Dr. M.B. DeJarnette |
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Chronology of Critical Dates in Sacro Occipital Technic and in Major B. DeJarnette's Life |
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Critical Event or Achievement |
Date |
| Major B. DeJarnette was born | Dec. 23, 1899 |
| Injured in a boiler furnace explosion | 1920 |
| Graduated From Nebraska College of Chiropractic | Dec., 1924 |
| Announced the opening of his chiropractic Office in Nebraska City, NB | June 21, 1925 |
| Married | Oct. 14, 1925 |
| Founded Sacro Occipital Technic | 1925 |
| Pointed out the importance of the Occiput in spinal Therapy | 1926-1933 |
| Delineated the Dorsal-Cervical-Occipital localizations | 1925-1929 |
| And the inferior localization Fibers. Started research on the sacrum as related to the Occiput | 1928 |
| Founded Sacro Occipital Research Society | 1929 |
| Published his first Chiropractic Technic Book | 1930 |
| Developed the Co2 Technic | 1932 |
| Accepted only patients who had failed to secure results through chiropractic adjustments | 1931 - 1940 |
| "Spinal Distortions" and "Reflex Pain" published | 1934 |
| This was the beginning of the Category system as used in 1972. Taught diagnosis and adjustment of the occipital condyle compression and side-slip subluxations | 1935 |
| Did over 200 black light photos of spines and x-rayed. Over 250 patients in his research | 1936 |
| Occipital Analytical Analysis-started using the occipital fibers as indicators leading to the solution of the problem | 1936 |
| Delineated spinal zones, sympathetic zone and parasympathetic zones, and the importance of each | 1937 |
| Discovered and taught the "R" (resistance) and "C" (contraction) factors and their interaction and use | 1938 |
| Published "The Technic and Practice of Bloodless Surgery" | 1939 |
| Published "Sacro Occipital Technic of Spinal Therapy" | 1940 |
| Published "Sacro Occipital Technic" | 1940 |
| Started researching the cerebro spinal fluid production In the choroid plexus | 1949 - 1950 |
| Developed the three occipital lines | 1942 - 1949 |
| Released the Spinal Pump procedure | 1951 |
| Differentiated Line one, line two and line three adjustments, defined the innominate meningeal lesion, the sitting disc pump technic, the beginning of the stairstep correction and the S.B. - and S.B. + sacrolumbar subluxations | 1950 - 1955 |
| Investigated the oblique sacrum, the R plus C effect in adjusting the innominates and precise angulation of the upper leg in adjusting the lumbars | 1960 |
| Discovered and taught the anterior dorsal adjustment and the prone adjustment for occipital compression | 1961 |
| Piriformis and distortion research | 1961 |
| Continued to work with the Distortion analyzer, delineated the trapezius fibers and developed the Step out, Turn out and Cross over, Turn in corrections. Also developed the Subluxation of Motion. | 1963 |
| Researched the piriformis muscle as the basis for many pelvic distortions | 1964 |
| Published "The Oblique Sacrum and Related Subluxations" (The First Block technic was included) | 1964 |
| Block placement to equalize leg differences | 1965 |
| Delineated the significance of the three occipital lines: • Line one-Meningeal • Line two-Visceral • Line three-Pathological |
1966 |
| The Year of Adventure. Things were coming together | 1967 |
| Dollar and Crest sign adjustment (to control the Subluxation of Motion, among other things). The vasomotor revisited. | 1968 |
| Angle of Block placement was changed to Oblique | 1968 |
| Cough Test developed as a functional test for the Sacro Lumbar spine | 1968 |
| The Year of the Great Harvest • First appearance of the three categories and the orthopedic block techniques • New meaning to the crest and dollar signs • Improved Crest and dollar sign adjustments • Improvements in vasomotor technique |
1969 |
| Revisited the SOTO for sciatica. The painful elbow test and adjustment, frozen shoulder, shoulder bursitis. Test and adjustment. | 1972 |
| Monthly Sacro Occipital Technic research bulletins | 1933 -1960 |
| Published yearly manuals on SOT, bloodless surgery, etc., every year, starting about 1955 to the final edition in 1984. | 1955 - 1984 |
| Major B. DeJarnette Died | 1992 |
| The above is merely a brief synopsis. For further information, please read the book, The History of Sacro Occipital Technic, 1958, DeJarnette. |
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