What Is A Misalignment?
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What actually happens when the spine misaligns?

Well, for one thing, as the picture below shows, the head falls out of the vertical axis causing the skull's center of gravity to be pulled off to the right or left of the center point in the spine. Although it may take years for pain and other symptoms to appear, this is where and how the actual structural breakdown of the entire spine begins  :

What happens next?
Muscles stretch or tighten at the base of the skull causing, among other symptoms, 95% of  all  headaches :

The head weighs much more than the neck, and when the head and the neck begin to buckle, or kink,the rest of the spinal structure from the shoulders down to the feet, lose the battle against gravity, as the head is pulled by gravity to one side or the other:

Also you have a general distortion pattern of the entire spinal structure taking place following the original misaligning injury or trauma as shown below  :

Now...just what is it I do as a NUCCA Doctor  ?
You know what we are looking for by now, the spinal misalignment. But what are we trying to achieve? Well, obviously, balance. It is our work to restore the structural relationships in the spine so that all the misaligning forces are removed and the spine is brought back to the vertical axis, measurable as in the next picture  :