I always like these cases that resolve really, really quickly. And this was definitely one of them.
This man in his 50’s had been seeing chiropractors for years, but still had numb and painful hands every night. It was so bad that it woke him up each and every night.
The chiropractors were adjusting his mid-back and neck vertebrae, which would temporarily help [hours to a few days at most], but it never resolved. The pain would return.
I took a different approach. I did some testing and figured out the real problem was the COVERING of the bones in his upper back.
This covering is called the periosteum and is rich in nerves. When there is trauma or stress on the body, the nervous system reacts, often creating tension in muscles.
This tension creates stress on the periosteum because the muscles spasm, which pulls on the tendon, which is connected to the periosteum.
So….I had to help his body remove the scar tissue that was on the upper back bones. Relatively painless and took just a few minutes.
He came back the next week and was completely out of pain and had no numbness. This has continued and he is still pain free with zero numbness.
You see, in this case it wasn’t the movement or position of the bones at all. It was how the nervous system reacted to some type of trauma in his past. Adjusting the bones over and over again would have continued to get him nowhere.