From the Abstract:

To report on a female patient who presented for chiropractic care with a two‐month history of recurrent pseudoseizures. Clinical Features: A 14 year‐old female presented for chiropractic care with a history of 30‐40 pseudoseizure events per month. Intervention and Outcome: Over a period of five months, a specific, conservative chiropractic adjustment regimen for the correction of vertebral subluxation was administered to the patient. The care plan was modified in accordance with outcome assessment measures, and during this time period the patient experienced a dramatic decrease in symptoms and frequency of seizures. Static electromyography (EMG) and thermal scanning were performed using the Chiropractic Leadership Alliance (CLA) Insight surface EMG and thermal scanning technology. Improvements were noted on the static and thermal surface EMG’s over the course of the patient’s care. The patient remains under chiropractic care at the time of this report, and has been seizure free for seven months. While under chiropractic care, the patient experienced a resolution of all seizure activity. This case indicates the potential for chiropractic care to provide a non‐invasive, non‐drug based management of children with epilepsy and seizure disorders. However, further studies and research need to be done in order to explain how chiropractic can positively benefit those suffering from seizure disorders.

Brown, C., and A. Swenson. "Resolution of recurrent pseudoseizures in a 14‐year‐old female using Torque Release Technique: a case study." Annals of Vertebral Subluxation Research (2014): 49-54.

“A seizure is characterized by an abnormal discharge of nerve cells in the brain that can cause altered awareness or abnormal sensations, involuntary movements or convulsion. Pseudoseizures are thought to be psychogenic but their genesis remains unknown. They are identical in their presentation and symptomatology to grand mal seizures, but lack the presence of neurological activity visualized on an EEG.”

“The following case report details chiropractic care and management of a 14-year-old girl suffering from pseudoseizures that mimicked an identical presentation to both tonic-clonic and absence seizures. Her seizures were idiopathic in origin, meaning that no psychogenic or other cause, such as trauma, was found to contribute to the onset of the seizures. Idiopathic epilepsy occurs in approximately 75% of young adults with epilepsy and typically begins between the ages of 2 and 14 years.”

“The patient began care and was analyzed and adjusted as indicated by TRT analysis two to three times per week. Subluxations found by TRT analysis indicated subluxations of C1, C2, C5, sphenoid, occiput and coccyx most often. By her sixth visit, the patient had gone without a seizure for eight days - the longest time period since her seizures began three months prior. On her eighth visit the patient experienced a tonic-clonic (grand mal) like seizure (pseudoseizure) while in the office. It was noted that any time the patient experienced a seizure her left leg would be short. When no seizure activity had recently occurred her right leg would be short. During the course of her care her seizures became less and less frequent. Following the grand mal event in the office and the subsequent adjustment the patient again had an eight day seizure free period. Her next seizure free period was 23 days and on her 18th visit she presented without indicators for an adjustment. Approximately 5 months after initiating care the thermal scan was updated and while preparation was being performed with an alcohol swab to clean the skin the patient began to shake and became slow to respond. A seizure did not ensue. Three weeks later the patient had a similar reaction as she did to the alcohol after spraying perfume on her arm but again no seizure ensued. Rolling Thermal Scan After 5 Months metal toxicity was suspected as a possible cause for the seizures and a hair sample was taken with the results being negative. Outcomes following the two episodes where the patient displayed signs associated with the prodromal phase of a seizure no other signs and symptoms have since presented. The patient has remained seizure free, returned to school 8 months following the initiation of care and was even participating in physical education class. The patient remains under chiropractic care as of this writing being analyzed for subluxation one time per week. In addition to the resolution of her symptoms significant changes were shown on the static thermal scans during the course of her care. This data indicates that normal function had returned to her autonomic nervous system after five months of care.”