Therefore, I write again, not in academic dogma, but rather as one who records clinical observation. This is supposed to indicate a sound, healthy body and one that will respond readily to chiropractic adjustments. This means that the individual is more or less at the mercy of his environment and has subnormal resistance and recuperative powers. On the average, it takes this type of case longer to get well than the normal or everted type. Their body vitality is low and they have more off days than good days.
Recuperation is very slow and their vital processes are subnormal.
They have many ailments which they have accepted or learned to tolerate. . . . Adjustments can and do prevent them from progressing into some more serious ailment. As a rule they constitute the longer range cases and require regular adjustments over a period of time. Their span of life is not too long, except under ideal circumstances. Thus, by adjusting the atlas according to the indications of the Keck analysis, the structural pull is relieved on one side, nerve interference released, and disease is cured or prevented.