A datum is a piece of information. A SENIOR DATUM is a piece of information that is senior to, or of greater importance than, other data (information). When you look at all the data available about the body and its workings you can quickly get dizzy because there is so much data. This is why doctors often seem uncertain as to what to recommend. BUT, how much of that data is important? And, how much is just information not relevant to getting a body fixed? Much more than anyone thinks. 99% of the data about how body structure works (body mechanics) is useless in fixing bodies. The other 1% might be interesting to look at but there are just about a dozen pieces of truly important data when it comes to really getting bodies structurally corrected.

One of the most important concepts you can learn is that there important data and data that will just take up your time and not get you where you want to go. Keep the important ones and throw away the rest or keep them tucked away on the side where they will not interfere with your work.

The truth is that if you have the SENIOR DATA about how something works you can easily demonstrate why and how all the other effects occur and change them at will.

When I am asked how I figured all these things out I tell the truth: I decided the body was a physical object no different than a car or other machine in the physical universe (though there is a person operating the body) and that like any other physical machine, the only reason you could not fix one was that you did not understand how it worked.

Since there were no owner’s manuals to describe how the body worked and no one else had any consistently workable answers as to how it worked and how to fix bodies, I decided there must be basic things unknown about how the body worked. I then set out to discover them. The way I did that was by being willing to look at things no one else seemed to look at.

The first thing no one seemed to want to look at was that the theories being used must have a WRONG WHY because the methods of treatment based on those theories worked/work well on a few people. On some people, the effectiveness of those treatments was/is mediocre and on the majority of people those treatments were/are ineffective (do not work at all) or make the patients worse.

If you think this is not true, you are wrong. The above paragraph is why there are so many people taking over-the-counter drugs or taking their friends' prescriptions and the like rather than going to doctors. They either tried enough or heard enough to know what is being done does not work in most cases. Most chiropractors, physical therapists and doctors do not get to know this because the patients tell them they are doing well so as not to make the practitioner feels bad. The insurance companies know it though. They are the ones who see a patient go from doctor to physical therapist to chiropractor to another chiropractor etc.

Some of the discoveries about bodies that were not and for the most part, still are not considered when treatments are developed or actually done are:

The bones of a body are like a gear system in that they all work together. They work together to hold the body upright and have it be able to recover to that upright position from any change.

When in an ideal state the bones are working together as a lever system that holds the body upright with no muscular effort. The muscles are used to move the body and return it to an upright position from any other position but not to maintain an upright posture. ("Everyone knows" the bones are all connected and work together – there is even a song about it. However, when was the last time someone looked at your neck for a back pain condition or visa versa?)

We of course, do not expect to find a body functioning in an absolutely ideal way in life, but that is the Ideal Scene. (Nevertheless, from the photos on the first page of this web site that are all taken with the person completely relaxed, you can see we get very close. Most of those after pictures were taken after I told the person, "Breathe in breathe out and let your body relax and slump. Come on, let your body really go relaxed." They usually answered, "I am totally relaxed. It doesn’t slump anymore! At which point I took the picture.)

Another point is that since the bones all work together as a synchronized lever system holding the body upright, any change in one area will immediately change things everywhere in the body. (Synchronized does not just mean working together it means working together at the same time, syn = together, chrono = time).

You can test this sitting right there. Relax your body. Making sure the rest of your body stays still and does not twist, notice how far your head goes when you turn it to the right. Notice how far it turns, not how it feels, and be sure your body does not turn also. Do it again. Then do the same thing to the left.

Next, starting with your head straight and not moving anything but your toes, scrunch your toes up tightly (like making a fist with your toes). While your toes are scrunched redo the turn your head test without letting your body twist. Almost all of you will notice a change in how far you can move your head. Some will turn more, some less (most of those who do not notice a difference are cheating and moving their bodies as the difference and not noticing that is how they are turning their head the same distance).

The point is not that your turn more or less. The point is that scrunching your toes affected how much your neck and head move even though you are sitting and the toes are not part of your body’s weight bearing circumstance. Everything works together and any change affects everything else in the body even if it is just a little. How any one thing affects anything else in the body depends upon how mechanically sound (how well aligned) your body is.

One of the most SENIOR DATA is that the meninges act as a large elastic stabilizer going from the coccyx (tail bone) to the skull. Acting as such they transmit mechanical stress on any part of the spinal column throughout the spinal column. This is yet another reason you cannot look at any one area of the spinal column as a separate thing. The entire column works together as a single synchronized functioning unit. There are not exceptions to this.

If a chiropractor or any other type of doctor just takes x-rays of your neck he might know that the bones are misaligned (radiologists do not generally believe anything is misaligned unless it is so far out of place it is completely dislocated so their opinions are not to be trusted at all);

And, he might be able to tell if there are bone spurs or degeneration due to mechanical pressure on the bones (they call that arthritis, which is Latin for arthro = joints, -itis = inflamed which means it describes nothing but the appearance of the joints and is another way of BEING REASONABLE about not being able to fix body mechanic);

And, he might say many different things but the truth is that she/he cannot tell what is happening mechanically unless they look at the entire spine in more than one position so they can see how the spine is changing and from that figure out what is happening mechanically with the spinal column.

Actually, if your doctor is a chiropractic doctor using Advanced BioStructural Correction™ he or she might not even need x-rays to find and correct your body though each doctor must determine that for each patient.