People often ask me, “When should I come back?” This is a
fair question and an important one. Some people only return to the office when
life has become too difficult again. “Doc, that pain has returned and I can’t
play golf”. “I’ve been feeling it for four or five months but just in the past
couple of days I find that I can’t get comfortable in bed at night”. “I thought
it would go away but it just keeps returning and it seems to be getting worse!”
“This is a different pain than last time and I didn’t think it was related.” “I
didn’t think you could help so I went to five other doctors, got cortisone
shots, did weeks of physical therapy, had two MRI’s and now the surgeon wants
to operate.”
These and many more are common comments from patients when
they return to my office in acute pain or problem. The vast majority of the
time, an upper cervical correction will once again, return them to health and happiness. “I
didn’t realize you could help this!” “I didn’t know it was related to my neck!”
“My other doctor told me you couldn’t help this.” “This is voodoo!”.
I hear these and many other comments like these every day.
This is why educating patients is almost as important as the actual upper cervical correction. If you
don’t know when I can be of help, you won’t come in to get the correction you
need to return you to health or to maintain your health. This educational
problem is a deep one. In our society, people are generally not taught anything
about what we do or even how our bodies really work and therefore don’t realize
the results you receive from an upper cervical correction are even possible. We
have always grown our patient population one person at a time. Once you have received a correction and realized, felt, and lived the restoration that occurs, then
you begin to get the bigger picture. This picture is actually bigger than the
symptom expression in any one person -they know what it has done for them in
the past but many have no idea of the possibilities.
Let’s briefly explore (this is a whole book in itself!) the
areas and issues that can be affected by an upper cervical correction.
Through ongoing research, we now understand that
misalignment in the top of the neck changes blood flow through the head in a
dramatic fashion. It also changes flow of the cerebral spinal fluid, which
lubricates the brain and spinal cord and removes toxins. Many people have
headaches and brain fog that seem directly related. Dizziness and equilibrium
problems are frequently helped by upper cervical care. The cranial nerves also seem to
be affected by misalignment and many people have found improvement in vision,
hearing, TMJ and other facial problems. Many people remark they can’t take a
deep breath when they are out of alignment. Many people have noticed that
their blood pressure returns to normal when they get back in alignment. People
report that their esophageal reflux improves when they are in alignment . Many
people report that their digestion becomes disordered when they are out of
alignment and returns to normal once they’ve been back to the office. One of
my patients starts burping as soon as they are back in alignment and this is a
sign their gut is working again. We celebrate! I have several patients whose
nose starts running and clearing their sinuses right on the correction table! (I
have tissues!)
Many people have found that they begin to feel depressed
when they are out of alignment and that this will lift almost immediately when
they get an upper cervical correction. More than one person has told me they could finally get
pregnant after getting an upper cervical correction -after trying for years
without success. Seizures have often been greatly reduced or stopped all
together.
This is just a sampling of the thousands of people who have
come through the office over the years. We haven’t even gotten to pain yet. General Chiropractic care has been painted as “maybe good for low back pains at times” but
results in an upper cervical care office would tend to expand it’s usefulness. In the last week I
found patients telling me that their horrific trigeminal neuralgia pain was
gone. One person related that she had been sitting on doughnuts for years but
that she had come in for shoulder pains. After one correction her shoulder was
90% better but her tailbone pain was gone! So was the pain in her knee and
ankle. Several people were scheduled for surgery. Most of them cancelled it
after receiving relief. They had been told there was no other choice, but we
are a choice they don’t know about.
A proper upper cervical correction restores your body to an
optimal relationship with gravity. It restores the ability of your body to
function as a whole and not have to scramble to keep up with hips going one
way, shoulders another, and head yet another. Fighting gravity is a battle we
always lose. Gravity is relentless. The correction restores equipoise, that
ability of the body to balance easily right on the gravity line, a vertical
axis that goes through our middle. It is much the same as a gyroscope. When a
gyroscope has enough energy, it spins cleanly and easily. As it loses energy it
begins to wobble more and more in an attempt to remain upright. The extra
effort decreases its energy further and it increases its wobble until it falls
over. The correction restores all the ‘pieces’ (head, neck, trunk, hips) back
into alignment decreasing the energy needed just to keep us upright. This
energy can then be used where it is needed in the rest of our body maintaining
and restoring our well-being. We can think better. We have greater agility and
ease in moving about.
My experiences have shown me that upper cervical care is primary health care for human beings. It is a hidden jewel that
you have already found and has likely already made a change in your life. Like
any precious gift, the more you know about it, the better it can serve you. I
hope this piece has expanded your knowledge of upper cervical care. Now
let’s spread the word!
(Editor's note: Remember the
objective of upper cervical care is to correct head neck misalignment
that is interfering with proper brain to body communication. When this is
corrected the body functions at a higher level and can often correct other
problems more efficiently on its own. Please do
not confuse upper cervical care as a treatment for any condition, disease or symptom.)
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