Dr. Fred Clary's Functional Analysis Chiropractic Technique

The periphery and CNS function as an integrated whole, each influencing the other by constant physical and chemical communications and modulations. These rhythmic neuronal activities are involved in the control of the respiratory apparatus, which includes the lungs, diaphragm, pelvic musculature, thorax, intercostal muscles, etc. When this internal driving force, based on CNS drive, activates the peripheral neuromuscular elements to consummate the act of breathing, these same elements, when activated by chiropractic adjustments, also stimulate the same neural circuitry controlling respiration which thus can be influenced in an afferent and efferent “dance”. The synchronization and efficiency of this dance is the diagnostic window that the functional chiropractor addresses.

How important is functional leg length compared to the mechanics of breathing? How important is the coupling of L4-L5 motion in right lateral flexion compared to the mechanics of breathing?