Effects of a Thoracic Manipulation on Hip Adductor, Extensor, and Latissimus Dorsi Force in Those With Adductor Weakness

Participants were supine on a treatment table. The chiropractor determined levels of apparent spinal dysfunction by means of static palpation. Participants were then asked to curl forward and bring their knees to their chest as the chiropractor placed a fist just inferior to the targeted level, anywhere between the T4 - T10 vertebrae. The participant was instructed to inhale and then exhale, at which point the chiropractor lowered the participant's torso back to the table and delivered a thrust using his body into his fist.

A previously validated physiologically inert manual procedure to the thoracic spine