3227 S. Lakewood Ave. Tulsa, OK 74135
Telephone: (918) 665-0036
I Have Taken His Name Dr. Bruce Frye
Come join me in this heavenly realm experience where I was shown the throne room of God and taught fresh and exciting revelation by the Father. This supernatural experience has given a more literal meaning to being the Bride of Christ than ever imagined. Realize the power, might and blessings in your life that Jesus shares with His bride. Enjoy the gifts that overflow at the wedding supper of the Lamb.
For information on ordering your Air Adjustor click here
Should I purchase an electric adjustor, hand squeezed spring adjustor or a pneumatic adjustor?
This is the question that so many doctors like you are asking.
When I was in the first motions of inventing and developing the Air Adjustor this was the question I also was asking. I could have used any of the above methods of power to deliver a thrust to the patient. My investigation into the question brought me to some simple truths concerning the type of power I would use with the Air Adjustor. I will describe the process of elimination I used to eventually come to be assured that air or pneumatic powered devices were the right answer for the doctor and patient.
The first consideration in determining what type of power to use was in consideration of the comfort of the thrust to the patient and in recoil force back to the doctor. The mechanics of the 3 different sources of power were investigated and the following is what I found.
1. Hand pulled spring loaded instruments require a spring tension build up before release. This type of instrument is understandably tiring to the doctor and obviously suspect when considering carpel tunnel, hand and wrist problems. In fact, we found that in the manufacturing industry the hand squeeze design has mostly been eliminated because of the repetitive trauma injuries.
2. There is no recoil absorption technology available for hand pulled spring-loaded instruments. There is no floating piston in spring instruments to absorb the recoil. Once the spring tension is released into the head it rams it foreword to a preset end stroke length.
3. The force of a tension spring release is a mechanical thrust being driven with the spring decompressing into the tip. The comfort of the thrust is a very mechanical feel to the patient verses an air driven, free floating piston thrust.
4. Air is softer than spring or electric solenoid. The later are very mechanical in feel verses the air driven piston. The spring in the Air Adjustor is there for the purpose of recoiling the piston back to the starting point not in driving the tip forward.
5. Both the hand pulled and electric adjustors have preset depths of thrust. This means that the tip is going to move forward into the patient or back into the doctor=s hand/wrist a preset distance. The air driven recoil unit (Air Adjustor) uses the physics of kinetic energy to automatically vary the depth of tip penetration. The tip will move forward until sufficient resistance has been met then, based on physics, recoil and transfer the energy of motion to the spine and neurology thereby performing the adjustment. It may sound complicated but it all happens in a fraction of a second based upon the laws of physics. What this means is the harder the surface, the less tip penetration occurs, the softer the area being adjusted the more tip penetration. Areas like rib heads, thin framed patients, hyper tonic areas will not have the tip invading the tissue as deep as a softer area. Areas that are more spastic, or close to the surface are more tender or painful to palpation and will receive less invasive tip incursion than deeper tissue areas. The result is a more comfortable adjustment. The mechanism of adjustment is not in plunging forward into these common tender areas by a preset thrust depth as in the other units, rather it is in the transfer of energy. The Air Adjustor is the only hand held adjustment instrument that utilizes this law of physics.
6. Law of conservation of energy states that for every force there is an equal and opposite force produced. What this means is that every time you impact or activate a patient the force comes back to you equal to the force that goes to the patient. The Air Adjustor is the only hand held adjustor that utilizes this physical law to our advantage not to the detriment of the doctor's hand and wrist! That means that there is an equal force going back to the doctor every time the force impacts the patient. When you activate other adjustors the adjustor itself produces force back to the doctors hand and wrist. The secret to the Air Adjustor is a free-floating piston that recoils back inside the adjustor and absorbs the harmful recoil energy. The Air Adjustor even goes a step further! The recoil energy is not just absorbed by the piston; it is transferred to the patient where it belongs through the quick toggle recoil action. The Air Adjustor uses this energy to produce a dynamic toggle recoil type adjustment on every vertebrae.
7. Toggle recoil adjusting is from the very creation of Chiropractic itself. There is no more dynamic and efficient energy of motion transfer in all of physics and Chiropractic. The historical physical effects of toggle recoil adjusting are widely known prior to Chiropractic's change to more diversified adjusting technique. Once the techniques changed the organ based effects of Chiropractic diminished. This is mainly due to a move from toggle recoil dynamics to a range of motion based adjusting style.
The ability to perform a toggle on every vertebra was limited until the Air Adjustor. Now this honored form of adjustment technique is easily performed by the squeeze of a finger. I have seen a definite increase in the resolution of organ based patient symptoms when I changed to the Air Adjustor. Dr. Frye
8. Newton's Cradle is the perfect example of the transfer of kinetic energy from the Air Adjustor tip. In the Newton's cradle the first ball is released which hits the second ball and the energy is transferred through that ball and the preceding balls to the last ball which is the only one that moves. You first notice that the ball that was released was free to recoil back. Thereby transferring the energy to the rest. This is the same mechanism in the Air Adjustor with the recoiling piston. The energy is transferred through the first ball or skin layer to the second, the fat, through the third the muscle and so on until the last movable object is contacted, the vertebrae. The spine housing the neurology receives the release of the energy, theoretically repolarizing the depolarized nerve roots and reestablishing nerve flow.
9. Clinical tests performed measuring kickback into the doctor's hand were performed utilizing the three types of instrument adjusting. Tests were performed with the Is a standard widely accepted in accurate testing procedures. The Quantum recorded the force produced by the handle or user (doctor) end of the adjustor during an adjustment. While many tests have been performed on the output side of the adjustors. (site Canadian study) the kickback test is the first to measure the harmful impact produced into the doctors hand, wrist , elbow. The following results revealed that the Air Adjustor is far superior to any other hand held instrument in reducing these harmful impacts or kickbacks to the doctor.
Test results Conclusion:
Air Adjustor------------Newtons of kickback
Impact-------------------Newtons of kickback
ActivatorÒ-----------------Newtons of kickback
Air Adjustor FDA pre-approved and registered for marketing
The Air Adjustor was registered and approved for marketing as a medical device October of 2002.
Air Adjustor and Medicare Approval
According to American Chiropractic Association and in accordance to the Medicare Carrier Manual, "Manual Manipulation-Coverage of chiropractic service is specifically limited to treatment by means of manual manipulation, i.e., by use of hands. Additionally, manual devices (i.e., those that are hand-held with the thrust of the force of the device being controlled manually) may be used by chiropractors in performing manual manipulation of the spine. However, no additional payment is available for use of the device, nor does Medicare recognize and extra charge for the device itself."
Therefore, Air Adjustor being a hand-held manual device with the thrust of the force of the device being controlled manually is Medicare approved. Also, being FDA registered and having been determined to be substantially equivalent to ActivatorÒ by the FDA, the Air Adjustor meets all requirements for Medicare approval.
Purpose: The Beta Project is designed to gain feedback from qualified doctors of Chiropractic on the use and performance of the Frye Adjustor.
The project will analyze several aspects of the adjustor. Including but not limited to
1.Ergonomics of hand wrist comfort.
2. Ergonomics of recoil vectors.
3. Ergonomics of doctor patient spatial relationships including technique relationship to instrument shape and size.
4. Patient comfort to thrust at cervical, thoracic and lumbar settings.
5. Patient comfort to pulsed repetitive thrust.
6. Doctor=s overall perceived results of adjustment.
7. Patients overall reaction or summation of treatment by adjustor.
8. Doctors overall analysis of the sound instrument makes the weight and visual appearance including color and shape.
Method 1: Beta Project shall send initial prototype instruments to Dr. Frye and Chiropractic doctors in the Activator Methods International Group. These doctors have been rated as proficient in the technique of Activator.Ò Activator technique is taught in chiropractic colleges and these doctors are therefore determined to be qualified in instrument adjusting. Dr. Frye as the inventor and developer is deemed to be most proficient in the use and performance objectives of the instrument.
Results of initial group surveyed post Beta Project;
1. Ergonomics of hand wrist comfort B of the initial doctors surveyed, one doctor found the size of the adjustor to be too small for his hands. It is noted that this doctor has unusually large hands.
2. Ergonomics of recoil vectors- All surveyed 100% found the vector of force into the hand wrist to be diverted from the carpel tunnel area. While reporting the vector force to be removed from the carpel tunnel area, one doctor suggested we make the adjustor into a syringe form to allow for less wrist force applied by doctor however, this was not found as a valid suggestion as the status quo predecessor instrument has that shape and places the long axis vector forces directly into the carpel tunnel.
3. Ergonomics of patient doctor spatial relationship was overall favorable however 2 doctors reported that their hand was too close to the patient in some positions. One found the close proximity to the patient’s buttock or pubic region that is required by certain patient conditions of the coccyx, or pubic bone misalignment to potentially be a liability.
4. Patient comfort to thrust was found to be a high level of comfort compared to the status quo instrument.
5. Patient comfort to pulsed repetitive thrust was found to be highly positive as reported by all doctors.
6. Doctors overall results or success of adjustments with the adjustor were very favorable. Post adjustment vertebral testing by activator technique indicated a very high clearing of subluxations.
7. Patients overall response to adjustments with the adjustor was favorable. Many reports were that the patients found the adjustment thrust to be much more comfortable than the ActivatorÒ instrument particularly in the cervical area.
8. Sound of the instrument was found to be unsatisfactory by 50% of the doctors. There is a slight quacking sound made at lower settings.
All doctors in the test group found weight satisfactory however; some doctors use a very light preload pressure to patient and receive a greater perceived kickback. Dr. Frye found the instrument too light and wants a slightly heavier instrument to absorb more recoil at higher settings.
Color was found to be unsatisfactory by 50% of those surveyed. Many suggestions from blue, gold and white were made. It was a consensus of 50% as well as Dr. Frye the black made the instrument look too much like a pistol or gun.
Conclusion: Results of the Beta project initial survey were then compiled and the following actions are taken:
1. Instrument size was altered to a longer barrel and larger hand grip. This reduced doctor patient contact in sensitive areas and aided doctors with larger hands (see attachment A Blueprints).
2 No change in chosen shape was made, as this is most ergonomically effective shape suggested.
3. As per suggestion 1 and 3, we enlarged the instrument.
4. No change in thrust comfort action.
5. Multiple pulse action, no change.
6. No change in thrust mechanism
7. No change
8. Sound was found unsatisfactory and the piston sleeve was enlarged by .002 (see Attachment A blueprints). This resulted in no change to performance however it removed the air vibration over the piston and silenced the vibratory sound.
Weight is increased to 1.6 pounds and the recoil was reduced making a more long term comfort and less long term repetitive trauma to doctor.
Color is changed from black to gold as to not assume the look of a gun/pistol.
Method 2: Beta Project secondary survey of over 100 doctors at the Activator Instructors Seminar in
The newly revised Adjustor based on the initial Beta Project recommendations is revealed at the Instructors seminar. During the seminar, doctors are sent to the Air Adjustor station. A Chiropractic adjusting table and the Air Adjustor are set up with Dr. Frye demonstrating the instrument. Dr. Frye explained the basic method of mechanics of the instrument as well as the basic laws of physics that are incorporated in the design. The doctors are then adjusted by Dr. Frye and are able to experience the comfort, force and effectiveness of the adjustment.
Post Adjustment, each doctor then uses the instrument on another doctor viewing the instrument. Qualities of the adjustor were then evaluated by the doctor using the instrument. Each doctor was aided in the best thrust delivery with instruction by Dr. Frye. Post Adjustment, the doctors were asked to evaluate the kickback, their estimation of the effectiveness of the adjustment, comfort of thrust as a patient and general impressions of the instrument.
Results:
45 of 100 doctors had initial difficulty in keeping sufficient preload pressure prior and during adjustment thrust.
65 out of 100 evaluated the kickback as much less than the present instrument they were using.
60 out of 100 felt as a patient they liked the feel of the thrust in the lumbar thoracic and cervical. Many of this group indicated that the Air Adjustor was smoother upon adjustment than the ActivatorÒ.
5 women doctors questioned that the instrument might be too heavy for them.
10 doctors wanted the instrument to be smaller in length.
0 complaints about color
2 doctors indicated that we should anodize the instrument instead of powder coating it.
0 complaints concerning sound
Conclusion: Actions taken per Phoenix Seminar Beta Project;
No changes in mechanics taken. Not sufficient to make changes.
Preload instructions determined to accompany shipment material.
VARIABILITY OF FORCE MAGNITUDE AND FORCE DURATION IN MANUAL AND INSTRUMENT-BASED MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES
