Step 2: Stop Thinking Your Neck Is the Whole Story
You’ve probably had endless work done below your ears — adjustments, traction, exercises, maybe even surgery — with only partial or temporary relief.
There’s a reason for that: the majority of your nervous system’s command center sits inside a bony case that most treatments never touch.
If all the attention stays on the spine while the bones around your brain stay locked, you’re tuning the wires while the breaker box upstairs is still jammed.
About four-fifths of the system that runs your body is housed in and under those head bones, not just in the vertebrae down your back.
You see, when those cranial joints stop moving with each breath and heartbeat, fluid that should flow around your brain backs up and presses on the very tissues that control pain, balance, focus, hormones, breathing, and sleep.
So instead of doubling down on “more neck work,” start seeing your neck as only the lower part of the story.
The real leverage often sits a few inches higher, where small, precise changes in cranial motion can do what years of chasing the spine alone never could.