Dr. Jennifer Good of World Wide Wellness in Buckhead, GA  is a specialist in sport chiropractic and pain management.

The transverse processes of the Lumbars are rela-

tively light compared with the general structure of the ver-

tebrae and are found just even with the interspace between

their own and the adjacent superior spinous process. They

vary greatly in size, length and strength and may be used

as levers for adjustment only when they are large enough

to be clearly palpable through the muscle mass which sepa-

rates them from the body surface. Presented By: Buckhead Chiropractor

Preparation of Patient

In all cases where a complete spinal examination is in-

tended the preparation is essentially the same. Have patient

arrange clothing so that the spine is exposed to the touch

throughout. Avoid bands of cloth across the spine, as these

interfere with the necessary continuous gliding movement

of the fingers. Advise the patient, if a female, to wear

waist or dressing sack, reversed, and have skirts loosened

at the waist. If a man, he should strip to the waist and

wear coat or coat shirt reversed.

Position of Patient

This varies widely according to circumstances but for

general purposes use position:

 (A) Place patient on stool, feet even on floor and body

in an easy, relaxed position. This may be modified by ask-

ing him to lean forward and rest elbows on knees, evenly,

to facilitate Lumbar palpation. Patient’s head may be erect

or flexed forward or backward but should never be rotated

or laterally flexed during Cervical palpation except for the

purpose of locating some particular transverse process.

From the BBC

A Chinese man had held up city traffic for hours while threatening to jump from a bridge.  An elderly gentleman in the crowd pushed through police lines, approached the man and reached out his hand in friendship.  When he got close enough, instead of shaking the suicidal man’s hand, the elderly Chinese man pushed the jumper who fell 20′ into a police catch net.
Lai Jiansheng, 66, said he was fed up with the desperate man’s “selfish activity” which caused huge traffic jams in Guangzhou, southern China…

…”I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish,” the newspaper quoted Mr Lai as saying.

“Their action violates a lot of public interests. They do not really dare to kill themselves. Instead, they just want to raise the relevant government authorities’ attention to their appeals.”

Presented by: Wendell Chiropractor

Architecture has a purpose, but some buildings are so unusual they are just plain silly. Architects aren’t perfect, I wonder how architects come up with such crazy ideas, see below some of th weirdest and most unusual buildings on the earth.

Photo: Mammy’s Cupboard (Natchez, MS, United States)

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Photo: Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria)

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Photo: The Basket Building (Ohio, United States)

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(d. 330, feast day August 18)

By Mary Lois, OSH

Helena was at one time the most important woman in the world, yet we know next to nothing about her. She was born about the middle of the third century, possibly in Drepanum on the Nicomedian Gulf, a seaside resort now quite vanished, in Turkey. She was of humble parentage. St. Ambrose referred to her as a stabularia, or inn-keeper. Nevertheless, she became the lawful wife of Constantius I Chlorus. Her first and only son, Constantine the Great, was born in Naissus in Upper Moesia, Serbia, in the year 274.

In 292 Constantius, being co-Regent of the West, gave himself up to considerations of a political nature and forsook Helena in order to marry Theodora, the step-daughter of Emperor Maximianus Herculius. In a court full of intrigue and murder, Helena formed no party, took no steps against her rival, but quietly accepted her disgrace. After her divorce, she settled at Trier (Trèves) where the Cathedral probably stands on the foundations of her palace. Almost certainly it was there that she became Christian.

Everyone knows the story of Constantine’s dramatic conversion. The Church historian Eusebius, whose Life of Constantine is a chief source of information for the period, relates that on the eve of a great battle in the year 312, Constantine had a dream (by some accounts the dream was preceded by a day-time vision) of a flaming cross in the sky, and beneath it were the words, in Greek, “In this sign conquer.” He proceeded south to the Tiber, where his victory over the Emperor Maxentius gave him control of the Western Empire.

Constantine remained faithful and loyal to his mother and probably effected her conversion. Lactantius, who was tutor to her grandson Crispus, may have helped instruct her. Her conversion is directly attested by this statement: “She [his mother] became under his [Constantine's] influence such a devout servant of God, that one might believe her to have been from her very childhood a disciple of the Redeemer of mankind.” On the death of Constantius Chlorus in 308, Constantine, who succeeded him, summoned his mother to the imperial court, conferred on Helena the title of Augusta, ordered that all honor should be paid her as the mother of the sovereign, and had coins struck bearing her effigy.

St. Helena Builder of Churches

Tradition links her name with the building of Christian churches in the cities of the West where the imperial court resided, notably at Rome and Trier. There is no reason to reject this tradition, for we know positively through Eusebius that Helena erected churches on the hallowed spots of Palestine. Despite her advanced age, she undertook a journey to Palestine when Constantine, through his victory over Licinius, had become sole master of the Roman. Then, when she “had shown due veneration to the footsteps of the Savior,” she had two churches erected. One was raised in Bethlehem near the Grotto of the Nativity, the other on the Mount of the Ascension, near Jerusalem. She also embellished the sacred grotto with rich ornaments.

This sojourn in Jerusalem proved to be the starting point of the legend, first recorded by Rufinus, as to the discovery of the Cross of Christ. The Empress Helena visited the Holy Places such as Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Sinai, determined where their churches would be built, and she and her son officially established for Christendom the cult of the Cross. However it is likely that the present Mount Sinai is not the true Sinai of Exodus but a mountain Helena decreed by fiat as Mount Sinai. That declaration is taken on faith by pilgrims to this day.

Eusebius tells of Constantine undertaking the excavations on Golgotha and building the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 335. Later legend will have this archeology and architecture be Helena’s. Eusebius affirms Helena’s actions in this area in connection with the Bethlehem cave and basilica and with that on the Mount of Olives. He touchingly describes how she wished, quoting Psalm 132.7, to “worship at the place whereon his feet have stood.” He also describes how generous her gifts were to the naked and unprotected poor. To some she gave money, to others an ample supply of clothing. She liberated some from imprisonment or from the bitter servitude of the mines, still others she restored from exile.

But for this final, triumphant journey, she would have had no fame. We might think of her as someone who made the best of both worlds. The strong purpose of her pilgrimage shed a new light on the long years of uneventful retirement, showing us that it was by an act of will that she accepted her position. There is little of heroism or genius in any of this. We can assume that she was a thoroughly good woman in an age when palaces were mostly occupied by the wicked; but she lived grandly and comfortably, whereas most of the saints in every age have accepted poverty as the condition of their calling. We know of no suffering of hers, physical, spiritual, or mental, beyond the normal bereavements, disappointments, and infirmities which we all expect to bear. Yet she lived in an age when Christians had often to choose between flight, apostasy, or brutal punishment. Where, one may ask, lies her sanctity? Where the particular lesson for us who live in such very different circumstances?

The world of Constantine, as we catch glimpses of it, is utterly remote from ours. There are certain superficial similarities. Poetry was dead and prose dying. Architecture had lapsed into the horny hands of engineers. Sculpture had fallen so low that in all his empire Constantine could not find a mason capable of decorating his triumphal arch and preferred instead to rob the two-hundred-year-old arch of Trajan. An enormous bureaucracy was virtually sovereign, controlling taxation on the sources of wealth, for the pleasure of city mobs and for the defense of frontiers more and more dangerously pressed by barbarians from the East. The civilized world was obliged to find a new capital. All this seems familiar, but for the event of supreme importance the rise of Christianity. Helena, more than anyone, stands in the heart of that event.

She visited the churches everywhere and made rich donations to them. Her stay in Rome is chiefly identified with the church of St. Croce in Gerusalemme. The Palatium Sessorianum formerly stood on the present location of this church and nearby were the Thermae Helenianae, baths which derived their name from the Empress. Here two inscriptions were composed in honor of Helena. The Sessorium, which was near the site of the Lateran, probably served as Helena’s residence when she stayed in Rome, so that it is quite possible for a Christian basilica to have been erected on this spot by Constantine, at her suggestion and in honor of the true Cross.

Helena was still living in the year 326 when Constantine ordered the execution of his son Crispus. According to Socrates’s account, the emperor in 327 improved Drepanum, his mother’s native town, and decreed that it should be called Helenopolis. And she accepted that too.

Only in her religious practices did she maintain her private station, slipping into Mass at Rome among the crowd, helping with the housework at the convent on Mount Sion. She accepted the fact that God had a unique use for her. Others faced the lions in the circus; others lived in caves in the desert. She was to be St. Helena Empress, not St. Helena Martyr or St. Helena Anchorite. She accepted a state of life full of dangers to the soul in which many foundered, and she remained fixed in her purpose until at last it seemed God had no other need of her except to continue to the end, a kind old lady.

Legends of St. Helena

The story is often told how Saint Helena had arrived in Jerusalem on her pilgrimage in search of The True Cross. She believed that God had told her that she would eventually find this most holy of relics and restore it as a symbol of Christian worship. Helena had been searching for many days before she noticed a sweet-smelling plant growing on a barren hill outside Jerusalem. Immediately, she gave instructions to dig under the plant, where she discovered the cross on which Jesus had been crucified.

Geoffrey of Monmouth, England, started the legend that Helena was the daughter of the king of Colchester, but there is no historical foundation for this. In Celtic Britain, the legend persists that she was a Christian British slave from York, that she became Constantius’ concubine, and that he died A.D. 274 in York. It is true that Constantius spent some time in Britain putting down a rebellion among the Picts and Scots and died at York, but it is thought that he had cast off Helena and taken a new wife long before this time.

In liturgical art Helena is depicted as an empress, holding a cross.

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THIS little work is offered to the profession without 

apology for its brevity or its form. It has been 

prepared because of an immediate and pressing need 

for such a guide in our colleges, and is offered abroad under 

the impression that many practicing Chiropractors (chiropractor in Alexandria VA)feel the 

same need. 

It is intended for handy reference and clinical use and 

is arranged as systematically as possible, style being every- 

where sacrificed to utility. 

The author lays no claim to the origination of any of 

the subject matter of this book nor to having invented any 

of the movements described under Technic of Adjusting. 

The arrangement and phraseology are in the main original. 

The intention has been merely to condense into practical 

and convenient form for students and practitioners (chiropractor in Alexandria VA) certain 

knowledge now held and utilized in our profession. 

The author feels himself indebted to the entire profes- 

sion for the information embodied in this work, and to 

scientists of all time upon the results of whose infinite and 

painstaking research are based our present day advance- 

ment; to the many friends and co-workers whose valuable 

criticisms and suggestions have aided in this labor; and to 

his students, past and present, who have furnished the nec- 

Standard dictionaries use these two terms as synonyms, meaning nearly one and the same.  Medical dictionaries make only a slight difference.  In the practice of chiropractic there is a vast difference; this discrimination should be duly considered.  Chiropractors should make a special distinction between constipation and costiveness.  The two conditions resemble each other in the infrequency of evacuation, in no other sign or symptom are they alike.  In the character of the stool there is a great difference.  In costiveness the feces are scanty, dry, hard, compact and in chunks, yet the color is normal; the fluids from the spleen, pancreas, liver and intestine give it the normal color.  In constipation the character of the stool may be normal; the sluggish movement of the feces may be owing to atony, a lack of tone or tension, or a relaxed condition of the bowels, or the organs of the abdomen may be flacid, weak and displaced.

    The prolapsed condition of the stomach, kidneys, uterus, bowels, rectum, the conditions known as hernia, floating kidneys, prolapsus uteri, and hemorrhoids are because of a lack of tone, a relaxation of the abdominal nerves.  Chiropractors (Chiropractor in Raleigh) should become aware of this condition resulting from relaxation and undue tension.

    Constipation is due to functional inactivity of the intestinal canal, or from a lack of biliary, pancreatic and other secretions; obstructions of the intestinal canal, or paresis, paralysis of the intestinal walls, or the use of certain food or drugs, or a general depression of vital activity.  Each of these when known will suggest to a chiropractor the change of injecta necessary and the proper adjustment — not adjustments.  In constipation there is a lack of vermicular or muscular motion, waves of alternte circular contraction and relaxation of the intestinal tube by which the contents are propelled onward, as is the circulation of the blood by the nervi vasorum.

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NO two students, approaching for the first time the 

study of Chiropractic, approach from the same 

angle. Their viewpoints differ. In order that all 

may gain as nearly as possible the same viewpoint from 

which to consider in turn the sections of this book, it will 

be well if each student reads the entire book before begin- 

ning to memorize its parts and convert them into practical 

working knowledge. 

Presented by:  Alexandria Chiropractic 

An effort should be made, abandoning all other, to ac- 

quire the Chiropractic viezvpoint. This accomplished, the 

rest of the task requires time and patience alone, without 

waste labor. The section on Vertebral Palpation should be 

studied step by step, the study of each step being combined 

with practice in it. Likewise the section on Nerve-Tracing, 

theory preceding practice. The study of the Technic of 

Adjusting should occupy those months immediately preced- 

ing the commencement of actual adjusting practice and 

continue during such practice. The chapters on Practice 

are intended for the student about to enter the field. The 

table of Spino-Organic Connection can be best understood 

by those   Alexandria Chiropractic  who have studied or are studying the anatomy and 

physiology of the nervous system. 

Setenil de la Bodegas, a city in Spain’s Andalucia region, is a major drawcard for tourists coming to Ronda precisely because of the cave houses along the banks of the river.
In Roman times nearby Acinipo (about 4km from Setenil) was the main Roman city south of Córdoba and even pressed its own coins. The hills around Acinipo were filled with Roman vineyards, and at Setenil the Romans themselves stored wine in the caves.
Today, there are several important vineyards located around Ronda Viejo (the ruined city of Acinipo) and Setenil de la Bodegas.

Other than being built into the rock, Setenil is also one of the typical White Villages of Andalucia; villages that try to stay as cool as possible in this hottest region of Spain by whitewashing their houses every year, as white reflects sunlight best.
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