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Article: The Evidence Based Educator: 10 mm/Hg
- Article from:
- Dynamic Chiropractic
- Article date:
- February 12, 2004
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Each patient education article in "The Evidence-Based Educator" details research documented in Somatovisceral Aspects of Chiropractic : An Evidence-Based Approach, co-edited by Dr. Masarsky and Marion Todres-Masarsky, DC.
Some aspects of chiropractic science lend themselves to a brief demonstration. The finding by Sharpless in the 1970s that as little as 10 mm/Hg of pressure can disrupt the function of a spinal nerve root is one such aspect.
Before discussing this topic, you might try putting a blood pressure cuff on one of your patients and inflating it to 10 mm/Hg. The patient will probably agree that this is not very much pressure, and that he or she could easily tolerate that level of ...