The Neurobiologic Mechanisms in Manipulative Therapy

Chapter 1 The Contribution of Clinical Observation to Neurobiological Mechanisms in Manipulative Therapy

Chapter 2 Muscles, Central Nervous Motor Regulation and Back Problems

Chapter 3 Manipulative Therapy in Relation to Total Health Care

Chapter 4 The Clinical Basis for Discussion of Mechanisms of Manipulative Therapy

Chapter 5 Somatic Sources of Afferent Input as Factors in Aberrant Autonomic, Sensory and Motor Function

Chapter 6 Discussion

Chapter 7 Traumatized Nerves, Roots and Ganglia: Musculoskeletal Factors and Neuropathological Consequences

Chapter 8 Discussion of Excitation and Conduction in Traumatized Nerves

Chapter 9 Somatoautonomic Reflexology — Normal and Abnormal

Chapter 10 Autonomic System Reactions Caused by Excitation of Somatic Afferents: Study of Cutaneo-Intestinal Reflex

Chapter 11 Sustained Sympathicotonia as a Factor in Disease

Chapter 12 Axonal Transport: The Mechanisms and Their Susceptibility to Derangement; Anterograde Transport

Chapter 13 Transfer of Information from Effector Organs to Innervating Neurons by Retrograde Axonal Transport of Macromolecules

Chapter 14 Discussion and Short Reports on Axonal Transport

Chapter 15 Impairment of Intraneural Microcirculation, Blood-Nerve Barrier and Axonal Transport in Experimental Nerve Ischemia and Compression

Chapter 16 Discussion

Chapter 17 Calcium and the Mechanism of Axoplasmic Transport

Chapter 18 Discussion

Chapter 19 Trophic Changes in Afflictions of the Motor Unit

Chapter 20 Wing Flapping and Other Moving Topics: A Developmental Perspective

Chapter 21 Clinical Observations and Emerging Questions

Chapter 22 Impulse-Based Mechanisms

Chapter 23 Nonimpulse-Based Mechanisms

Chapter 24 Chairman’s Concluding Statement