Our INSiGHT scanning technology is non-invasive, and safe for any age and case history. It helps to find, measure, and quantify subluxation.

The following studies help to quantify and provide evidence of the legitimacy of using this scanning technology for the purpose of understanding nervous system health and healing progress.

Thermography:

It is a non-invasive, rolling segmental thermal scanner that uses infrared sensors to take temperature readings. This innovative piece of chiropractic equipment was designed to evaluate autonomic nerve function. It uses normative comparison and reporting based on data from the Journal of Neurosurgery. This patented breakthrough lets chiropractors take readings from any sized spine whether it be newborn, infant, child or adult. world. This technology is also being used in the locker rooms of many famous sports teams including the Detroit Lions, Indianapolis Colts, and Baltimore Ravens. Perhaps most impressively, the Insight has been used in NASA’s space program.

Thermography has long been acknowledged in the scientific community as being an accurate and reproducible technology. In fact, there are over 5000 references to thermography on Medline. Indications in the medical field include breast pathology, deep vein thrombosis, and muscle injury.

Thermal technology has been around for over a century. The first thermal patent for healthcare use was applied for in 1924, by Dossa Evins. Later that year, B.J. Palmer started utilizing thermal technology to measure his patient’s response to chiropractic care.

Uematsu, Sumio, et al. "Quantification of thermal asymmetry: part 1: normal values and reproducibility." Journal of neurosurgery 69.4 (1988): 552-555.

McCoy, M. "Paraspinal thermography in the analysis and management of vertebral subluxation: a review of the literature." Ann Vert Sublux Res 2011.3 (2011): 57-66.

Hart, John, et al. "Reliability of three methods of computer-aided thermal pattern analysis." The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association 51.3 (2007): 175.

Surface Electromyography:

Surface electrode paraspinal electromyography has been employed since 1948 to measure muscular activity. Reliability is a measure of the ability to reproduce a measurement, which is expressed as a coefficient ranging from 0.00 to 1.00. Perfect reliability results in a coefficient of 1.00, while chance agreement would be 0.0. As presented below, research data indicates that the reliability of SEMG is clearly superior to palpation for muscle tension. Surface electrode electromyography with attached electrodes exhibits very good to excellent test-retest reliability.

Surface EMG technology is the same technology used in ECG [electrocardiogram] heart-rate measurement machines, a standard assessment tool used in hospitals. Primary difference- The Insight scanners have to be 1,000 more sensitive, since the paraspinal muscles generate less electrical activity [action potential] than the heart muscle.

According to other sEMG manufacturers who market to the medical profession, the following medical specialties have utilized surface EMG since the late 1980’s: Urologists for diagnosis and treatment of urinary incontinence, Orthopedists for muscle rehab and training, Physiologists for anxiety, tension/migraine headaches, rehab, General practitioners for circulation problems, anxiety, desensitization, distonia [muscle tonus], incontinence, spasms, relaxation, psychosomatic symptoms, Neurologists for anxiety, muscle training and rehab, spasms, Speech pathologists for anxiety, relaxation, Sports Medicine for muscle training and rehab, Corporate Medicine for muscle training and rehab, Psychiatrists and psychologists for anxiety, desensitization, psychosomatic symptoms, tortocollis, writer’s cramp, phobias, Rehab centers for muscle training, relaxation, spasms, and urinary incontinence, Occupational therapists for muscle training/rehab, relaxation, migraine headaches, and Dentists for TMJ, anxiety, tension/migraine headaches.

Normative Data for Paraspinal Surface Electromyographic Scanning Using a 25-500 Hz Bandpass Patrick Gentempo, Jr. D.C., Christopher Kent, D.C., Brett Hightower, D.C., Salvatore J. Minicozzi, D.C. Published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research, August 1996, Vol 1, No. 1

The Clinical Application of Surface Electromyography as an Objective Measure of Change in the Chiropractic Assessment of Patient Progress: A Pilot Study Simon Kelly, W. R. Boone, Ph.D., D.C. Published in the JVSR, December 1998, Vol 2, No. 4

Inter-examiner and Intra-examiner Reliability of Static Paraspinal Surface Electromyography, presented at the International Research and Philosophy Symposium, November 3-5, 2006, Spartenburg, SC. Matthew McCoy, B.S., D.C.1; Robert Blanks, Ph.D. 2; Ismay Campbell, B.S., D.C.3; Pamela Stone, B.S., D.C., F.I.C.P.A.4; Curtis Fedorchuk, D.C. 5; Ian George, B.A.6; Nicole Jastremski, M.Sc, M.A.7; Lauren Butaric, M.A.8

Spector B. Surface electromyography as a model for the development of standardized procedures and reliability testing. JMPT 1979; 2(4):214.

Cram JR, Lloyd J, Cahn TS. The reliability of EMG muscle scanning. Int J Psychosomatics 1994; 41:41.

Heart Rate Variability:

Analysis of the beat-to-beat intervals of the heart may be used to evaluate the balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the autonomic nervous system. Variability in heart rate reflects the vagal and sympathetic function of the autonomic nervous system, and has been used as a monitoring tool in clinical conditions characterized by altered autonomic nervous system activity.

Vertebral subluxations are changes in the position or motion of a vertebra which result in the interference with nerve function. Vertebral subluxations may result in altered autonomic nervous system activity. Heart rate variability is a reliable and valid tool that may be used to assess the changes in autonomic activity associated with the reduction and correction of vertebral subluxations.

Kent, Christopher. "Heart rate variability to assess the changes in autonomic nervous system function associated with vertebral subluxation." Res Rev Neurosci 1 (2017): 14-21.

Shafiq, Hasan, Carolyn McGregor, and Bernadette Murphy. "The impact of cervical manipulation on heart rate variability." 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE, 2014.

Eingorn, Alex M., and George J. Muhs. "Rationale for assessing the effects of manipulative therapy on autonomic tone by analysis of heart rate variability." Journal of manipulative and physiological therapeutics 22.3 (1999): 161-165.

Roy, Richard A., Jean P. Boucher, and Alain S. Comtois. "Heart rate variability modulation after manipulation in pain-free patients vs patients in pain." Journal of manipulative and physiological therapeutics 32.4 (2009): 277-286.