Neck Pain: The most common causes of neck pain are irritation to the nerve roots that exit from between the vertebrae in the neck and muscle sprains and sprains, soreness and stiffness resulting from injuries, poor posture, deteriorating posture and weak postural muscles.  Another major cause of moderate to severe neck pain are bulging and herniated discs pressing on the nerve roots or spinal cord.  Conventional treatments for neck pain run the gamut from mild to strong pain killers, muscle relaxers and anti-inflammatories, to soft and hard restrictive collars static traction, heat or cold packs to surgery. None of these do anything to permanently restore normal spinal biomechanics to lessen or eliminate pressure on, and irritation to the discs, ligaments, nerves and muscles of the neck.  With our comprehensive protocol, we first determine if the patient is strong enough to hold a permanent structural correction of the weak areas that are causing the irritation to the nerves in the neck.  If they are not, it is a waste of time and money to attempt to start that correction and focus should initially be solely on pain relief and beginning the process of freeing and/or strengthening the components of the neck and then retesting 2 – 3 weeks later to then see if that patient is ready to begin instituting a permanent correction.  Once all the biomechanical measurements are correlated, we can then begin to teach each patient what they individually should do to restore the normal relationship of the bones, discs, nerves, muscles and ligaments in their neck.  Patients with bulging or herniated discs or postural muscles that are particularly resistant to change respond very well to the spine and disc decompression protocol that we offer.

Lower Back Pain:  With lower back pain, even life’s simplest activities can become a torturous challenge.  Simple bending, putting on ones shoes, sitting for work or travel, caring for our family, even walking, standing or sleeping can instigate pain.  In reviewing over 30 years of in depth new patient evaluations, it has become clear that even with lower back pain of sudden onset, at least 95% of the time, long standing imbalances of muscles, discs, ligaments and improper spinal alignment have conspired to create fertile ground for even the slightest daily extra strain to cause a collapse of spinal stability.  Once the spine had lost its stability, it is easy for nerves to become impinged by misplaced vertebrae, or bulging/herniated discs, causing mild to severe pain.  One can treat pain with medications and rest, or even surgery to remove the disc or bony material causing the nerve pain, but unless all of the lower back’s, and in fact even the whole spine’s biomechanical factors are addressed, most lower back pain episodes will recur.  Our full spine, comprehensive approach to restore, as closely as is possible, normal spinal form and function, ensures that the nerves, spinal bones, ligaments, muscles and discs all function together properly, without the nerves and discs becoming irritated.  Of course, our primary concern is to first bring relief from the pain, and with the spinal and disc decompression protocol we offer, relief often comes rapidly.  However, relief is only part of the process.  We must then, figure out each patient individually, to find out exactly where the weak areas are that have allowed the spine to deteriorate, and teach that patient what they personally need to do to strengthen these area so we do not see them back here with the same or similar problem again.  This ensures your ability to fix the cause of your low back pain and keeps you from becoming dependent upon us.  One other factor that is almost always overlooked in treating low back pain: If any existing forward head posture is not corrected, and the normal shock absorbing curves of the lower back and neck are not restored, the lower back pain will almost assuredly return, often worse, and the spine and posture will continue to deteriorate.  The spine must be addressed globally for rapid and complete recovery.