Does Upper Cervical Chiropractic really work?
Channel: The Upper Cervical Spine Center
Date: 2019-06-06

Hi, I'm Doctor Ray Drury with The Upper Cervical Spine Center. The two most common questions I get asked are:

* Does Upper Cervical Chiropractic really work?
* How come we never heard of this before?

Let's start off with question number one. Does Upper Cervical Chiropractic really work? I'm standing here in front of one of our many walls of fame. Obviously, yes, we have testimonials from everyone from tiny little babies on up to elderly people, from people that have come to this office from as far away as Italy, to China, and all over the United States.

Yes, Upper Cervical Chiropractic works. Well, how does Upper Cervical Chiropractic work? It's based off of the very simple law that your body was designed to take care of itself. You have everything you need within your own body to heal itself, regardless of condition.

Let's start with the very basic stuff that we know. Let's say you were to take a knife and run it across the back of your hand and cut your hand. What's going to happen? It takes care of itself. You don't have to put anything on it. You don't have to do anything to it. You just keep it clean, and your body has the ability to come in and repair the damage and heal itself.

Your body is designed to take care of itself from head to toe. If you were to break a bone, all you have to do is just get the bones realigned back up, and they mesh themselves back together and they heal the broken bone. That's how you're designed. Your body's designed to take care of itself. It doesn't need any help, but that process cannot be interfered with. There's one place, and only one place in the body that the process can be interfered with, without having some sort of gross pathology, and that's the upper part of the neck: the Upper Cervical spine, the top two bones where the brain stem comes through the head and then turns into your spinal cord as it goes down.

This vital area sends all the messages from your brain to your heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, arms, and legs. If a bone gets out of alignment here, it can interfere with that natural healing process that innately tells us to keeps your heart running, keep your digestion working, keep your heart rate moving, and to keep your immune functions strong. If any of those processes get interfered with, your body functions at less than potential and less than optimal level, and then that's when symptoms start to set it. That's when disease processes start to set in.

Let's say your stomach all of a sudden doesn't digest food the way it's supposed to. Maybe it moves too slow, maybe it doesn't bring in the proper digestive enzymes, maybe it causes heartburn, reflux, indigestion, or colitis. What happens if you don't get the full messages to the colon? Maybe you have diarrhea or constipation, or maybe your digestion just stops all together. Maybe you have Crohn's Disease.

Now, if the message from the brain that controls that part of the body gets interfered with, then it doesn't work the way it's intended to. There's no drug deficiency that causes any health problem known to man. No drug has ever fixed any health problem known to man. Why, because no one has ever had a drug deficiency that's caused one single health problem. If you get a headache, do you think that headache came from a Tylenol deficiency? No. Will taking Tylenol ever fix it? Never. It only masks it. It covers it, but the problem's still there, which eventually, if left uncorrected, could lead to bigger problems later, not to mention the side effects of drugs.

Does Upper Cervical Chiropractic work? Yes. How does it work? We maximize your natural healing potential by making sure that all the messages from your brain to your body flow to your body unimpeded. Let's take for example: Let's say you had a garden hose and you stepped on the garden hose. You don't get the full flow of water to the garden or the yard. What happens? It starts to die. What happens if you take your foot off the garden hose and now all of a sudden you get that full flow of life? If it happens early enough, before it's completely dead, then things start to come back to life and things start to grow again like they're intended.

The same thing happens to us. If you cut off the flow of life from the brain to any part of your body, then that part of the body starts to die or deteriorate prematurely. If you can open up the communication, you get a full flow of life. It starts to heal and it starts to live to its maximum potential. That's all that anyone can ask for. That's what we hope for, for you!

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