Understanding Subluxations & Pain | Chiropractor in Winter Garden, FL
Learn what a subluxation is, how spinal misalignments disrupt nerve flow, and how chiropractic care can restore proper function from brain to body.
Key Takeaways
- A subluxation is a vertebral misalignment that interferes with nerve impulses traveling from the brain to the body.
- Emotional, chemical, and physical stress are all common causes of subluxations.
- Upper cervical misalignments at the atlas (C1) can contribute to headaches, sinus problems, brain fog, and other neurological symptoms.
- Lower cervical subluxations can affect the thyroid, shoulders, elbows, hands, and cause numbness, tingling, and upper back pain.
- Chiropractic care can reduce subluxations and restore proper nerve flow to help resolve symptoms caused by spinal misalignment.
Overview
What Is a Subluxation — and Why Does It Matter?
A subluxation is a misalignment of one or more vertebrae that creates a neurological disruption between the brain and the body. In this video, the doctor uses a simple but powerful analogy: imagine a dimmer switch gradually reducing the flow of electricity to a light. When a subluxation is present, nerve impulses from the brain are similarly "dimmed" — reducing the signal reaching the cells, organs, and tissues that depend on it.
Subluxations can be triggered by three core stressors:
- Emotional stress
- Chemical stress
- Physical stress
The Cervical Spine: A Critical Crossroads
The video places particular focus on the upper and lower cervical spine. Misalignments at the top of the neck — specifically at the atlas (C1) — can contribute to a wide range of neurological symptoms including headaches, sinus issues, brain fog, and even stroke-like presentations. Further down the cervical spine, nerves branching from the brachial plexus supply the muscles of the neck, the thyroid, and the entire arm — meaning subluxations here can manifest as shoulder pain, elbow issues, hand problems, numbness, tingling, and upper back pain.
At Atlas Injury to Health, targeted chiropractic care — including specialized upper cervical work — is used to reduce subluxations and restore proper nerve flow, helping patients move from dysfunction back toward full, healthy function.
Full Transcript
A lot of people ask us, what's a self-vixation? Well, self-vixation is where there's a misalignment in the vertebra, which causes a neurological issue. It can be caused by emotional stress, chemical stress, physical stress. And the best analogy is, is if you had a light on, and then there was a dimmer switch, as that switch is turned down, there's less flow of nerve impulse from the brain to the body wherever that nerve goes so it could be cell organ or tissue and the neck itself the top of the neck can be used as a stroke sinuses headaches brain fog you name anything neurological can happen at the top of the neck which is the atlas work that we do in the lower neck the nerves that come out of here could go to the muscles of the neck, thyroid, the thyroid function, the nerves go down the arm from the brachial plexus. You get a shoulder issues, elbow issues, hand issues, numbness and tingling, and even upper back pain can be generated from the cervical spine. And with the type of work that we do here at Alessandra to Health, subluxations can be reduced by chiropractic care and the nerve flow can be restored to its proper functional value from the brain to the body to help with symptoms that you see from those misalignments.