The next article will cover what to do if told you have one. No such condition can be corrected by chiropractic spinal manipulation.
Most partial dislocations occur in areas other than the spine and are the result of injury.
Because the ligaments connecting the spinal bones are quite strong, vertebral dislocations rarely occur after birth and are unlikely without severe injury that would require surgical treatment. Some occupy a middle ground that includes any or all of these concepts. During the early 1970s Dr. Edmund Crelin, a prominent anatomist at Yale University, subjected this theory to an actual test. After collecting the spines of six people who had died a few hours earlier, he twisted them with instruments and observed the spaces between the vertebrae through which the spinal nerves passed. No nerve compression occurred, regardless of the force applied.