In order for you to get the most out of your care, it is important to understand the scientific basis for what we do and why we do it. More specifically, you need to understand how your body was created, how it functions and how it heals.

The very first system to develop after conception is the primitive neural tube or central nervous system. After the neural tube develops, your brain and all the organs grow from it as an immature heart, bud, lung buds, kidney buds, etc. By the time you are born, all of your tissues, muscles, glands, and internal organs receive a nerve supply to and from the spine. Your nervous system controls and coordinates ALL of your bodily functions.

In order to remain healthy and function properly, your brain must send and receive messages over the nervous system from each and every part of your body. This is called brain to body communication. When one of the top two bones in your neck become misaligned and interferes with this brain to body communication, it is called a subluxation (sub-lux-a-tion). Body imbalance occurs as the rest of your spine and pelvis compensates or adapts to this head and neck misalignment.