Whitcomb technique- 

A chiropractic treatment (and claimed cure) for fibromyalgia.  Paul Whitcomb is a chiropractor who operated Fibromyalgia Relief Clinic in California, diagnosing fibromyalgia by his own technique of palpating behind the C-1 vertebrae- a technique not accepted by other chiropractors or the medical community.  He claimed:

• The primary cause is head or neck trauma that results in changes in the alignment between the base of the skull (occiput) and the topmost neck vertebra (atlas) that narrows when the opening at the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes.

• This "pulls" the membranes (meninges) that surround the cord, which knocks the sympathetic nervous system" out of whack and results in symptoms that, together, are labeled as fibromyalgia.

• The Whitcomb Technique aims to reduce the subluxation that causes the symptoms. . . . by freeing up the neurological structures that are being encroached upon, thus allowing the brain and spinal cord to return to normal function.

• The typical three–times–a–week treatment the average chiropractic patient receives is not sufficient to accomplish this for Fibromyalgia patients. Two or three times a day over a period of eight to ten weeks (eight weeks usually works the best and is the standard for most patients).

• Patients experience 90 to 100% relief, follow-up care is not needed in most cases.

Whitcomb claims that the symptoms of fibromyalgia include insomnia, anxiety, fatigue, emotional instability, depression, irritability, nervousness, mild to severe body pain, headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, rashes, trigeminal neuralgia, calcium deposits under the skin, and communication problems. He further claims that all of the glands can be affected, and that "because the nervous system controls the body and can affect all the systems," a "whole galaxy" of other symptoms can occur. Whitcomb's treatment protocol involves 14 neck manipulations per week for 8-12 weeks, with three on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, two on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and one on Sundays. In 2008, the cost was $7,000 in advance for the first two months and $3,500 for each additional month.  Whitcomb had his license revoked by the State of California in 2009 after finding him guilty of (a) repeated acts of clearly excessive treatment, (b) multiple acts of gross negligence (c) repeated incompetence, (d) defective charting, (e) disseminating false and misleading statements for the purpose of inducing patients to use his services.  Whitcomb changed the name of his clinics to Neurological Relief Centers and now has more than 200 clinics operating nationally 

There is no scientific evidence that either the diagnosis or the therapy using the Whitcomb technique has any validity