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Upper Cervical Spine Center

What causes shoulder and arm pain?

• Posted in Neck Pain on Oct 18, 2018

A lot of people come in here with severe, chronic shoulder and arm pain. Now, where do shoulder and arm pain come from? How come you have that tingling numbness sensations in the arm? Pain that goes down into the arm. Weakness possibly in the arm, even into the wrist and the hand.

Where does the pain between shoulder blades come from?

• Posted in Back Pain on Oct 08, 2018

We often have patients come to us with pain in the shoulder blades, between the shoulders, down the mid-back. Actually sometimes it's been so bad that they've gone to the emergency room thinking they're having a heart attack, because it can sometimes even radiate down into the arm, mimicking that of a heart attack. Oftentimes, they usually rule that out, give them a painkiller, muscle relaxers, which obviously mask it, never fix anything

The 5 little known reasons you should see a chiropractor

• Posted in Chiropractic on Oct 04, 2018

Hi I'm Doctor Ray Drury. And I want to talk to you about the five little known reasons why you should visit your chiropractor. Specifically and upper cervical chiropractor.

Can chiropractic help with pregnancy?

• Posted in Pregnancy on Sep 26, 2018

Hi, I'm Dr. Ray Drury and as a Chiropractor here in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the questions I get asked most frequently is can chiropractic help with pregnancy? Actually, my wife has been pregnant three times and I've had, oh I don't know, over a hundred patients, and probably several hundred patients.

Where do disc problems come from?

• Posted in Disk Problems, Health, Neck Pain, Posture on Sep 09, 2018

Where do disc problems come from? Well, I get asked that question as a chiropractor pretty much daily, and what happens is, your discs are actually designed to last you 150 years, but what happens is if your biomechanics gets altered, the stress points change so that your discs start to wear down prematurely.

Does Fibromyalgia Come From Neck Problems

• Posted in Chiropractic, Disk Problems, Fibromyalgia, Neck Pain on Aug 29, 2018

In my 25 years in practice, I would say fibromyalgia has probably been the condition that I have seen more of, at least more diagnosed cases of fibromyalgia than any other condition. It seems like medicine doesn't have much success at even treating the symptoms,

Ringing in ears causing white noise. Tinnitus chiropractic treatment.

• Posted in Ear, Hearing Loss, Tinnitus on Aug 22, 2018

I've had a lot of people ask me the question, can tinnitus come from neck injuries? Actually, from my experience, in 25 years, is almost every case I have seen, of tinnitus, has resulted from a neck injury. Sometimes weeks, months, most of the time years ago. In the case with tinnitus, dizziness, even loss of hearing

Natural Relief for Neck Pain

• Posted in Health, Neck Pain on Aug 03, 2018

It's amazing to me how many people come into our office with neck pain problems and they're skeptical about whether upper cervical care can actually help neck problems. The upper cervical spine is the neck, it's the top of the neck.

Spine Pain isn't exactly Spine Pain

• Posted in Pain, Posture, spine pain on Aug 03, 2018

In the United States, up to 85% of Americans will suffer from some episode of spine pain that will put them out of commission for three days, up to three weeks, and once you have one episode the likelihood of having more episodes go up exponentially.

Migraine relief with Upper Cervical Care

• Posted in Head Pain Disorder, Headache, Migraine Headaches, Migraines/Headaches on Jul 30, 2018

If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of Americans that have been searching for migraine relief, well, you're in the right place. Let's first talk about migraines. To get relief, a lot of times people are thinking you have to wait until the migraine comes on then you take some sort of a pill, potion, lotion, something that's going to then take the migraine away.