NUCCA

Uh, Finnegan, my DMX, uh, shows ten millimeters over lateral flexion overhang on the right, eight millimeters on the left.

Do you think it's safe to try cervical chiropractic like NUCCA or Atlas orthogonal? You know, I can't answer that question.

I don't do that, that work, and I don't know your clinical history, so can't answer that one.

Uh, bless it.

And he did traditional Palmer package chiropractic, and he would come into my office to get adjusted.

And then we would start taking care of his family and, and then one day he just said, "You know, every time I'm here, it's busy," and he goes, "There's families." And, uh, he goes, "What would you think if we worked together?" And, and I said, "Great." I said, "But we're doing NUCCA.

That's what I, that's what I do." And he said, "Well, I've always been interested in upper cervical." And so he would come over on Tuesdays when he was done seeing patients, and we'd sit in back on the big Ubox and have, have our in- X-rays and instruments up.

And he came in one day and, you know, the NUCCA calculations, he's like, "Ah," he goes, "I had a dream last night of 3/32 and 1/16," and, and all this different stuff.

And so I taught him how to do it, so then he joined and, and he's been with me for the last 18 years.

And, and so that's been, that's been great.

That muscle is tight, and if we could help you out, how would you think?" Uh, someone that's, that's willing to be able to go out and tell people a story.

And then, and then someone that's, that's coachable.

I had, um, but I didn't know because I, my mom had, she had lots of experience with chiropractic care.

Um, and then she started seeing a NUCCA chiropractor in Calgary, and she didn't say it was chiropractic, but this guy, he was just full of life, full of vitality.

She loved him.

Um, and she was like, "Yeah, it's called NUCCA," but she didn't know what it was, and all, she's like, "All he does is just, like tap right here." And so I started going with her, and um, so at that time I didn't know it was chiropractic care, and this guy, he was just so vibrant, and we just loved him, and every time we saw him out and about, he'd shout to us from like all the way across a store or all the way across, like Fish Creek Park when we'd go walking, and he was just, he just had it.

He just had that something.

And um, so then looking back now, I'm like, oh my God, that was my first experience with chiropractic care, but I didn't know till I started learning at the school, and I was like, I have been under chiropractic care.

You know, I can't do orthodontics.

I mean, I can actually do upper cervical work, but it's different from NUCCA.

It's not, it's just, you know, it's muscle energy techniques or active release techniques.

I can combine the two for upper cervical.

And we typically find that both of those are pretty restricted, like there's not a lot of movement there.

And so one of the differences, so you mentioned NUCCA chiropractic.

So yeah, NUCCA is focused on that area as well.

They would take more of an alignment approach, whereas we take more of a mobility approach.

So we're using hands-on techniques to restore function.

Whereas a grade five is more of that high velocity, like the really quick snapping, popping techniques.

Yeah.

Cause I, cause NUCCA is kind of, it's very low intensity, but long duration, isn't it?

With me is Dr. Goldberg and he can help explain a little bit deeper into that.

Hey, I'm Dr. Norris Goldberg, and I'm the owner at Koru Chiropractic, really just across the street here from Centeno Schultz in Louisville, Colorado, and I am a NUCCA-certified chiropractor.

NUCCA stands for the National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association.

It's a very gentle, low-force, non-rotational adjustment that we do to the upper neck that helps a lot of patients with cervical spine problems.

Should she keep pushing?" Uh, no.

Um, we only recommend that someone continue with AO or NUCCA if they had a good result before the PICL.

We don't recommend that you just continue to, uh, really with any-- or to continue to use any treatment that causes a flare-up.

That would include AO or NUCCA.

So at the end of the day, if AO or NUCCA didn't work before and they're not working now, time to move on from AO or NUCCA.

Uh, "Mike, can you comment on the correlation between CCI and orthostatic hypotension?" Um, well, CCI can cause irritation of the vagus nerve, which can cause all sorts of problems with lots of different systems, including the heart and including how the blood vessels react.

Now, there are other nerves in that same area, the sympathetic nerves, et cetera, that can also have that effect.