Well, that’s like throwing some paint at the wall and hoping it sticks exactly WHERE you want it to and exactly HOW you want it to.
Not a very safe and effective plan, huh?
Upper cervical chiropractic care isn’t about getting your neck or back “cracked,” and it isn’t only for relieving neck and back pain.
There’s so much more to it than that.
Pittsburgh Upper Cervical Chiropractic (PUCC) is not your ordinary chiropractic office.
We provide specific individualized care with limited adjustments and lasting results. On the mission field in Guatemala and through eleven years of private practice in the Pittsburgh area, we have helped thousands of patients regain and maintain their health through upper cervical chiropractic care.
We are two of only a handful of upper cervical chiropractors in western Pennsylvania.
Most of our patients are from the Pittsburgh community; however, several of our patients travel hours from surrounding counties and states to receive our specific chiropractic care.
We have always been and continue to be committed to developing our expertise and expanding our knowledge base in order to better serve our patients and provide the highest quality of care.
Throughout our formal education, we achieved honors, participated in extracurricular activities (student government, on-campus clubs, student ambassadors), attended many extracurricular seminars, and shadowed and interned with fifteen different practicing chiropractors. We went on to complete an additional post-doctorate advanced level certification in Knee Chest Upper Cervical Specific care. This certification included supplementary training in precision x-ray analysis, instrumentation, specific adjusting, neurology, and philosophy. We also frequently seek educational advancement through books, webinars, and seminars.
We focus on finding and correcting the cause of your condition, not just treating your symptoms.
For every effect or symptom, there must be a cause. Upper Cervical Chiropractic is a specific form of health care focusing on the relationship between the top two bones in the neck (upper cervical spine) and a vital portion of the nervous system (brain stem). Every nerve impulse between the brain and the body must pass through the brain stem. Because the nervous system controls, coordinates, and regulates every function (immune, digestion, hormones, muscle tension, posture, emotions, senses, balance, breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, etc.) within the body, this communication pathway (brain-to-body and body-to-brain) must be working at an optimal level in order for you to function properly and be healthy. Irritation or pressure within the central nervous system can interrupt this communication pathway, thus creating a variety of health problems.
We use specific analysis with up-to-date technology to objectively monitor the presence and removal of irritation to the nervous system.
In order to objectively monitor patient progress, Infrared Paraspinal Thermography is used at every visit. A temperature sensitive device is guided along the spine, and a computerized analysis produces a graph. This graph reveals balance/imbalance and function/dysfunction of the nervous system. When clinically necessary, Precision Laser-Aligned Radiography is utilized to obtain precise and accurate x-ray images. The images are then analyzed to determine the three-dimensional displacement of the upper cervical vertebrae.
We use specific corrections.
Only when nervous system imbalance and dysfunction are present as indicated by paraspinal thermography, a specific chiropractic adjustment is delivered to the upper cervical spine to restore balance and function to the spine and nervous system. Following the adjustment, you will undergo a post-adjustment rest to allow the musculoskeletal and nervous systems to immediately begin the healing process. The rest is followed by another thermography scan to confirm that the correction was made. The correction restores proper brain-to-body and body-to-brain communication allowing the body to function better and heal itself.
We adjust you as little as possible.
We only adjust you when absolutely necessary, as indicated by our specific analysis procedures, and we focus on helping you attain and maintain lasting results.
We practice what we preach.
Every recommendation we make, from services to products, is something we personally use, support, and/or would recommend to our family and friends.
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We help people just like you get out of pain, overcome even the most challenging health problems, and get back to actually living.
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