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Back and Neck Pain

Contrary to conventional wisdom, back and neck pain aren't caused by a lack of aspirin or pain pills. Back or neck pain is almost always caused by abnormal joint motion. Stress can build up in the spine from an old injury or from a slowly developing postural injury. This stress causes pain and nerve pressure, which results in the pain symptoms in the back and neck. However, the real cause of the pain is the vertebral misalignment.

Is it hard to look over your shoulder? Is there a constant pulling or throbbing pain in your neck? Do you notice a "grinding" sound as you turn your head? These are signs that your cervical vertebrae are significantly misaligned and need to be put back in alignment. An old neck injury can affect the entire spine, above and below it. The joints in the neck have many more nerve endings in the joints than the similar areas in the spine below it. The body has the ability to adapt to spinal injuries and is geared toward protecting the balance of the head. Therefore, stress can set into the lower back regions simply because of a neck injury. That's not the only cause for low back pain, but it is a rather common cause and a complicating factor to head and low back pain.

We examine the entire spine from top to bottom and we remove subluxation* complexes wherever we find them.

*A vertical subluxation is a minor misalignment of a vertebrae that causes nerve interference. A subluxation complex is nerve interference and joint degeneration with inflammation of soft tissues.