Grostic Procedure Club

Upper Cervical History

HIO/TOGGLE

• 1930 - Spring
• B.J. proclaimed "the principle of HIO"

• "There could be only one place in the spinal column that a subluxation could exist:

Occipito-atlantal-axial region"

Grostic Procedure

• Fellow of the Institute for Chiropractic Research 1981
• Private practice in Orlando, FL
• Florida State Peer Review Committee (appointed by Govenor)

Grostic Procedure

• Utilizes the mechanical advantage obtained by the toggle mechanism
• This puts the vertebra into motion
• After obtaining motion -- the vertebra recoils and continues in motion
• oscillates until it rests in its appropriate position
• This position is predetermined by the patient's innate intelligence

Toggle Recoil -

How the Adjustment Works

HIO - Toggle

Grostic History

• John F. Grostic
• Born October 9, 1907
• Chiropractic Degree
• March 19, 1933
• Married Grace Johnson
• August 23, 1933

History & Philosophy

History cont.

• First "Official" class was in October 1946
• Awarded the first Daniel David Palmer Scientific Award in 1964
• Passed away 7 months later with a heart attack

Grostic History

• Invited to speak at Lyceum

• One of eleven founding members of the Palmer Standardized Chiropractic Council

• Chiropractors started seeking his help with x-rays and analysis

Grostic Procedure

Pre-Grostic Procedure days:

• Practiced in Ann Arbor, MI
• In a second story downtown building (no elevator)
• Three cubicles with a table and neurocalograph

• Hodgkin's returned
• In 1935, after a hit in the neck area with part of the x-ray machine
• Sought care from other chiroprators with no results.

• Returned to Davenport

• The development of the technique took time.
• It started with the slope of the occipital condyles and articular survaces of the axis.
• Continued with developing the analysis, and patient placement of the film

Pre-chiropractic days

• Salesman/manager of Holden's (men's clothing store in Ypsilanti, MI
• Diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease 1929
• A chiropractor in the same building recommended that he go to Davenport
• Decided to become a chiropractor

Procedure cont.

• Dr. John F. Grostic developed supine leg check, which is still used today by different techniques.
• The Adjustment has changed over the years.
• The force of the thrust was reduced.

Film analysis has remained essentially unchanged since 1957

General Procedure Steps

Determine the Presence of a Subluxation

Specific Equipment Needed

1) Supine leg Length Check

2) Instrumentation

3) Visual / Postural Analysis

4) Palpation - Static / Motion

5) Scanning Palpation

Awards:

Grostic History

Dr. John D. Grostic

Best known for his development of the Dentate ligament theory

Conversion of analysis to equations

Pre-chiropractic days

• Worked in his father's practice developing x-rays at the age of 8
• Helped with the seminars

• ICA's Chiropractor of the Year 1994
• Orthospinology's Chiropractor o the Year 1995
• Fellow in the Palmer Academy of Chiropractic 2002

• Born April 23, 1943

• Attended lyceum as "family vacations"
• Attended Eastern Michigan University
• His father passed when he was 21 yrs. old.

John D. Grostic

• Graduated from Palmer in 1969
• Practiced in Ann Arbor, MI
• Started presenting Grostic seminars in 1972
• Fellow of the International Chiropractic Association 1975
• Taught at PCC in Davenport from 1977-1983

• On April 30, 1992 testified before the Military Personnel and Compensation Subcommittee to support H.R. 608
• Involved in the development of the World Health Organization
• Director of Research at Life College of Chiropractic until his death in 1995

Orthogonal Organizations

History cont.

• Joined Life College of Chiropractic 1986

• Chairman of National Board Question Committee for Neuromusculoskeletal Conditions

History cont.

Chiropractic days

PCCF Upper Cervical Club

Meeting Time and Locations

Mondays @ 9:30 in Room 2275

• X-ray analysis and positioning

Wednesdays @ 1:30 in Room 2225

• Presentation of Research
• Practice with Coordinators, Titron, Leg Check, and Patient placement.