no or only
incidental tonsillitis. A later systematic study was carried
out under the care of an otolaryngologist. Movement restriction
(hypomobility) at the craniocervical junction was found in
the great majority between occiput and atlas (70 cases or 92%).
Manipulative
Therapy in Rehabilitation of the Locomotor System, 2nd ed.
Lewit K (1991), Butterworth-Heineman, Oxford, 259.
37 children
with chronic tonsillitis were treated by manipulation. Tonsillitis
disappeared in 25 of them. “Tonsillitis
goes hand in hand with movement restriction in the craniocervical
junction.”
Manipulative Therapy and Rehabilitation of
the Locomotor System. Lewit K. 1991. Second edition. Butterworth-Heineman,
Oxford p.259.
Of 76 children with chronic tonsillitis and movement restriction
at the craniocervical junction, 70 had spinal dysfunction
between the occiput and atlas. 37 children who had not been
operated on were given manipulation and were followed up
for 5 years. 67.6% were cured of tonsillitis entirely, the
remainders relapsed and were treated again with manipulation.
25 had their tonsils surgically removed, but 19 of these
still suffered from movement restriction after surgery, requiring
manipulation for relief.
A comparative study of the health status of children raised
under the health care models of chiropractic and allopathic
medicine. Van Breda, Wendy M. and Juan M. Journal of Chiropractic
Research Summer 1989.
Two hundred pediatricians and two hundred
chiropractors were randomly selected and sent a survey to
determine if any differences were to be found in the health
status of their respective children as raised under different
health care models.
Usable responses were received from 35%
of the chiropractors and 36% of the pediatricians and analysis
of the results shows the chiropractic children had superior
health to the medical children. More than 80% of the “medical” children
were reported as having suffered from otitis media while only
315 of the “chiropractic” children were reported
to have it. Nearly 43% of the medical children had suffered
from tonsillitis, compared to less than 27% of the chiropractic
children. Lower antibiotic use was also reported in the chiropractic
children.
Blocked atlantal nerve syndrome in infants and small
children. Gutman G. ICA Review, 1990; July:37-42. Originally
published in German Manuelle Medizin (1987) 25:5-10.
From the
abstract:
Three case reports are reviewed to illustrate a syndrome
that has so far received far too little attention and which
is caused and perpetuated in babies and infants by blocked
nerve impulses at the atlas. Included in the clinical picture
are lowered resistance to infections, especially to ear-,
nose- and throat infections, two cases of insomnia, two cases
of cranial bone asymmetry and one case each of torticollis,
retarded locomotor development, retarded linguistic development,
conjunctivitis, tonsillitis, rhinitis, earache, extreme neck
sensitivity, incipient scoliosis, delayed hip development
and seizures.
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