After his undergraduate pre-chiropractic courses at the University of Utah, Dr. Deed Harrison graduated from Life-West in 1996. He is co-author of more than 30 peer-reviewed, indexed, research articles. These include 21 in JMPT, 3 in Chiropractic Technique, and 6 at major Index Medicus journals. He has been a Reviewer for the medical journal SPINE since 1998. He is a certified instructor for CBP® Seminars, has written two chapters in the CBP® text books, and is Vice-President of CBP® Nonprofit, Inc. He has a private practice in Elko, Nevada.

AJCC Jan 2000

Clinical Biomechanics Accepts 2nd CBP® Research Paper

By Deed E. Harrison, DC

On December 1, 1999, we were notified by Kim Burton, PhD, DO, MS, Editor of Clinical Biomechanics, of the acceptance of our CBP® project, “Cervical Coupling During Lateral Head Translations Creates an “S”-Configuration” by Harrison DE, Harrison DD, Cailliet R, Janik TJ, Troyanovich SJ. This is our 2nd research project to be published in this prestigious British medical journal and our 7th published paper with Rene Cailliet, MD.

            This research will have ramifications in discerning cervical spine injury resulting from side impacts. Our project data was obtained with the help of the Life University CBP® Club in 1995. Normal student volunteers allowed us to obtain radiographs in three positions: neutral, left lateral head translation, and right lateral head translation. In this research, we are the first to describe cervical coupled motion for this main motion postural position.

            In a sister project on lateral trunk translations, which was our first project submitted to Clinical Biomechanics, we studied lumbar spine coupled motion. This research was just published in the December 1999 issue of Clinical Biomechanics.

            In the past, spine researchers have spent an unequal amount of time on the postural rotations with the neglect of the head and thoracic cage translations. Even though Penning had studied anterior/posterior translations of the head as early as 1962, the lateral translations of the head and thoracic cage have never been studied for spinal coupled motion. We are very proud to be the first researchers to report on these important topics.  Also we are very proud to have a prestigious British journal accept our CBP® research projects.          

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