Chiropractic
The
practice conducted in this office is called Upper Cervical Technique. This means that the
adjustment is given in the upper neck, applied to the first cervical bone
called the atlas or C-1. The reason for correcting the atlas is that it
affects the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) when it
subluxates. Because all other nerve systems in the body join the central
nervous system, an atlas subluxation affects the entire body.
As a
result of an atlas subluxation, the patient’s entire spine and pelvis
are distorted from its true axis by spastic contracture of the spinal
extensor muscles because the atlas subluxation interferes with the
essential inhibitory control to the muscles. A very precise adjustment is
therefore, necessary to obtain an atlas subluxation correction sufficient
to restore spinal balance and inhibitory control by regulating the
neuro-mechanisms in the brain stem.
The atlas
or C-1 subluxation is known as the Atlas
Subluxation Complex (ASC) because it distorts the spine and
pelvis. Vertebrae below the atlas are also misaligned in over 90 percent of
the cases and must be realigned by a C-1 adjustment. Thus it is a
complex-composed of many parts. The complex is a biological stressor, a
strain or interference affecting the entire body. If the spine and pelvis
measure normal after an adjustment, the electro-chemical flow of the
nervous system is balanced.
WHAT IS
NUCCA?
What every
person should know. What does it mean ~ Who ~ What ~ Why ~ When
~ How!
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