Upper Cervical

Lie down on your back on a firm surface:

• Are your hips lying down evenly?
• Is one leg shorter than the other?
• Are you comfortable lying on your back?

Stand in front of a mirror:

• Is your head tilted on one side?
• Are your ears even?
• Is one shoulder higher than the other?
• Is one hip lower than the other?
• Does your body lean to one side or the other?
• Are your pant legs even on both sides?
• Can you stand comfortably on both feet?
• Is one foot turned out more than the other?

Do you...

• Feel pain, tension, or stiffness in your neck or back?
• Have a hard time getting comfortable when you go to bed?
• Wake up at night due to pain?
• Have pain one one side of the body and not the other?
• Get fatigued easily?
• Feel old beyond your years?
• Have things you are no longer able to do?
• Have difficulty getting up from a sitting position?
• Get easily winded (short of breath)?
• Have a sluggish digestion?
• Have headaches?
• Have allergies?
• Have recurring infections?

Symptoms may be structural:

• Involving the muscles, joints, and discs of your neck, back, and pelvis
• From the uneven stress on the spinal disc from misalignment
• Can also involve shoulders, hips and knees
• SYMPTOMS: Stiffness, cramping, pain, numbness, tingling, shaking, lack of sensation, weakness, inflammation and degeneration

Symptoms may be related to the Nervous System:

• Mechanical tension on your brain, brain stem, spinal cord and the nerves exiting your spine 
• SYMPTOMS: seizures, learning disabilities, emotional disturbances, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, migraine headaches and disequilibrium 

Symptoms may be related to Functions Regulated & Controlled by the Nerves:

• Respiratory Complications (allergies, asthma, and shortness of breath)
• Digestive Disturbances (acid reflux, indigestion, IBS, spastic colon)
• Circulatory Problems (cold hands or feet)
• Reproductive Problems (dysmenorrhea, infertility, ED)
• Hormone Imbalances
• Weakened body functions also sets the stage for infections and disease and reduces the body's natural ability to heal from them
• Loss of normal functioning of nerves can limit the ability of the body to heal from trauma and disease - correcting the spinal misalignment is not a treatment for cancer, diabetes or Parkinson's disease, but a normally functioning nervous system is necessary to allow the body to effectively deal with these and many other diseases

• Accidents & Injuries
• A tear in the connective tissues that holds your spine together
• Allowing your body to break down
• Locking your head, spine, and pelvis into a stressed position

It gets worse over time...

• It goes undetected at first
• Over time, spinal bones and discs break down
• This misaligned condition becomes progressive and degenerative
• The longer it is misaligned the worse it gets