Neck Pain: Conventional vs New Method

Most folks who have neck pain in West Hartford have had neck problems for months or years. It usually started off as muscle soreness or stiffness occasionally and as time progressed the symptoms usually become more frequent and pain becomes greater. From the once-in-a while pain to constant pain in the neck.

Some even experience pain in their arms traveling down to their fingers. Weakness, pins and needles, even in painful when sneezing or coughing. When you dread sneezing because of the pain, you have a serious problem that will get worse if not attended to properly.

Conventional solutions or common ways to deal with neck pain only address the symptoms or pain, which is all well and good and does not address normal spinal structure. For example;

1. OTC or over -the - counter pills, kill pain temporarily and do not address correcting the structural problem.
2. Anti-inflammatory and muscle relaxers, kill pain and relax muscles. Muscles are tight because they are trying to  protect against further damage - it's your bodies way of stabilizing a problem area.  
3. PT and Conventional chiropractic - all good people and have three goals they are; decrease pain, increases how you move and decrease spasm - all well and good, and does not address abnormal structure.
4. Nerve injections if the first three are of little help - then pain meds are shot into the damaged area. Does not address abnormal structure, only looking to temporarily decrease pain
5. Surgery, from a disc ectomy (removal of the disc) to fusions with plates,screws and rods. Usually one surgery will  lead to further surgeries down the road. This does address abnormal structure. Recovery time is usually a few weeks to many months. 

The five conventional solutions are used all the time with vary amounts of success, you see if you feel better than that is counted as success, even though your structure was not corrected and the pain returns again, and again and again, so you do the above solutions over and over again.


Our focus at Advanced Chiropractic in West Hartford,is to correct your abnormal structure the first time and show you how to protect your corrected structure so you do not have to deal with neck pain over and over again. Our patients that work with us like that our approach is reasonable and just makes sense.

We look for Anterior Head Syndrome or AHS for short.

AHS has some tell tale indicators; muscle spasm/tension,  Dowagers Hump, compressed or damaged disc, damaged or degenerated bone and nerve impingement syndrome. If you have just one indicator then you have AHS, if you have more than one indicator, this means your AHS is more severe.

As you may of heard, your head weighs 12 - 16 pounds so for every inch your head and shoulders are rounded this puts 10 more pounds of harsh force to your neck structure. In other words because you head has shifted anterior/forward abnormally this rots your spine from the inside out.

No amount of rubbing muscles, electric stim, ultrasound, popping joints, stretching or strengthening muscles will ever correct the abnormal structure. Other health care providers just do not know how and really do not want to - they are happy doing the conventional, it is what it is.

We ONLY correct abnormal structure, not saying there are other approaches out there, it's just we us the Structural Correction approach, which is new to most and different from the conventional.

We do not use aggressive spinal manipulation, we do not have you come in forever or do excessive care and we are not a jack of all trades - meaning we are great at structural correction, not great at pulled muscles.

How is our method is new and different?

Our focus is structural correction, using specific spinal corrections, which is utilized with two different correcting instruments. These instruments are precise and very tolerable to you the patient. Which help you move better, take the pain away and decrease muscle spasm and tension as well as positively activates your nervous system.

The we use Structural rehab to enhance your spinal structure more towards normal, getting to the underlining cause of the problem and along the way we have you do Complementary Recommendations to help with the other 23 hours of the day you are not in our office. This is vital without the Structural Rehab or Complementary Recommendation you will not get the best out of your care. We are a team, so you and I both have to work at this with our best effort and you will be excited with your corrections.

Who should be our patient?

Patients who have periodic reoccurring symptoms, chronic patients, and those who have been to other conventional chiropractors and/or physical therapists, and have not experienced significant correction.


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