The force used to create the correction is a percussive force. Every patient has an angle specific to them. The doctor will take several x-rays of the patient’s head and neck, which will give the necessary and accurate readings to figure the precise adjusting angle for each individual. It is the expertise of board certified Atlas Orthogonal Chiropractors to specifically and gently deliver an adjustment with use of the Atlas Orthogonal Table Mounted Precision Adjusting Instrument. When this happens, you may feel burning, numbness, and tingling effects from the nerve, as well as symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, facial pain, sinus pain, allergies, and a multitude of other symptoms due to the lack of blood supply to and from the brain. When the Atlas bone becomes subluxated, it often chokes the artery that provides roughly 75% of blood flow to the brain as well as local nerves and nerves that go to the entire body! This is unlike any other area region in the body. It is also of vital importance because it has major arteries as well as nerves passing through it. The Atlas has the most range of motion of all the vertebrae, making it most susceptible to misalignment. This can result in low back and leg pain. However, the rest of your body will shift to compensate, thereby causing leg length inequality.

When the Atlas is misaligned, your head will shift in order to see a level horizon line. However, if you untwist a rope from the very top and let it go, the entire rope will hold in the straightened position. If you untwist a rope in the center and let it go, the rope will go back to the twisted position. The other vertebrae follow the position of the Atlas similar to a twisted rope. Sitting at the top of the spine, it is like the steering wheel. You might say the Atlas bone is the leader of the spinal column. The goal of the Atlas Orthogonal adjustment is to realign the misaligned atlas bone to an orthogonal position. Orthogonal means at a right angle or 90 degrees. The Atlas is the first bone in the spine, located at the base of the skull. As a result, pain and/or dysfunction is decreased or eliminated, your posture improves, the body stays healthier and you become more resistant to illness. Atlas Orthogonal Chiropractic Treatment aligns the spine, which restores your natural balance and allows the body’s nervous system to keep its lines of communication open. Notice how if the communication lines between the brain and body are impeded, the brain cannot properly control the endless functions of the body. How about stepping on a tack? If the communication lines to send that message to the brain were being blocked or disrupted by pressure on nerves to the foot your body would not be able to send the proper information necessary to heal the foot. You would lack the pain reflex to withdraw your hand immediately and suffer severe damage. Imagine touching a hot pan and not having proper communication with the brain. The body instinctively tries to compensate for these imbalances and this causes stress throughout the spine which can lead to postural distortion and more importantly, disruption of communication between the body and the brain. This is a serious threat, as many people associate the lack of pain as a sign of health. Not all subluxations cause pain, but they can still create imbalance and dysfunction at some level. Subluxations can occur anywhere in the body where a bony misalignment negatively affects a spinal nerve. This irritation from a bony misalignment is known as a subluxation. When the atlas is misaligned, it not only negatively affects the vertebral artery (blood supply to 75% of the brain), but also causes irritation to vital nerves that travel throughout the entire body.

It is the vertebra that the head sits on.

Atlas chiropractic