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You know, I was in practice as a chiropractor for 30 years.

I've probably personally worked on close to 40,000 different people in that period of time.

I've given a lot of adjustments and I wish I would have known back then what I know now,

especially when people had chronic misalignment problems, especially in the neck,

and specifically in the first cervical vertebra called the atlas.

People would come in all the time and you have to keep me adjusting them over and over and over.

So in this video, I'm going to talk about an interesting situation that's quite common with a lot of

people and involves the atlas. What is the atlas? The atlas is the first cervical vertebra.

It's a vertebra like a ring and it sits right underneath the skull.

The entire skull sits on this one cervical vertebra and over 90% of all your motion your neck

occurs from C1. So if you can't move your neck too well to the right or left,

chances are it's going to be the first cervical vertebrae that's going to be involved.

Now what's unique about this first vertebrae is that you have the brainstems extending through

this vertebrae as well as in the second one called the axis. So in other words, part of your brain

actually extends out of your skull into the first and second vertebrae and if that vertebra

is misaligned you can have all sorts of issues that are related to the brainstem.

Your breathing can be affected. You can get headaches, migraine headaches,

tenitis, it's ringing the ears, jaw pain, you can get neck pain, back pain, actually lower back pain

from your neck. Why? Because it's all connected. You can have a lot of lack of motion in your neck

even in your shoulders. You can become dizzy. You can feel nauseated, which I'm going to talk about

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