Technique

The Art of Chiropractic
The art of chiropractic is the technique used to free the nervous system, so that this inborn intelligence can provide life from birth to death. There are many techniques which makes the Art heterogeneous, but these are all subject to change. And there may be more places than the spine where energy is interfered with, i.e., TMJ, memory, even environment, and maybe other ways and areas not yet known.

ANY technique to free this innate intelligence without interfering with the body's WISDOM, whether man or machine or instrument, is the ART. The Art is a PRACTICE, and may change many times from the womb to the tomb based on improvement from scientific research. It is NOT a principle. The Art does not always work and includes all techniques to free energy (intelligence) to heal the body.

Diversified Technique
This is standard osseous (bony) adjusting of the full spine. There are some 58 "set-ups" for correction of the spine (called Spinal Manipulation), and some 140 for correction of extremities (called Extra-Spinal Manipulation), such as used for knee, ankle, elbow, shoulder and wrist.

Gonstead Technique
A full spine, specific technique using a particular protocol and very thorough chiropractic diagnostic procedures, including palpation, spinographs, instrumentation and the use of individual Gonstead tables.

Thompson Technique
A table-assisted technique for the full spine with standard protocols, using a drop-piece on the Thompson table for the adjustment.

Upper Cervical Technique
Originating with the famous "toggle recoil" of chiropractic's historical developer, B.J. Palmer, the technique concentrates on correction of a singular vertebra, the atlas and sometimes the axis (C2).

Sacro Occipital Technique 
A technique which assesses the patient using a number of particular physical indicators to determine which of three primary categories the patient is presenting with.  This in turn gives rise to a specific procedure for that category, along with further ancillary procedures to work with the patient's skeletal, cranial and neurological systems in order to restore a more optimum level of balance and function.

Activator Technique
Parker College teaches both the basic and advanced technique, which uses a percussive instrument to deliver the chiropractic adjustment, and incorporates a specialized diagnostic system.

Flexion-Distraction Technique
A spinal technique which utilizes a motorized table to assist in the vertebral correction, in which the adjustment is delivered to the patient during the motion of the table.

Applied Kinesiology Technique
The muscle testing work of Dr. George Goodheart, which gives specific indicators of weak and strong muscle groups through a series of specific challenges, and includes diagnostic procedures for finding subluxations, fixations, reflexes and cranial faults.

Myofascial Technique
An advancement of the original work in Trigger Points, where the technique is extended so that spinal and other trigger points on the body are located while the patient is led through a range of motion, rather than while static.