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In this article, we will discuss a patient named Yvonne who recovered from extreme debilitating neck pain that was the result of a cervical disc bulge. Like most patients who land in our Los Angeles based upper cervical chiropractic office, they have usually exhausted every other option when they find out about upper cervical care.
Prior to being referred to our office, Yvonne had tried acupuncture, massage, and regular chiropractors. None of these care providers were able to correct the cause of her problem. Like most people that suffer from chronic pain, dealing with things that most of us take for granted can become overwhelming.
Cervical disc issues usually cause severe deep searing pain that can travel down the arm emanating from the neck. Simple tasks like shopping, working at the computer, and sleeping can become unbearable. Pain has a way of taking you from being focused on the present moment into a world of rumination, begging for relief and peace.
Thankfully, in Yvonne's case, following upper cervical care, she saw a complete resolution of her pain. It did not occur overnight, but time and staying corrected in the upper cervical spine allowed the body to heal. In this article, we will talk about how the top two bones in your neck, known as the atlas and axis, are at the seat of control of the majority of the functions of your body.
How Correcting the Neck can Lead to Disc Bulge Pain Recovery and Better Health
Healing can take time and usually does not happen overnight. We grow up in a symptom-based medication treatment health system. The current system rarely asks the question of what is the cause of the problem. They are fantastic at diagnosis and naming your condition but terrible at fixing the cause.
While surgical intervention and pain medication is sometimes necessary it is advised that people who suffer from these types of health problems search out conservative measures first before undergoing irreversible fusion surgery or long term symptom-based pain medication treatment.
Disc injury often occurs over a period of time. Posture imbalance leads to repetitive micro-injury to the discs which over time can weaken the outside part of the disc known as the annulus fibrosis.
Then there is usually an episode where the person lifts something "wrong" or moves in the " wrong" direction and the patient feels pain radiate from the neck down the arm.
Usually, the patient blames the activity, not realizing that there was an underlying imbalance that weakened the structure, and the activity is the proverbial straw that breaks the camels back. So how does this all relate to the alignment of the upper neck?
The atlas and axis at the top of the neck house the brainstem. The brainstem contains many vital nerve nuclei that are at the seat of control for cardiac function, respiratory function, blood pressure regulation and for this topic of discussion postural muscle tone.
When someone has an injury that misaligns the skull neck junction a cascade of effects follows. Because the neck controls the postural muscle tone, a misalignment in the neck causes imbalances in muscle tone which leads to postural imbalance.
When the body distributes it's weight unevenly, the head moves forward of its balanced axis, and over time this can lead to micro-tears in the disc. As we have already discussed, this sets up the perfect storm for a disc injury that affects the cord reproducing the pain experienced by many disc bulge sufferers.
Correcting the underlying cause, spinal misalignment can allow the body to restructure and balance itself. While not an overnight process, if the disc hasn't reached an irreparable state oftentimes upper cervical care can produce the recovery that was experienced by Yvonne in our office.
What Exactly Does a Blair Upper Cervical Doctor Do?
Blair Upper Cervical doctors are specially trained to locate spinal misalignments in the upper cervical spine and correct them. Spinal misalignment is located by running a battery of neurological tests that locate the spinal segments that have been injured and misaligned by a prior neck injury.
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