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, soreness and stiffness resulting from injuries, poor posture, deteriorating posture and weak postural muscles.  Another major cause of moderate to severe neck pain is 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 and even 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.  The focus should therefore be initially on pain relief and beginning the process of freeing and/or strengthening the components of the neck.  We then recommend retesting two-to-three weeks later to 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.