What every chiropractic patient should know

• Heidi Grant
• What is NUCCA?
• The nervous system
• History
• What every chiropractic patient
  should know
• Can I benefit from NUCCA?
• Evaluation and treatment
• Information for patients
• NUCCA educational programmes
• FAQ
• Useful links
• Affiliates
• Contact

Many different techniques are practised in chiropractic today, most designed to utilise the spine and nervous system to affect the health of the body. Today’s doctor of chiropractic may limit his or her scope of practice, employing various methods or techniques, simply to reduce pain or other symptoms Yet, others go beyond symptom management to restore the integrity of the spine and nervous system, promoting postural restoration and its effects on health and well-being.

The National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association (NUCCA) has developed a system of spinal restoration based on the body’s own engineering and design. Because each individual is different, the NUCCA system is designed to assess each person’s spine individually to determine if correction/restoration is necessary. Spinal injury at any age can result in a tearing or stretching of spinal muscles, ligaments and tendons. This damage allows for the misalignment and locking of individual bones in the spine, called vertebrae. As the top bone of the spine, the atlas – also known as C1 – is misaligned and distorted, signals from the brain through the nervous system, feeding all parts of the body, can be affected.   The goal of the NUCCA adjustment, or correction, is to balance the structures of the spine and pelvis to allow proper function throughout the nervous system, promoting health and healing naturally.

The NUCCA system is an evolution of previously developed systems of upper cervical chiropractic. The primary focus is on a measurable, predictable and reproducible restoration of body balance using the relationship of the skull to the cervical spine and their effect on the brainstem. Research by the research arm of NUCCA (The Upper Cervical Research Foundation) is ongoing to consistently improve outcomes. The applications of the relevant principles of mathematics, physics and biomechanics are applied to the correction of the atlas subluxation to minimise guesswork and maximise predictable outcomes.

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