Dr. M.B. DeJarnette

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S.O.T. CREATES THINKERS

SOT Bulletin, May 1978

S.O.T. CREATES THINKERS

Some of the best minds in chiropractic are in S.O.T. When anything works as well as does the Category Blocking system, you naturally think, and in thinking you solve a lot of problems. We never ask anyone to dogmatically accept our doctrines. We ask you to understand our doctrines and use them and if you can, add to them. S.O.T. is never a closed circuit. We ask S.O.T. doctors to let the blocks work to full advantage. This means that if you must adjust articulations to keep yourself and your misinformed patients happy, then do adjust, but immediately follow with the indicated category blocking. The blocks will lessen the trauma of all types of physical attacks upon the human body. All forceful adjustments have to be attack problems. The blocks do not insult or traumatize. They gently coax parts back into position and function.

Nothing in all of the healing arts is as specific as are the blocking techniques of S.O.T. and nothing corrects so perfectly or so rapidly and with such dramatic ease.

If the blocks made a lot of noise and mauled the patients here and there for thirty minutes, some chiropractors would like them. Many cannot visualize the effects of proper blocking.

Nothing that is as good as S.O.T. can go without imitators, and imitators never understand the problem. They simply imitate to make money. You can expect results only when you do all things scientifically. The Major constantly sees doctors at various seminars blocking with shoes, rolled up coats, and even doubled up fists. This is better than nothing, but if repeated, is disastrous.

S.O.T. CHANGES

Suppose you graduated from medical college in 1925 and are still in practice today. Everything you do is different than what you were taught in college.

Look at chiropractic. Supposing you graduated in 1925, and supposing you go back in 1978 for a refresher. Probably you will study out of the same technique book you studied in 1925. That might prove chiropractic so correct in 1925 that it can never change, or it might prove that chiropractic colleges won't change chiropractic thinking.

What we did in S.O.T. in 1930 would not even be recognized if you studied S.O.T. in 1978. Research is a study of what you have, and what you need to make it better, and how to make it better is the final research step.

S.O.T. never wants to be just good. It always wants to be better and best and greatest and most dependable.

In S.O.T. research we do not begin with causes, but with needs and how to provide those needs with applicable principles. When we have time and have satisfied our need, we then study the causative angles and the "why" questions. Knowing what causes a thing helps to satisfy ones curiosity, but to fix the problem, you have to know "how." People pay for the "how" business.

When we need to change in S.O.T. we change, and that brings in a flock of questions. The old way seemed good enough, but to the Major it wasn't, so we moved ahead.

ORTHOPEDIC BLOCKING

We have published various types of orthopedic blocking techniques. If you will follow this rule, you will simplify this experience and if you wish, you can add to it.

PRONE POSITION

Spinous processes right lumbar region…You wish to move them in a concentric manner spinous right as if around an axis which is the body of the vertebra. Block will be positioned under left A.S.I.S. which is the side towards which you wish to move the spinous processes. The theory is "in the prone position, all rotated vertebra will move toward the high side." The left block elevates the left hip and causes it to become the high side. The spinous processes are right of center, so if they move to the high side, they will concentrically move to the left. Take your own X-rays in this position and see for yourself.

SUPINE POSITION

This is the Category Two position. There may be times in which you feel a lumbar vertebra should be rotated. We find that this is seldom needed, but so many chiropractors want to move vertebra and this is how you would do it in the supine position.

In this supine position all spinous processes will rotate to the low side. You then have a block under the P.S.S. on the side of spinous movement, so those spinouses will move away from the high block, to the "no block" side.

Dr. Keith Bastian of Australia has written a very interesting article on his experience with orthopedic blocking. Dr. Bastian has made a study in depth in this area, and I once again urge those of you who will read to subscribe to the Australian S.O.T. Bulletin. It is $15.00 per year and comes Air Mail and the fifteen just about pays postage. The address would be: Dr. Keith Bastian or Dr. Scott Parker, Box 238, Grafton, N.S.W. 2460, Australia.

In several of our S.O.T. manuals for each year, you will find descriptions of our orthopedic blocking techniques. All the back years such as 1965 - 1967 - 1968 - 1969 - 1970 - 1971 - 1971 - 1972 - 1974 - 1975 - 1976 and 1977 all contain information usable today and needed today. We simply cannot repeat year to year the useful parts of each manual. Someday as a final gesture, we are going to compile into one book, all of the information we have had in the annual manuals since 1960. That is a sort of a promise. If you are interested in any of the back issues above listed, they are $20.00 each. Use order blank on back of bulletin. Send check to Dr. M. B. De Jarnette, Box 338, Nebraska City, Nebraska 68410.

CRANIAL TECHNIQUE 1978

First of all, everyone needs cranial correction of some type. No human is immune to this need. It is seldom that the need for cranial correction is acute, and that is why it is grossly overlooked. The cranium cries out for help when one of its special nerves gets trapped and only then. You can virtually have a busted head and the pain is minor. The cranial pains you do feel are of the migraine or various headache types and they cause cranial pain only because they interrupt the flow of blood and C.S.F. If it were not for the skin covering the cranium, the bones themselves are not pain sources. The sutural systems are subject to stress and do suffer pain, but again, such pain is felt basically as headaches or neuralgias.

Telephone calls and letters come into this office daily describing some palsied or hydrocephalic, or epileptic, or muscular sclerotic or some such disability or deformity that prevents a normal life expression. All want to know what cranial technique can do. Seldom does someone ask what cranial technique can do for a sciatica that will not respond or a bursitis that defies all good corrections.

Cranial technique is, of course, specific for the cranium, but the cranium houses the mechanisms that control the total body. Fully 80% of your failures or other doctors' failures are due to lack of knowledge of the cranial structures involved. Nothing can function without direction, and the contents of the cranium contain the direction forces for 80% of man's functions.