SPONTANEOUS RELEASE BY POSITIONING

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You can always tell when you've discovered the correct position because the patient will be comfortable. The person may be barely able to sit, walk, or stand up, but when you have the correct position the person will be at ease. The very posture that put the initial strain on the back is now taking the strain off the back. Says Dr. Jones: Even the severest lesions will readily tolerate being returned to the position in which lesion formation originally occurred, and only to this position. When the joint is returned to this position, the muscles promptly and gratefully relax. These joints do not cause distress because they are crooked; they are paining because they are being forced to be too straight. This is the mechanism of strain.

In other words, the muscles are "used" to the strain, and contract to hold the bone out of place. When the person tries to straighten up, the bones won't, because the muscles won't let them. And the muscles won't relax because the bones are out of alignment. That is why heating pads, rubs, medicines, and "learn to live with it" do not solve the problem. Because those approaches do not reposition the bone, the muscle cannot relax to normal. That's why there is pain.

How to eliminate the pain? Reposition the bone back to normal. How then to reposition the bone(s) to normal? Reposition the person's body to the extreme but now comfortable posture so the muscles will relax. You then hold the person in that position, as the person relaxes, for 90 seconds. Then, still relaxing, the person is brought back around slowly to a normal posture. It is found that the bone that was out returns with the rest of the spine to normal position.

To better find exactly which vertebrae are out, and also to demonstrate to yourself that the bones do in fact realign and pain does in fact disappear, it would be good to utilize what are called "trigger points" along the spine. Looking at the back, one can see the spinal column as a stack of bumps. To either side of the vertebra will be a trigger point. The distance out from the bump will be about one to two inches. Dr. Jones describes specific trigger locations in detail in the paper, and tells how to use them individually.

Nerves emerge from between the vertebrae in your back. Each vertebra has side projections, like wings, and a back spine which you see as a "teacup handle" or bump. If a given vertebra is misaligned, the nerve on one or both sides of that bone will be tender. This is because the bone's twisted or subluxated condition puts pressure on the nerve emerging to each side of it. Therefore, if you press there, it may hurt quite a bit. That's how you can tell which bones are out. Gently go up and down the spine and press lightly about one inch out to either side of each vertebral spine or "bump." Where there's pain, that's where the' nerve is under pressure, and that's where the bone is out. And that's the trigger point for that bone.

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