SOT™ offers chiropractors the insights of M.B. DeJarnette, one of the most brilliant chiropractic clinical researchers, one of the first Diplomates in Radiology and one of the founders of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners.SOT™ teaches clinical decision making, office efficiency and organization, and the knowledge of the best treatment for your patients, based on the known anatomy and physiology of the human body.The category system of patient analysis offers the practitioner a logical, balanced approach to patient care, leading you to the proper treatment approach. The SOT™ indicators enable you to monitor your effectiveness and tell you when to change your approach. SOT™ practitioners are most often the chiropractors for other chiropractors in their communities.SOT™ visceral techniques allow you to understand and treat your patient for a full-body point of view, leaving no stone unturned. Chiropractic Manipulative Reflex Technique(CMRT) is an organized and effective approach to dealing with the viscero-somatic reflexes that are present in so many patients and that are a common cause of chronic subluxation.SOT™ Chiropractic Craniopathy deals with the relationship of cranial stress patterns, dural dysfunction and sutural fixation to the spine and to specific cranial symptoms. SOT™ Craniopathy deals with the 80% of the nervous system that a strictly spinal approach may be missing.
The Category System of Patient Analysis
The category system refers to the primary system dysfunctions recognized by M.B. DeJarnette as most common all-inclusive on patients seen in the chiropractor's office.Category I refers to fixation of the synovial sacro iliac boot, with associated meningeal system disruption. The spinal and intracranial dura is involved, along with the neurology, physiology and reflexes of the central nervous system.
Category II has to do with dysfunctions of the weight-bearing parts of the sacro iliac joints. This usually involves a tear, sprain or strain of the hyaline part of the sacro iliac joint, and can have far-reaching consequences due to the effect that this problem has on proprioception, the muscular system, and the temporomandibular mechanism and cranial sutures.
Category III involves the discs and their blood supply. This is the category of most acute low back pain patients. SOT™ has special procedures for the care of these patients that is both effective and safeThe components of the cranial sacral respiratory mechanism are: Respiratory motiobbn of the sutural system of the cranium along with cranial bone flexibility. Respiratory motion of the sacrum between the two ileum. Tension of the dural membranes from its contact with the sutural system, the cranium, the upper cervical spine and the sacral base.
The inherent quality of the cerebral spinal fluid to pulsate and flow through the dural membrane system. The growth and inherent respiration of the brain and ventricular system. All other systems of the body have both a direct and indirect relationship to the cranial sacral respiratory mechanism (endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, etc.).
In SOT™, structural analysis is based on objective clinical findings (indicators). These methods are based on normal physiology and how the physiology should react under certain conditions, i.e., Arm Fossae test is a challenge of multiple stimuli calling on the upper motor neurons system to coordinate function with the lower motor neuron system. Once these indicators are collected, the SOT™ Chiropractor makes judgments as to the best treatment approach. One of three categories are chosen, based on the needs of either the cranial sacral mechanism, the weight-bearing properties of the sacroiliac joint or the lumbar spine. Included in SOT™ is Chiropractic Manipulation Reflex Technique (CMRT). CMRT is a system of organ function analysis and treatment as it relates to the spine and the occipital tendon insertions. This method not only allows you to find the major vertebral subluxation but also the degree of involvement, (cerebrospinal-meningeal, vertebral visceral or structural-vertebral). CMRT teaches a method of adjusting the vertebrae subluxation along with soft tissue reflexes to nourish the organ. The occipital fibers are based on the ability of the proprioceptive system (Golgi Tendons) to respond to muscles influenced by spinal subluxations and visceral and meningeal disturbances. CMRT allows the SOT™ Chiropractor to take a whole person approach to health. SOT™ also employs trapezius fiber analysis with spinal palpation to define spinal subluxation and cervical indicators to define lumbar subluxation. Extremity techniques are taught in SOT™ as part of its core curriculum since they are part of the weight-bearing system and can influence cranial sacral respiration. SOT™ Chiropractors realize that the body is a unified system with all parts in relationship and that the maintenance of the cranial sacral respiratory system and the weight-bearing system are primary
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