The Ultimate Pain Remedy - NUCCA (Part 1) [Episode #9]

“Why I Am A NUCCA Doctor" First of all, just what the heck IS a NUCCA doctor?  Well, the letters stand for National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association, and the application focuses on the nervous system and how it is affected by spinal misalignment, specifically as it pertains to the upper cervical vertebrae, the juncture between the brain and the body.  Correcting these misalignments restores communication between the two and allows healing to take place. Now most people, when they think of chiropractic care, typically think of the standard “snap, crackle, and pop” of spinal manipulation that we are all so familiar with.  While that may make a person feel better in some instances—and I certainly have no problem with that—that is not what I do.  What I am looking for, when I examine a patient—abnormalities that affect the heart, lungs, stomach, immune system, reproductive system, health of the skin, eyes, ability to think—cannot be found by touch alone.  These structural problems in the body can only be seen via x-ray.   Allow me to give you an example that is very near and dear to my heart—the story of Mary’s son.   He was to be going into first grade when Mary and I got married; however, she had decided to hold him back a year due to him having an extremely tough time learning to read.  He was a bright boy, but he couldn’t tell the difference between the letter “U” and the number “5.”   I x-rayed him and found that he was ten degrees out of vertical alignment.  This is huge, by the way, for a little five-year-old boy.  I made a series of corrections (small movements, not “adjustments”), which gently place the structures back into position, freeing up the nerves in the brainstem, allowing him to think.    In one month, he was the top in his class.  He graduated from high school a salutatorian.   I have countless stories like this one.  85% of the brain’s functioning is information coming INTO the brain.  That information—communication, really—is coming from the body, through the nerves, up through the vertebrae of the neck, and into the brain.  The disruption of these nerves as they pass through these upper cervical vertebrae can cause a whole host of dysfunctions within the body—everything from the body’s ability to regulate blood pressure or sugar levels to the hormonal release that takes place as your body goes through the process of digestion.   So this is why I am a NUCCA doctor.  Even before your heart begins beating in utero, the nervous system is already being laid out to all the cells of the body.  A misalignment the thinness of a piece of paper has the power to wreak havoc in multiple systems.  Bones hold us up; muscles move the bones; but it’s the nervous system that is the very expression of life.  My job is to free up that expression to allow for true healing to take place, because after all, life isn’t just about staying alive—it’s about really living.