Proportion of Cases with Traceable Nerves
About one-half of all the cases which visit Chiropractors for adjustment are susceptible of nerve-tracing. In the remaining half it is absolutely impossible to acquire any information in this way. Of the half who are at all susceptible, it is possible in perhaps four-fifths of all cases to secure some accurate or reliable information.
The patient in whom all accessible nerves seem tender to light palpation is hyperesthetic and unavailable for tracing.
In the usual case one or two nerves will be found easily traceable, while the rest exhibit no tenderness on pressure. Such a case furnishes the most reliable information securable by this method and the tender nerves may be considered as lightly or acutely impinged.