There have been many interviews on The Atlas of Life, mostly with doctors and students.
But not everyone is a chiropractor or a chiropractic student. For those people who are not, I’ve posted excerpts from interviews I conducted with five upper cervical advocates. Enjoy!
James Tomasi: “I believed the spasm’s were worse immediately following the first correction. A few hours later I had the first break in the pain for over 9 months. The breaks increased in length sporadically the rest of the day. The pain decreased in intensity following each correction. After 3 corrections, 11 days later, I was pain free.
The pain was gone for 13 months. It returned intermittently over the next 3 years as my neck curvature restored to normal. (My head was in front of my shoulders and I had developed a hump on my back the size of two hands.) Once my neck reassumed the proper alignment, the nerve no longer affected my face, and the pain only returned for a few days the few times I experienced trauma to the atlas area.”
Rhonda Tomasi: “Health was progressive for me. Within 2 hours of my first specific correction the pain and swelling in my fingers left.
Within 2 weeks, the continual drainage in my throat stopped and I didn’t cough constantly.
It took 2 years of maintenance care, and moving into a different technique analysis, for my body to absorb the uterine fibroid tumors that caused my female problems. I experienced a normal 3-4 day cycle until I entered menopause. I never had mood swings, night sweats or any disruptive hormonal events when that happened over 5 years ago.
The most recent event happened after experiencing new trauma. I moved to a Grostic instrument technique, and my axis was corrected. My cough has not returned during the 12 months since that correction.
Before, if I ate wheat or got too tired, I would cough involuntarily. I also experienced extreme pain as my crooked toes and fingers straightened out.
Currently, my crooked teeth are still spreading out as my jaw widens. Very interesting, huh?”
Dennis Sanders: “My first correction did not help me at all, it took about 3 to 4 months of weekly treatments for me to get relief.
After 3 to 4 months my migraines were gone but I do have to get corrections on a regular basis or they come back.
I tell everyone I know that has back problems or headaches about upper cervical. It is so effective it is like a miracle. I can’t understand why upper cervical has not received huge amounts of press and is not all over the news. It is really sad because so many people could be helped.”
Greg Buchanan: “My life is totally different to what it was prior to my head injury and finding out about upper cervical chiropractic. As you may know I was working in the IT industry and was extremely successful. I worked for Apple Computer as their Technical Director in Australia for close on 10 years and for Microsoft also as Technical Director about 7 years. I had a blossoming IT career (since age 18) and considered myself as a seasoned IT professional. I had a young family and my life revolved around my family and my job. I regularly visited the USA for conferences and meetings and made many wonderful friends in America, S.E. Asia and here in Australia as a result of my career.
Following my head injury and subsequent list of distressing symptoms my life as I knew it came tumbling down. I could no longer function effectively at work or at home and found myself irritated easily. Anyone who knew me prior to my head injury would know that this was not at all consistent with my character.
But you see, medical professionals were telling me that all of my symptoms were basically in my head and that at 43 years of age I was getting old and should expect such health problems! What the..?!?
The only people sympathetic to what was occurring needless to say were my close friends and family. Now anyone will tell you that I’m a strong willed person but these events started to shake that very foundation. My beliefs and faith in the medical system disintegrated in front of my eyes.
To find an upper cervical chiropractor, which I might add was by sheer chance, was the most exhilarating, enjoyable, beautiful, and comforting experience ever. To know that there are people out there who actually listen to you, understand what you are going through and can help you is in stark contrast to what I experienced with the “modern” medical system.
After my first ‘specific’ adjustment of the atlas vertebra (C1) by a qualified upper cervical chiropractor I broke down and cried. Apart from the adjustment being overwhelmingly gentle, relief for the majority of symptoms I was experiencing was immediate. Others disappeared over a slightly longer period. Once I found out about this and realized just how much sense it made I started sending patients to my upper cervical chiropractor, almost a 2 hour drive away.
Not surprisingly, as those like us close to upper cervical doctors have come to know, these patients were also getting relief and reversing conditions they’d had for years. Many children also responded magnificently. Seeing children benefit was the catalyst for my life changing decision. I resigned from Microsoft and my career in IT which had spanned decades and began researching, reading, and meeting with medical doctors & other professionals to find out more about the upper cervical phenomenon and of course upper cervical chiropractic. I am now a patient advocate of upper cervical chiropractic.”
Julie Horton: “There was such a jolt to my system after my first correction. It really was like a switch was flipped on after being off for so many years. The severe vertigo attacks stopped! Up until this point I was having attacks every day, sometimes multiple times a day. It was a miracle. A few months later my heart rate started dropping down to a more normal beat. That was really weird because I was so used to feeling like I was shot out of cannon at all times, like my heart was always ahead of my body. The new heart rate was a great feeling, but it took awhile to acclimate because feeling “normal” was not something I was used to. I would think “Is this how everyone else feels? I feel so relaxed! I hope I don’t become lazy!”
My condition has stabilized and is continuing to improve. I’m back to work, doing activities that I used to do and working out again, though I’m not completely healed. My upper cervical spine was in such a compromised state for years that it will take some time to restore proper body function and be “normal” again.
I won’t lie; there have been many challenges along the way as my body began to adjust to what normal should be. I’m a work in progress. And I go through patterns of not holding my corrections as well at times. As I challenge myself in new ways, my body has to figure out how to adjust to what I’m asking it to do. I’ve had a few vertigo spells since my first correction, but just a handful, and they’re not as severe as they used to be. I know that it will take time to be out of the woods, but I’m confident that I will get there with the help of Upper Cervical care.”
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