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developed a condition at age 13 that left me in so much pain that I could barely walk, I bucked the usual trend. Ten years later, I had serious digestive problems, attention defi cit (accompanied by a mental haze), and four straight years of pain all day, every day. I saw many different doctors and
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therapists that concerned themselves with treating my symptoms. “We’re going to try this,” I was often told. It was like I was an experiment to test out the next popular theory. No one seemed to be asking what was causing my conditions. Some gave me medications, others supplements, adjust- ments, or exercises, but nobody told me
our health is not supposed to decline when you are young. That happens much later in life, they say. So, when I
WHY I was in the shape that I was in or HOW what they were doing was going to solve the problem. Treating my symptoms did make me feel better, occasionally, but it was only temporary. I got tired of temporary relief; I wanted long-term solutions. At age 23, while living and going to
school in St. Louis, I was introduced to Upper Cervical Care. Within 3 weeks, the pain I’d had for ten years was gone; within 3 months, I could focus, that mental fog went away, and my digestive system was on the mend. My life was changed. The doctor that I met who introduced
me to Upper Cervical Care was sympa- thetic to my symptoms, but was more inter- ested in what was causing them. He taught me the importance of understanding how
the human body works, so that I can better understand how my body would develop the various health conditions that it had. In other words, if you don’t understand the cause, how can you possibly hope to elimi- nate its eff ects? That made a lot sense to me.
In teaching me about the body, he
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started at the beginning with development. The brainstem develops fi rst in utero. It's the most important part of our bodies, respon- sible for directing the remainder of develop- ment and ultimately governing the function of the brain and every vital organ, muscle, tissue, and cell. Digestion, immune re- sponse, movement, blood pressure, struc- tural balance, breathing, reproduction, urination, hormone production, etc. system- atically occurs because the brainstem allows for it. The skull and top vertebra in the spine align around the brain and brainstem to protect them, forming your structural foun- dation. So, if that alignment is lost, the brainstem may become impaired and its ability to quarterback the functions of your body may be weakened. Abnormal function leads to abnormal conditions developing. Also, with the foundational balance shifted, the rest of the body will structurally com- pensate by causing muscle tone to change from side-to-side, making you more suscep- tible to injury, spasm, and otherwise that lead to discomfort, stiff ness, and pain. In a perfect world, the brainstem would
ensure that your body works normally and without disruption, and you would stay structurally balanced all the time. Unfortu- nately, we all undergo trauma in our lives. I had numerous accidents and falls as a kid, including two car accidents. These things happen to all of us. Most of your body is well protected against these incidents. Not the brainstem area, though. Christopher Reeve (Superman) repre-
sents an extreme example. He fell off a horse and considerably damaged his brainstem. He could not move and three of his vital
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