Pain, Tingling, Numbness, Weakness of Arms and/or Hands:  Symptoms such as these are almost always caused by the misalignment of the neck bones, bulging or herniated cervical discs, arthritic growths in the neck and forward head posture.  Their most common cause is irritation to the nerve roots that exit from between the vertebrae in 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.  The purpose of all of the above is ultimately to remove the pressure from the roots if the nerves in the neck, thereby allowing the arm symptoms to subside.