Acute and Chronic
Dis-eases are also considered to be acute or chronic. A dis-ease is in the acute stage when there is a “hot box” found at the causative subluxation. When adaptation has taken place and the “hot box” has disappeared, the condition is in the stage of chronicity. Taut fibers will then be present and by their presence the palpation and location of the major subluxation may be verified.
It is well for the student to understand what is meant by such expressions as the stage of exposure, the period of infection, the stage of incubation, the period of invasion, the degree of infection, even though we have no particular reason to use such terms in our chiropractic explanations of dis-ease.