Why get your neck adjusted?

     As chiropractors we recommend a regular maintenance adjustment to all of our patients. Just like anything with lots of moving parts, the spine will begin to break down if it is not maintained. Poor spinal maintenance leads to conditions such as disc degeneration, osteoarthritis and spinal stenosis. These conditions are progressive and typically do not cause pain until they are very advanced. The neck is especially susceptible to these conditions for a variety of reasons. Below the neck the spine is surrounded by a much greater muscle and tissue mass. By having less surrounding tissue the neck gives us greater mobility. With a healthy spine we can flex and rotate the neck almost 90 degrees.  However, in order to give us greater mobility the neck sacrifices some of the stability we have in other areas of the spine. For this reason the neck is especially susceptible to subluxation or misalignment