Includes bibliographical references and index.

What's in a word? -- Chiropractic paradigms -- Anatomy related to spinal subluxation -- Animal models in the study of subluxation and manipulation : 1964-2004 -- Palpatory diagnosis of subluxation -- Role of radiography in evaluating subluxation -- Chiropractic technique -- Nonmanipulable subluxation -- Vertebral subluxation complex -- Theoretic models of subluxation -- Kinesiology : an essential approach toward understanding the chiropractic subluxation -- Buckling : a biomedical model of subluxation -- Three neurophysiologic theories on the chiropractic subluxation -- Vertebral subluxation and the anatomic relationships of the autonomic nervous system -- Review of the systemic effects of spinal manipulation -- Spinal cord mechanisms of referred pain and related neuroplasticity -- Cervicogenic headache -- Cervicogenic sympathetic syndromes -- Cerebral dysfunction syndrome -- Whiplash -- Cervicogenic dorsalgia -- Thoracic outlet syndrome : first rib subluxation syndrome -- Thoracic and costovertebral subluxation syndromes -- Facet subluxation syndrome -- Intervertebral disc syndrome -- Sacroiliac subluxation syndrome -- Coccygeal subluxation syndrome.