Triad Upper Cervical Clinic

02/12/2026

The biggest shift I want people to embrace is this:

Health is not the absence of symptoms.
Health is the presence of function.

Upper Cervical Care doesn’t chase symptoms - it restores function.
And restored function tends to create its own miracles.

02/10/2026

After years of writing and refining, my book - Decoding the Medtrix: An Atlas to Solving America's Healthcare Problem - is officially live.

More information coming soon.

02/05/2026

If you’ve been struggling for years, it’s easy to assume nothing will change.

But the nervous system is unbelievably resilient - when it is not being interfered with, the body often responds faster than the mind can believe.

Progress isn’t always a straight line. It rarely is. But direction matters more than speed.

01/30/2026

A question to consider for gauging your overall mental/emotional health right now: what did you do during the recent snow days if work, school, and other usual responsibilities were not an option?

How did you use that time?
Did you feel permission to slow down…or discomfort in the stillness?

Our default patterns when life pauses can reveal a lot about how safe our nervous system actually feels.

Just something to notice.

01/28/2026

An important health reminder: Symptoms Aren’t Random

Your body is not attacking you. Your body is not failing you. Your body is signaling you.

Upper cervical misalignment creates a cascade of adaptations - muscles brace, posture shifts, nerves compensate, and eventually something gives.

Your symptoms might be the body’s SOS call.
Don’t drown it out. Decode it.

01/19/2026

I don’t “crack” the upper neck. I don’t need to.

The correction is precise, gentle, and intentional—because your brainstem deserves respect, not force.

It’s amazing what happens when you treat the most delicate part of the body with the delicacy it deserves.

People often say, “How can something so light make such a difference?”
Because clarity doesn’t require force; it requires accuracy.

01/15/2026

The biggest lie in modern healthcare is that healing comes from outside you.

It doesn’t.

Healing is an inside job.
Alignment simply takes the brakes off.

When the nervous system can communicate clearly, healing becomes less of a miracle and more of a biological certainty.

01/12/2026

For years I've said, "Healing doesn't happen in a bubble. You go through the process while mostly living your normal life. Ideally, we'd go straight from your first correction appointment to a retreat center where your only responsibility was restoration and health." Well, my colleague in the northeastern USA - borrowing from Dr. Palmer's vision in the mid-20th century - has created one. I'm putting this out there as a reminder to myself: we need one of these too.

We are located in the foothills of the North Cascade mountains on 88 acres of pristine forestland. We host yoga, meditation and personal healing retreats.

01/09/2026

All drugs treat effects, symptoms, and pathologies. There's a place for them in real, genuine healthcare. After all, there's a reason why people take drugs; they need help - something is wrong!

The key is to understand that they're taking drugs to adapt to abnormal conditions. If conditions were normal, they wouldn't take them.

Alignment restores normal conditions for the body so that it can adapt on its own, without the need for drugs to assist.

01/05/2026

Sometimes people come into the office saying, “It wasn’t a big accident, just a little thing. But I haven’t felt the same since.”

Small injuries can create big detours in how your body compensates.
Especially at the top of the neck, where even millimeters matter.

Your body remembers the moment you stopped adapting normally. Upper Cervical Care is about giving it permission to adapt again.

12/30/2025

I like this perspective from Bill Esteb on New Year's goals. "Keep in mind that [numerical goals] are merely symptoms," he writes. "A convenient, yet unhelpful way of keeping score."

Interesting thought. I liked his follow-up even more: "Will setting goals that are 10% more ambitious give you more discipline? Will they give you greater focus, generosity, empathy, and compassion? Will they enhance your communication skills? Unlikely. Worse, should you happen to achieve your goals, you’ll likely feel compelled to repeat the process. Until you can’t. Then what?"

Being in a mode of new takes on old thought processes, I think the idea of goal setting as "a convenient substitute for having a high and noble purpose" is fascinating.

Esteb concludes, "When taking our last breath, we won’t be thinking about our biggest day or most profitable month. But rather the relationships we’ve made, the lives we’ve touched, and the legacy we’re leaving behind. Perhaps make those your goal?"

12/22/2025

Upper Cervical Care isn’t magic.
It isn’t alternative.
It’s physiology.

If the brainstem is irritated or compressed, the entire operating system runs glitchy. Muscles overreact. Blood flow changes. Digestion slows. Hormones fluctuate. Sleep gets fragmented.

Fix the OS and watch the apps start behaving.