Evaluation of Anatomical Positional Changes of the Spine on Pre and Post Chiropractic Treatment(Session<Alternative and Integrative Medicine>,The 22nd Symposium on Life Information Science)

Abstract

MR images were taken on 14 volunteers at pre and post chiropractic treatment, and anatomical position of the lumbar spine was evaluated on the images. Decreasing lumbar lordosis was observed on hyperlordosis group, and increasing lumbar lordosis was observed on hypolordosis group using the changes of sacral base angle and L5-S1 disc angle. These results suggest that chiropractic treatment has a possibility to change anatomical position of the human spine.