QSM³ Articles
Vertical
The vertical axis and frontal plane have been a challenge to stabilize. The muscle tension that holds posture when misaligned is significant. Overcoming and stabilizing it is a fight against gravity and contraction. The Upper Cervical (UC) approach has, from just...
Tone to Tension Release
We all know that the human body endures trauma. This sets the stage for collapse and the recruitment, or activation, of a three-dimensional muscle contraction to prevent the body from falling over and collapsing under the force of gravity. This postural-structural...
Things We Can’t Measure: A Clinical Look at the Phenomenology of Posture
Things We Can’t Measure: a clinical look at the phenomenology of posture Note: This paper was originally published as a pre-print of The Upper Cervical Monograph, November 2010. It was recently removed from the NUCCA website so I am publishing it on the QSM3 website...
Putting the Neck Before the Head
Putting the Neck Before the Head Restoring the human frame to Orthogonal and Tensegral has become quite the task. For over a hundred years chiropractic was the only biomechanics method that investigated the task of restoring human balance. From the early chiropractic...
Subluxation is a Systemic Problem of the Whole Organism
It is now 120 years since D.D. Palmer first adjusted Harvey Lillard on the 4th floor of the Ryan building in Davenport, Iowa. He termed the basic malfunction to be “subluxation”. Definition of this ‘lesion’ has been problematic ever since. The various definitions...
Gravity and Energy
Gravity is the most degenerative stressor for our body’s health and vitality. There is nothing more destructive than the effects of the compression from gravity on our bodies as we are pulled earthward. No moment in time exists when we do not feel its full effect....