Torque Release Technique
Study relates association between chiropractic care and state of well-being.
Holder, J. M. "Chiropractic Research Earns International Prestige: Chiropractic care and state of well-being." Canadian Chiropractor 6 (2001): 22-23.
“This is the first time chiropractic research has been published in a journal of such international importance and prestige in the world scientific community. Nature Publishing Group's flagship journal, Nature, is the highest-rated peer-reviewed scientific journal in the world. The purpose of the study was to determine if subluxation correction would allow for greater fulfilment of human potential in the arena of "state of well-being," a fundamental principle within chiropractic philosophy. However, until now, no randomized placebo controlled studies had been conducted that put chiropractic's philosophy to the test, only studies that provided outcomes in the treatment of specific conditions or symptoms had been done (mainly limited to musculoskeletal intervention).”
“Addicts were chosen for the study population since addicts best represent those persons suffering from Reward Deficiency Syndrome (a lack of state of well-being) and its relationship to the Brain Reward Cascade. Therefore, the study was conducted at Exodus Addiction Treatment Center, a 350-bed Addiction hospital located in Miami, Florida. During the 18-month study, the patient population was divided into three test groups. Group One received standard addiction treatment including group therapy, psychotherapy and medical care. Group two received the same addiction treatment but was also provided subluxation-based chiropractic adjustments using the Torque Release Technique delivered via the use of the Integrator adjusting instrument. Group Three was the placebo group which received the same addiction treatment performed in Group One and two, but was also provided placebo chiropractic adjustments by modifying the Integrator to fire without any force or frequency characteristics.”
“Just 56 per cent of Group One finished their treatment program, compared with 75 per cent of Group Three (placebo group), but this was not statistically significant thereby failing to support that chiropractic had a placebo effect. However, 100 per cent of the patients in Group two receiving true chiropractic adjustments finished their treatment program. This 100 per cent Retention Rate has never been accomplished by any other modality including pharmaceutical, psychological or medical treatment. Retention Rate is the "gold standard" in the field of addiction treatment. It is the primary yardstick for funding treatment programs that government funding agencies and drug courts use to fund and/or refer patients to. There are now over 400 drug courts requiring treatment instead of incarceration throughout the United States. The Miami Drug Court was the first.”
“In addition, Group two also made far fewer visits to the nurse's station and showed statistically significant decreases in anxiety, a leading cause of relapse to addicts. Only nine per cent of those receiving adjustments by Torque Release Technique made one or more visits to the nurse's station while in the program, compared to 56 per cent of the placebo group and 48 per cent of the usual care group, This suggests that the chiropractic adjustments not only lacked a placebo effect, but that the placebo group did the worst. This was quite important since our detractors like to blame chiropractic's success on some sort of placebo effect; they certainly can't in this case.”
“The Torque Release Technique and the Integrator were created out of this study by accident. In designing the study I had to find a way to ensure consistency and reproducibility in the application of delivering the chiropractic adjustment and to measure its outcome.”
“That's what the Integrator can now perform, and at a speed of 1/10,000 of a second, along with recoil and a trip tip. The Integrator became the first chiropractic device to apply to the FDA. In 1995, a 510K medical device designation was granted by the FDA, which specified that the Integrator was found safe and effective for the correction of vertebral subluxation. This historic action meant that now a second federal agency had acknowledged the subluxation / chiropractic.”
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