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CHIROPRACTIC PROGNOSIS 

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Prognosis is the determining, in advance of the fact, 

of the probable course, duration, or outcome of a disease. 

A Chiropractic prognosis is a prediction as to the changes 

which will take place in a case during and after Chiro- 

practic adjustments. 

General Prognosis is an opinion expressed of a disease 

without reference to any particular case. It is based upon 

the experience of the profession and the average result 

obtained with the disease. It furnishes only a basis for 

consideration of the special prognosis of an individual 

case. This latter must be based upon the general prog- 

nosis of the disease and upon study of every modifying 

factor present in the case, as general vitality, living habits, 

facility of adjustment, apparent response to early adjust- 

ments, and especially an estimate of the amount and kind 

of damage done to tissue and the probability of its repair. 

Only general prognosis can be set down as a guide to 

others. To state even this with certainty and safety 

many precautions must be observed. All cases included 

as a basis of conclusions must be handled under standard 

test conditions (see index) as far as may be; in accept- 

ing the observations of others one must be sure that 

they are sufficiently trained and sufficiently careful and 

veracious to render their statements reliable. 

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The Axis, or second Cervical, is distinguished by its 

large, strong spinous process, which is bifid at its tip, by its 

superior articular processes which rest upon body, pedicles, 

and transverses, and by its odontoid process, upreared from 

the body. 

The Seventh Cervical, or Vertebral Prominens, usually 

has a large spinous process, presents no foramina in its 

transverse processes, or only one, the left, and shows no 

facets on body or transverse for the rib articulation, as do 

the Dorsals. 

The Sacrum is the largest vertebra; is curved with its 

convexity backward; is commonly made up of five fused 

segments ; has only rudimentary spinous and transverse 

processes except the first ; and shows sixteen openings, eight 

anterior and eight posterior, or four on either side of the 

median line in front and the same number and arrangement 

behind. These openings permit the exit of the anterior and 

posterior primary divisions of the sacral nerves separately. 

The Coccyx, usually composed of four fused segments, 

is a triangular bone which articulates with the Sacrum 

above and is free at its distal extremity. Fairfax Chiropractic Its portion of the 

neural canal is open posteriorly and contains merely the 

thread-like termination of the cord membranes.

 

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