subluxation
Noun
Meaning
An incomplete or partial dislocation.
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A spinal subluxation can sometimes impinge on spinal nerve roots, causing symptoms in the areas served by those roots.
Atlanto-axial subluxation can occur, owing to erosion of the odontoid process and/or transverse ligaments in the cervical spine 's connection to the skull.
As the disease advances, there may be bony erosions and subluxation.
D. D. Palmer, using a vitalistic approach, imbued the term subluxation with a metaphysical and philosophical meaning.
For A subluxation may have different meanings, depending on the medical specialty involved.
Thus, straight chiropractors are concerned primarily with the detection and correction of vertebral subluxation via adjustment and do not "mix" other types of therapies into their practice style.