1)       Increasing retention rates among the chemically dependent in residential treatment: auriculotherapy and subluxation-based chiropractic care: Molecular Psychiatry, Vol. 6, Supplement 1 - February, 2001, part 2, abstracts.    Click Here...

AURICULOTHERAPY:.. Because of the known calming effect of auriculotherapy (ear acupuncture) a randomized study of auriculotherapy versus a capsule placebo group was carried out in a residential setting among 66 residential patients... Patients who completed at least 10 days of auriculotherapy and did not receive intercurrent medications were more likely to complete the 30 day residential program than were patients in the comparison group.

CHIROPRACTIC: ...a randomized, placebo controlled, single blind study utilizing subluxation-based chiropractic care (Torque Release Technique) was implemented... Three groups were randomized: active treatment comprising daily adjustments to correct vertebral subluxations using the Integrator adjusting instrument; a placebo treatment utilizing the same instrument but set to deliver zero force; and, a usual care group... All of the Active group completed the 28-day program, while only 24 (75%) of the Placebo group and 19 (56%) of the Usual Care group completed 28 days...

2)       Chiropractic earns international prestige. Study relates association between chiropractic care and state of wellbeing: Canadian Chiropractor, October 2001, Vol 6, No. 5.      Click Here...

Results of a major chiropractic research study have been published, which show the remarkable effectiveness of subluxation-based chiropractic adjustments in patients suffering from addictions. The study appeared in Molecular Psychiatry, published by Nature, and is rated second in psychiatry and tenth in neurosciences out of hundreds of leading peer-reviewed medical research journals throughout the world…..

3)       Successful pregnancy following diagnosis of infertility and miscarriage: A chiropractic case report: Leslie Bedell. JVSR, Dec 2, 2003.   Click Here....

This case describes the chiropractic care of a woman with a history of infertility and miscarriage... After 60 days of care, a normal ovulatory cycle occurred, and she became pregnant after her second normal cycle... The article discusses the impact of stress on a woman’s nervous system, and the possible associated changes in reproductive health...

4)       Torque Release Technique in the clinical management of infertility related to cultural or religious-based lifestyle: Asher Nadler. JVSR, Niv 16, 2003.    Click Here...

This article explores the application of chiropractic, specifically Torque Release Technique™ (TRT), improvements in general health with an emphasis on neuroendocrine tone, and uterine cyclic function in a pre-menopausal female adult... The outcome included a shift in uterine cycle function which allowed this woman to follow the guidelines of her culture and be available to become pregnant...

5)       Female infertility and chiropractic wellness care: A case study on the autonomic nervous system response while under subluxation-based chiropractic care and subsequent fertility: Tammy M Kaminski. JVSR, Nov 2, 2003.    Click Here...

This case study describes a woman, previously diagnosed with a lazy (reproductive) system, who became pregnant after commencing subluxation-based chiropractic care... After receiving wellness chiropractic care for the detection and correction of vertebral subluxations, the practice member showed marked improvement in autonomic and motor system function as demonstrated on her sEMG and thermography scans. In addition, after having great difficulty conceiving, she became pregnant nine months after commencing chiropractic care...

6)       Reduction of vertebral subluxation using Torque Release Technique with changes in fertility: Two case reports: Elizabeth Anderson-Peacock. JVSR, July 19, 2003.    Click Here...

This article offers a description of two women who presented with varying complaints to a family-based chiropractic practice. In each case one of the complaints was infertility... In both case histories, the women had been deemed medically infertile and artificial insemination was being considered... During the course of chiropractic care both women were able to conceive... Although chiropractic care is not a treatment for infertility, it is postulated that improvement of spinal neural integrity through specific chiropractic adjustments may have contributed to improved homeostasis and physiological adaptation thus allowing the body to express a greater level of health as an outcome. Various effects via the reduction of the vertebral subluxation complex are postulated...

7)    Chiropractic Care of a Battered Woman: A Case Study. Leslie Bedell, D.C. JVSR: July 20, 2006, pp 1-6.   

This case study documents the chiropractic care of a battered woman struggling with Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Chiropractic offers battered women a unique service, it is the only profession trained and licensed to detect and correct vertebral subluxations. The relationship between the stresses of abuse and vertebral subluxation, as well as the subsequent changes during chiropractic care, are described.   Click Here...

8)   Quality of Life Improvements and Spontaneous Lifestyle Changes in a Patient Undergoing Subluxation-Centered Chiropractic Care: A Case Study. Yannick Pauli, D.C. JVSR: October 11, 2006, pg 1-15.    Click Here...

This case study is to report the improvement in quality of life experienced by a patient undergoing subluxation-centered chiropractic care... We discuss the various analyses employed to evaluate vertebral subluxations, including paraspinal surface electromyography and thermography. Adjustive care included a combination of Network Spinal Analysis, Torque Release Technique and diversified structural adjustments to correct vertebral subluxations over a six month period... This case study demonstrates that the correction of vertebral subluxations over an 11 month period was associated with significant improvements in the quality of life of the patient.

9)   Vertebral Subluxation Correction in an infant using Torque Release Technique. A Case Study: Elizabeth Anderson-Peacock. Canadian Chiropractor. Feature.    Click Here...

This case is a report of outcome of utilizing TRT indicators of “dis-ease” and subluxation and a protocol for adjustments in an infant with multiple immune problems…

10)       A tonal solution for subluxation patterns. Torque Release Technique analyses cranial-spinal-meningeal functional unit: Canadian Chiropractor. April 2004, Vol. 9, No. 2.   Click Here...

….. TRT practitioners liken the relationship between the spine and the central neurology to a guitar string. As the tension along the string is altered, the pitch of the note is changed. The tone of the system is responsible for the adaptive response. This is analogous to the spine developing torsional strains and applying unusual tension patterns to the dural attachments and ultimately the neural tissue itself…..

11)       A subluxation model for reward deficiency syndrome behaviors: Kenneth Blum, Eric Braverman, Jay Holder, Joel Lubar, Vincent Monastra, David Miller, Judith Lubar, Thomas Chen, David Comings. Journal of Psychoactive drugs. Vol 32 Supplement, November 2000.    Click Here...

…It is appropriate to first discuss research that suggests the spine may be an anatomical extension of the limbic system. The limbic system is the site where feelings are mediated. These feelings are expressed through the reward cascade model as first proposed by Blum and Kozlowski (1990). We now know many naturally occurring brain and spinal cord substances play a role in both emotions and pain reduction, leading to an increased sense of wellbeing. In this regard, Pert and Diensfrey (1988) and Lewis and colleagues (1981) suggested the limbic system should include not only the amygdala and hypothalamus, but also the dorsal horn of the spinal cord…

12)       Subluxation based chiropractic care in recovery: Kenneth Blum, Jay Holder. Handbook of Abusable Drugs. Amended edition.    Click Here...

The possibility that alternative care would constitute chiropractic procedures to effect relapse and recidivism rates is currently under study by Holder and colleagues of the Exodus Treatment Center whereby subluxation based chiropractic procedures are being evaluated…

13)   Chiropractic: A subluxation model for addiction and compulsive disorders: Kenneth Blum, Jay Holder. Handbook of Abusable Drugs. Amended edition.   Click Here...

It is appropriate to discuss some research that appears to establish the vertebral subluxation complex as a primary issue in the multi-factorial expression of the addictions and compulsive disorders. Chiropractic has never considered the spine a separate issue from the rest of the nervous system…

14)   Torque Release Technique: A technique model for Chiropractic’s second century: Canadian Chiropractor. February 1998, Feature, Vol 3, No. 1.    Click Here...

Torque Release Technique (TRT), a chiropractic model and technique of health care, was founded and developed by Dr Jay M Holder and Dr Marvin Talsky. It embraces a vitalistic paradigm, specifically relating to tone, the premise on which D.D.Palmer originally founded chiropractic...

15)   Breakthrough Brain Research Links Chiropractic Treatment to Addictive Behaviors: Letter from the University Of Texas Houston Health Science Center School of Public Health Dept. of Behavioral Service.   Click Here...

A "brain reward cascade" of neurotransmitters, when operating properly, results in feelings of well-being. If an imbalance impedes the normal flow of the "cascade", the feelings of well-being are supplanted by anxiety, anger,... or by craving substances which alleviate the negative emotions. Disruption of the "brain reward cascade" results in Reward Deficiency Syndrome ("RDS")…

16)   Beating Addiction: Alternative Medicine Digest, Future Medicine Publishing, Issue 29 - May, 1999.    Click Here...

From Bondage to Freedom Holder maintains that any addicted person will have one or more vertebrae out of alignment. Dr. Jay M. Holder shows why combining chiropractic, auriculotherapy, amino acids, counseling and 12-step programs may be the groundbreaking answer to all addictions including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, nicotine, eating disorders, sex and gambling…

17)   Attention deficit disorders (ADD): Biogenic Aspects: Chiropractic Pediatrics. Editorial. August 1994, Vol. 1, No. 2. (Pg 21 – 23).   Click Here...

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a widespread affliction that we are just beginning to understand. It affects between three million and four million children in the United States, and probably a larger number of adults. It is considered the most common pediatric disorder. It is a compulsive disorder, usually genetic in origin, that results from imbalances of neurotransmitters, the messengers that communicate between the neurons in the brain. It strikes in childhood, and continues into adulthood. Its effects can be eased by treatment and counselling…

18)   New Technique Introduced - EEG Confirms Results: Jay Holder. ICAC Journal, May 1996.     Click Here...

One of the most exciting events during Life College's 20th anniversary Homecoming was the debut of the Torque Release Technique, billed as the first and newest adjustment technique for chiropractic's second century... After the patient was adjusted, a post EEG was run and examined. Hospers explained her findings: "All of the abnormal prefrontal spiking found earlier was gone and that the entire EEG was now essentially normal."..

19)   Letter From Professor Robert Duncan Regarding TRT Research Design:     Click Here...

Under a contract with the Florida Chiropractic Society, I designed a study of the use of subluxation-based chiropractic care in the residential drug treatment setting, Dr. Jay Holder, Principal Investigator. The study was a randomized, placebo controlled clinical trial with three arms: Usual Care; Placebo Chiropractic; and, Chiropractic. The chiropractic treatment was delivered through the use of a mechanical device which allowed for setting the energy delivered. The placebo treatment involved setting the device to deliver no energy...

20)   Time For a Chiropractic Technique Computer Upgrade: Nick Hodgson. Australian Chiropractor Magazine, April 2006:     Click Here...

...The real benefit of TRT lies in its applicability to any practice style and method: You can integrate the assessment systems to improve your certainty and accuracy in determining where to adjust regardless of how you adjust. You can add the Integrator adjusting to provide a low-force dimension to your technique spread. Or you can evolve completely to the TRT tonal model which is so congruent with the trend towards wellness practice.

21)   Technique Review: TRT - A "Software Upgrade" to Subluxation Care: Dave Russell. New Zealand Chiropractic Association Magazine, April 2005:     Click Here...

Are you adjusting the right level, in the right direction with the right thrust and at the right time? Do you find yourself adjusting the same segments time and time again? Torque Release Technique offers a model of care to "upgrade" the analysis of the spinal system, and the delivery of the adjustment. Transform practice from stagnating to health advancing....

22)    Health Insight: Reward Deficiency? The common thread connecting addictive and compulsive traits. Nick Hodgson. Sight Magazine.     Click Here...

Jack’s story is not as uncommon as we would like to think. His condition can actually be described in one diagnosis: Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS). But there are many more faces to this one disorder. Research paper after research paper seems to be linking this same mind dysfunction with all of the impulsive, compulsive and addictive disorders...

23)    Staying Clean and Sober: Chiropractic: Torque Release Technique: David Miller. Book excerpt.    Click Here...

Dr Jay Holder, Medical Director of Exodus Treatment Center in Miami and Miami Beach, utilizes and teaches the use of subluxation-based chiropractic for the treatment of addic­tion and, through interview, has furnished much of the infor­mation in this chapter. He considers the Torque Release Technique to be the most valuable tool in his treatment "tool­box," along with auriculotherapy. Torque Release Technique is the adjustment of the nervous system to heal abnormalities that interfere with the communication of all systems of the body. To understand how Torque Release Technique works, we need to discuss the functioning of the nervous system as a tonal model...

24)    Dear Chiropractor: Help Me Kick The Habit: Katie Gilbert. Psychology Today Online, July 2006.    Click Here...

Beating addiction may take an extra nudge from the chiropractor... But what does the spine have to do with addiction? The connection may be explained by the presence, or absence, of brain chemicals that make us feel good. When the spinal cord and its nerves are in proper order, chemicals known as neurotransmitters are released in a specific sequence, like falling dominoes. The result: A state of wellbeing. However, subluxations or misalignments of the spine can cause pressure and tension on surrounding tissue, interrupting this feel-good sequence...

25)   Torque Release goes dual track: WCA Journal, March 2006:     Click Here...

... "Since chiropractic is a science, philosophy and art, shouldn't all chiropractic techniques be under constant change and improvement and not stuck in time?" she commented. "The answer is a resounding yes, because as new understandings are realized from research; techniques must change to keep improving if chiropractic is a science."...

26)   Clinical Models of Vertebral Subluxation. Chris Kent, WCA Journal, April 1997:     Click Here...

...Tonal approaches tend to view the spine and nervous system as a functional unit. Tonal approaches emphasize the importance of functional outcomes, and acknowledge that clinical objectives may be achieved using a variety of adjusting methods. Examples of tonal approaches include Network Spinal Analysis and Torque-release Technique...

27)   TV documentary on chiropractic and addictions to air in February: WCA Journal Feb 2004:     Click Here...

28)   Addiction Certification Program begins 16th Year: WCA Journal April 2006:     Click Here...

...Thousands of chiropractors and other health care professionals have graduated... Thanks to the CAd program, DCs have become recognized as a primary intervention resource for addictions, the America's leading cause of death and crime. More than 50 million people are affected by the disease of addiction, not including the compulsive disorders such as ADHD...

29)   Adjustments, strokes and errors in Medicine: Chris Kent, WCA Journal July 2000:     Click Here...

30)   Discovery airs documentary on chiropractic and addictions: WCA Journal June 2002:     Click Here...

31)   Studies explore link between chiropractic care and infertility: WCA Journal March 2004:     Click Here...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 6 million women in the United States are infertile, and over 9 million use some kind of infertility service... A series of research papers published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research (JVSR -- www.jvsr.com) suggests that chiropractic adjustments, performed by chiropractors to address nerve interference caused by spinal distortions, could offer hope to many of these women... The 12 studies in the series found that chiropractic had positive results regardless of the woman's age, number of years infertile, previous medical intervention or health history including miscarriages, blocked fallopian tubes, amenorrhea, colitis, or trauma...

32)   Research on DC role in Addiction Published: WCA Journal May 2001:     Click Here...

33)   Chiropractic at Ground Zero: WCA Journal November 2001:     Click Here...