Heart health is crucial to overall well-being, and understanding its connection with spinal health is vital. With heart disease being the leading cause of death in the United States, innovative approaches to prevention and treatment are essential. In some cases, Upper Cervical Care through the Blair Chiropractic technique has shown promise in improving blood circulation and helping with heart-related issues.
Heart health is crucial to overall well-being, and understanding its connection with spinal health is vital. With heart disease being the leading cause of death in the United States, innovative approaches to prevention and treatment are essential. In some cases, Upper Cervical Care through the Blair Chiropractic technique has shown promise in improving blood circulation and helping with heart-related issues.
I know from experience the neck can affect the heart.
I had a patient come in several years ago in January. Over the Christmas vacation, she had been to the emergency room a couple times for rapid heart beat. In fact, it was so rapid, the doctors thought it was impossible and tested it a few times because they couldn’t believe how fast her heart was beating.
She told me that her heart had actually been beating faster before she went to the emergency room and they measured it. She said her whole shirt was vibrating.
The typical intervention for this in a severe case was to go in and burn out some of the nerves in the heart. Now in my opinion, we probably need most of the parts that we have in our body. Occasionally something needs to be removed and medicine is great at doing that. But sometimes parts are removed when something else maybe was the problem.
I asked her to not get the surgery right away (a little risky on my part, right, we are dealing with the heart) and I found a problem and said that I thought it could be relevant. I ran my hand down her back and right in the top part of her back there was one bone that when I touched it, she almost screamed. It’s one of the bones where nerves actually come out and go to the heart and then back up. Now the heart gets its innervation from a couple different places, not just the spine. When that bone was that tender, I thought, okay this is probably a mechanical problem, not an organic one that needs to be dealt with with surgery.
I said, “Don’t do the surgery yet, give me a little while, I am going to adjust your neck and see what happens.” I adjusted her neck, the hot spot in her upper back went away, and her heart calmed down. Every once in a while it would come back and we’d check and sure enough, she was out of alignment again. So I know from experience- and I’ve had other patients after that (not as dramatic)- that the neck can affect the heart.
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