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In this issue we will share information about writing for publications and some interesting presentations at the recent SOT Research Conference in Nashville. Do we have innate knowledge? Is there a relationship between spine and facial structure? What is the "numbers needed to treat" mean? Do you remember? ... A quick review of the history of chiropractic and AMA.

 

Writing for Publication


 The Case Report

Writing for Publication
We at SOTO-USA want to help educate the chiropractic profession and support further SOT research to help improve healthcare and patient care. When you go to the page on how to write a case report you will receive everything you could need to get started. On the right hand side of the page are also many other articles you may find of value.

Please contact me if you have any questions or if you are interested in submitting research for the May 2012 4th Annual SOT Research Conference in Atlanta Georgia. Deadline for paper submissions is February 28, 2012.

Writing for Publication 


 

3rd Annual SOT Research Conference
 May 19, 2011, Nashville Tennessee

SOT Reesarch Conference This year's 3rd Annual SOT Research Conference was dynamic and exciting and before we knew it, it was over. We had many fascinating presentations and most will be submitted to other conferences and the peer review literature.

Among the various types of presentations at this year's conference I will share a sampling of a few::

Dov Pine from Life Chiropractic College presented a landmark paper introducing Ayurvedic principles and manual methods for integration with SOT CMRT procedures.

Christine Benner, DC, LAc for the second year presented a paper on the integrative relationship of SOT's CMRT and acupuncture for the treatment of a visceral related condition, in this case a patient with a hormonal and menstrual related presentation.

Charles Beck, DO presented two cases where treatment of chronic headaches or back pain incorporated cranial analysis and assessment to facilitate an optimal optometric prescription and eyeglass position on the face.

Harvey Getzoff, DC presented two papers with a common theme of how to incorporate orthopedic and neurological examinations into SOT's system of analysis and treatment. His ability to help us step back and see the big picture to integrate various forms of analysis was inspiring.

3rd Annual SOT Research Conference · Purchase the Conference Proceedings - click here 


 

Do we have innate knowledge?.
 A synaptic organizing principle for cortical neuronal groups

Blue Brain Neuroscientists working on Blue Brain Project at EPFL are finding proof that this it does appear we have an innate knowledge. They've discovered that neurons make connections independently of a subject's experience. Their results have been published in an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

It does seem that like Jung has said we may have a "collective unconscious," and according to this new research it may be hard-wired within our genes. For instance we know that music has a similar meaning across the world and cultures.

For more on this see:

Music and Evolution: The Nature of the Evidence by Ian Cross and Iain Morley

Universals in music: A perspective from cognitive psychology. by Dane L. Harwood.

A synaptic organizing principle for cortical neuronal groups - click here 


 

Correlation Between Facial Asymmetry, Shoulder Imbalance, and Adolescent 
Idiopathic Scoliosis
 Spine Orthopedics. June 2011;34(6):439.

Posture and Occlusion
As the fields of chiropractic and dentistry team up to treat ascending and descending aspects of occlusion, condylar position, and airway space issues it is helpful to find corroborating studies that support this relationship between structure and function of the spine and its affect on craniofacial morphology.

This study found a correlation between facial asymmetry, shoulder imbalance, and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Anterior nasal spine-menton angle and clavicle-rib intersection difference was higher in the severe scoliosis and double thoracic groups than in the other groups. In addition, In the treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, surgeons should consider systemic-related anomalies such as facial and shoulder asymmetry.

Correlation Between Facial Asymmetry, Shoulder Imbalance, and Adolescent 
Idiopathic Scoliosis · click here 


 

What is the "numbers needed to treat?"
 Expanding our understand of research and its significance

Numbers
There is a way of understanding how much modern medicine has to offer individual patients. It is a simple statistical concept called the "Number-Needed-to-Treat", or for short the 'NNT'. The NNT offers a measurement of the impact of a medicine or therapy by estimating the number of patients that need to be treated in order to have an impact on one person. The concept is statistical, but intuitive, for we know that not everyone is helped by a medicine or intervention - some benefit, some are harmed, and some are unaffected.

The NNT is an intuitive and simple way of estimating how likely it is that a treatment or medicine will help an individual person. And it turns out that the NNT for a drug or intervention is easily calculated from the results of any trial done on that drug or intervention. Since most drugs and interventions have been studied at some point we know and can estimate an NNT for many (if not most) of the things that we do, which means that physicians and their patients can easily determine and discuss the likelihood that a patient will be helped, or harmed, or unaffected, by a given medication or procedure.

Explore this site and you will be interested to see how some common things recommended for our patients have been found to do nothing or the risk is far greater than any possible benefit.

For instance just looking at antibiotics for otitis media we find that:
  • 100% saw no benefit (reduction of serious complications: mastoiditis, meningitis, hearing loss)

  • 100% saw no benefit (reduced late recurrence)

  • 100% saw no benefit (pain reduction after 24 hours)

  • 6% had reduced pain (after 2-7 days)

  • 11% were harmed (diarrhea)

Number-Needed-to-Treat · click here 


 

Chiropractic's Fight for Legitimacy
 Virtual Mentor. June 2011;13(6): 384-8.

Chiropractic Cartoon "Although the chiropractic profession now occupies a largely mainstream place in the health care spectrum of the United States, this has not always been the case. From its formation in 1895 by founder Daniel David (D. D.) Palmer, the chiropractic profession faced a plan of containment and elimination by the American Medical Association (AMA) that continued for nearly a century.

"It took an antitrust lawsuit filed against the AMA in 1976 to reveal the magnitude and scope of the AMA's plan. Despite generations of organized medical opposition, chiropractors did what most other groups of professionals failed to do: they maintained a separate and distinct identity from the practice of medicine while growing in an otherwise hostile environment created by the AMA and its component state associations."

Chiropractic's Fight for Legitimacy - for full article click here 


Sacro Occipital Technique Organization - USA is a 501c3 non-profit, professional organization formed to promote the awareness, understanding and utilization of the Sacro Occipital Technique method of chiropractic as founded and developed by Dr. Major Bertrand DeJarnette.

The SOTO-USA family all looks forward to seeing you May 2012, for the 2012 Clinical Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia. It will be a great opportunity to learn the essence of SOT or advance your SOT training with integrative classes in SOT, CMRT, and Cranial.

For those interested in working with the dental profession treating TMD then this symposium is light years ahead of anything else available. We will begin the first part of the 4-part TMJ Chiropractic Certification Course at this seminar.


Charles L. Blum, DC
Sacro Occipital Technique Organization - USA

phone: 336-793-6524
fax: 336-372-1541