Speech Disorders
Acquired verbal aphasia in a 7-year old female:
case report. Manuelle, JD and Fysh, PN Journal of Clinical
Chiropractic Pediatrics Vol. 1, No.2 1996.
From the abstract:
A case report is presented of a 7-year-old
female patient with acquired verbal aphasia. Despite appropriate
referral to specialists in pediatrics, audiology and speech
and language pathology, the patient’s verbal difficulties
improved only after the commencement of chiropractic care.
Follow-up evaluations over a period of 18 months demonstrated
that speech improvements had been maintained.
The authors comment
that the patient received DPT and MMR shots about 6 weeks prior
to the onset of symptoms. The relationship between aphasia
and vaccination damage has been noted by others.
Oral apraxia:
a case study in chiropractic management. Araghi HJ. In: Proceedings
of the ICA National Conference on Chiropractic and Pediatrics,
Dallas; 1994:34-41.
This is the case of a five-year-old female
diagnosed with oral apraxia (inability to speak), an abundance
of energy and deep heavy snoring while sleeping.
Prior to chiropractic
care the child could understand spoken language and could respond
with sign language but was unable to speak. Specific upper
cervical adjustments were given to the Co-C1 and C1-C2 segments.
After
the first adjustment the child was in a deep sleep for a long
period of time with no snoring. She awoke in the middle of
the night and spoke her first spoken word. Under continued
chiropractic care the patient’s speech improved,
her energy “abundance” eased.
Case report: resolution
of spasmodic dysphonia (focal laryngeal dystonia) via chiropractic
manipulation. Wood KW. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological
Therapeutics 1991; 14:376-378.
Author’s abstract:
This paper discusses the case of a
46 year old male suffering from spasmodic dysphonia, a chronic
disorder involving hyper adduction of the vocal mechanism and
resultant vocal arrest. Attention is paid to the innervation
of the intrinsic laryngeal musculature and postulated mechanisms
of irritation, which may be amenable to chiropractic.
At the
time the patient went to the chiropractor, he had been suffering
from this condition for six months and had consulted with numerous
specialists and two teaching hospitals with no improvement
in his condition. The chiropractor learned that upper cervical
pain and stiffness and suboccipital headache appeared along
with the vocal problem. After two weeks of upper cervical adjustments
(5 visits) the condition cleared up.
Mobilization of the Spine.
Grieve GP Churchill Livingston, London/New York, 4th edition,
22-23. 1984
From the text:
All those experienced in manipulation can report
numerous examples of migrainous headaches, disequilibrium (vertigo),
subjective visual disturbances, feelings of retro-orbital
pressure, dysphagia, dysphonia, heaviness of a limb, extra
segmental paraesthesia, restriction of respiratory excursion,
abdominal nausea and the cold sciatic leg being relieved
by manual or mechanical treatment of the vertebral column.
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