What is the chiropractic technique NUCCA?
Our foundational technique, NUCCA, is a hand-crafted, custom alignment of your spine through a gentle, no twisting, cracking or popping adjustment. The power of NUCCA comes from the sustainability of the adjustment. We know that the true healing of the injury that occured by being misaligned can only come after you are aligned, not from the adjustment itself. Dr. Fryer has developed three phases of care based on the science of true human healing stages. Our goal is stability, not constant adjusting.
NUCCA is unique from most Chiropractic techniques in that it works with the body’s central balancing mechanisms that maintain a person’s ability to function in a gravity environment. It is the feedback to the brainstem from the eyes, ears and proprioception that allows the human body to maintain an upright posture under the constant stress of gravity. When this ability to balance the body is compromised a person’s frame breaks down and the spine locks into a stressed position. This shows up upon examination as a high and a low hip, rotated hips, and a spine that is locked into a contorted position.
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Most Chiropractors, upon encountering this patient, will focus on restoring motion to the individual segments of the spine that exhibit the most obvious effects from this postural and spinal distortion. This restoration of motion utilizing a manipulative thrust into the spine at the most affected segments is helpful in restoring spinal motion; however, it often fails to address the initial cause of the body imbalance and therefore may fail to produce lasting results and a correction to the problem.
The NUCCA technique practiced at The Balanced Spine enables body balance restoration as well as the correction of the distortions created by a disruption of the body’s central balancing mechanisms by correcting the positioning of the head and neck, eliminating the need for the body to break down into the stressed and locked position that has ensued.
It is typically accidents and injuries to the head and neck that result in this problem arising. Traumatic births, auto accidents, and slips and falls can all be the initial cause of body imbalance, and then repetitive stress, sedentary activity and further injury can exacerbate the body imbalance.
The most common symptoms that arise from body imbalance that respond well to NUCCA care are head, neck and jaw (TMJ) pain, migraines, upper, middle and lower back pain, and sciatica. Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue are less obvious, yet indicative results of body imbalance.