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Upper Cervical Spine Chiropractic Care

The Vagus Nerve and Musculoskeletal Pain By a wide margin, people go to chiropractors for the management of musculoskeletal pain. Recent formal reviews of the chiropractic profession indicate that 93% of chiropractic patients initially seek chiropractic care for spinal pain complaints: 63% for low back pain and 30% for neck pain. Patient satisfaction with their […]

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The Thoracic Spine and Neck Pain

Neck pain is a very common condition that is the second most common reason patients seek chiropractic care (after low back pain). The term “mechanical neck pain” is a common classification defined as pain located in the cervical spine or cervicothoracic junction that is elicited and/or exacerbated by cervical motion and/or palpation of cervical musculature.

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Whiplash and the Thoracic Spine

Though whiplash associated disorders (WAD) is a term used to encompass the myriad of symptoms associated with whiplash injury, research has largely focused on the neck, and more recently, brain. However, there is another area of the body that often experiences injury during trauma involving the sudden back and forth movement of the head and

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