or manipulation?
The art of chiropractic is often misunderstood as bone manipulation… however, the act consists in a accurate specific adjustment done according to the examination findings which determine the necessity of a vertebral adjustment (there must be an interference on the nerve pathways) and the particular listing of the subluxation which determines the exact line of drive of the chiropractic thrust… this makes all the difference between a therapeutic manipulation and a chiropractic adjustment and that explains why an adjustment needs only little force and is generally painless. But the story does not end there: since the adjustment is a stimulus induced by the chiropractor to elicit a physical response of the body in term of repositioning of the vertebra (the actual adjustment is the one effectuated by the body itself in response to the chiropractor’s adjustment), the post check done by the chiropractor (can be leg measurement in different situations, instrumentation and other tests) let
