Deans' stroke musings: Chiropractic force

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Monday, April 18, 2016

Chiropractic force

Why you don't ever want your neck adjusted. Do you trust your chiropractor to know exactly the limits to not damage your neck? Stiff arteries may have even less force needed for damage. Do you know how stiff your vertebral arteries are?

Chiropractic force

Chiropractic physics

A Newton, big N, is the measure of force.
It is named after a famous fig cookie…no, sorry, a bit of misunderstanding. It is named after Isaac Newton from the second law of motion. Force equal mass time acceleration.

Pictured: Serious business.

How much force does chiropractic generate with its high-velocity-low-amplitude manipulations?
They aim for about 400 to 600 Newtons when teaching chiropractic students, although this force only lasts for about 135 milliseconds.
But just how many cookies does 400–500 Newtons represent? Minimum of 2,680 cookies. That is a lot of cookies hitting a neck all at once, especially with the force concentrated at a point, even if for 135 milliseconds.
A kilogram of mass is 9.8 Newtons.
A 70 kg human? 686 Newtons. That is the force measured on the bottom of the feet as you stand on the ground.
Move the force measurement to the neck. If you were to suspend a body by the neck with a noose, the force measured at spine and surrounding soft tissues would also be 686 Newtons.
For a brief period of time, chiropractic applies 58% to 87% of the force of a suspended hanging.
A judicial hanging has drop, and this leads to a force of around 1200 N, “sufficient to produce a subluxation of C2 and C3 vertebra.”