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How To Correct A Herniated Disc (5th Lumbar)
“Mammillary contacts will not require the patient’s body to be rolled as far forward as when using a spinous contact. Instead, the doctor leans further over the patient, stabilizing his hip against the patient’s pelvis. The forearm of his thrusting arm will be nearly parallel with the surface of the table. This willl allow a more P to A direction of thrust, thus reducing the body rotation with a deep thrust on the mamillary process.”-Gonstead Chiropractic Science And Art Chapter 15, pp212
Dr. Gonstead later changed the contact point to the Lamina/Transverse on the 5th lumbar (only) warning that you can fracture the transverse processes of the other lumbars but never the 5th. L5 PLI-M(LT) Clunk. Notice the doctors hip was stabilizing the patients pelvis the entire thrust.
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