Just understand that our term looks like something it isn't. I wonder if D.D. ever thought about this when it was originally coined. B.J. had a lot of fun with it over the years, that's for sure. When you consider the difficulty the chiropractic profession itself has had with it over the years, its no wonder that everyone else doesn't get it right the first time either. Because for the same condition, there is a huge amount of variation in how it is treated.
Red flags abound.
With no standard way to account for severity, complexity, and other confounders the patient might have, our care becomes suspect. Think of dental carries. Most everyone gets them, but dentists vary in the ways they treat them. The range of care, cost, and duration, however, is fairly well-defined, but not so with subluxation. It's all over the map.