TECHNIC AND PRACTICE OF CHIROPRACTIC

Technic and Practice of Chiropractic — PCC PRESS Annotated Edition

In 1915, Joy M. Loban set out to write not a work of philosophy but a handy clinical reference — a book arranged, in his own words, "as systematically as possible, style being everywhere sacrificed to utility." A graduate of the Palmer School of Chiropractic and later a faculty member at the Universal Chiropractic College, Loban distilled the clinical reasoning of chiropractic's founding generation into one of the most thorough technique manuals of its era: systematic palpation, nerve-tracing, thirty-two distinct adjusting techniques, and Loban's own theory of disease as it was understood in 1915.

This PCC PRESS Annotated Edition reproduces Loban's second edition (1915) text in full — public domain, unaltered, plates and all — with a new historical foreword by Jiro Yamahata, BCSc., of PALMS School of Chiropractic, situating Loban's work within the Palmer–Universal lineage and noting where his century-old physiological reasoning has since been superseded.

For this edition, every one of Loban's thirty-two adjusting techniques has been reformatted into a structured, scannable card — Listing, Patient Position, Doctor's Position, Contact, Indifferent Hand, Tissue Pull, Line of Drive, and, where Loban himself documented one, a Caution — making a dense 1915 reference usable at a glance. The book's reference tables, including the full vertebra-by-vertebra "Right Move" adjustment lookup and the disease-and-adjustment table, have likewise been rebuilt as proper tables rather than running prose.

Reproduced here as a document of its time rather than a current clinical authority, this edition is for chiropractic students, historians of the profession, and practitioners curious about how the field's founders actually reasoned about the spine, the nervous system, and disease.

Published by PCC PRESS, the academic imprint of PALMS School of Chiropractic, Osaka, Japan.