Occipital Sideslip:
Nerve Shutdown at the Base of Your Skull
by Dr. Arlo Gordin
Asked if I had only one adjustment I could do, for its amazing often miraculous result, it would be correcting the Nerve Short Circuit (“Subluxation” is the word for that in Chiropractic) called Occipital Sideslip. The Occipital bone is the one at the base of your skull, the one that joins your skull to the topmost neck vertebra (The “Atlas” vertebra is the first bone at the top of your neck). It is often the first chiropractic correction that is needed to “unlock” the problems that you have with your health. It is the key often to headache and migraines, low back or hip/leg pain including disc injuries and sciatic nerve pain, to brain fog or dizziness/vertigo. To auto-immune conditions of all kinds, people with pains and inflammations, with many different named diagnoses.
It causes slowing/stopping adequate blood flow to your brain, which is the organ that runs your nerve system, and is “in charge” of most things in your body. Its slight mislocation causes a pinching/pressure to your “brain stem”, the very base of your brain, and that affects information carried by nerve flows all the way down your spinal column, from your head to the tips of your toes.
The fact that Occipital Sideslip very frequently reduces the arterial blood flow supplying your brain causes a wide range of diagnoses, that include Depression, Anxiety and PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder). Your brain likes and NEEDS its blood supply! Most of my patients who came to me on anti-depressant psychiatric drugs have this problem as an important part of their malfunctions. The right nutritional support and fixing this has resulted in astounding turnarounds for many of these patients.
Some people do feel the pain or pressure at the neck below the skull, some don’t. But the effects of that all-too-common subluxation are suffered by millions. Most who have it, haven’t a clue what it is or what mayhem it’s causing. When it is “out” and off to either side, your health is severely impacted. The “brain-stem” pressure can affect many essential life processes including breathing and digestion. Because the brain is “married” to your glands, this problem can aggravate and be associated with gland problems, from adrenal, to thyroid, to sex/reproductive.
Even the test to find it tells you how far ranging this nerve short circuit causes damaging effects. The first test for it is to check the strength of both strong leg/hip muscles on both your right and left sides, the Hip and the Psoas. When both sides, both left and right have leg strengths that are nearly absent and often incredibly weak, that is the test that reveals you have an Occipital Sideslip.
The reason that my patient sometimes doesn’t know their leg muscles are so weak, is because it “snuck up on them” and they have gotten very used to operating their body with such weak legs. When your occiput is put back into its exact place, your leg strengths change instantly to much stronger. And many times the symptoms most troubling you start to feel better right at that moment!
This week I had two patients, one who flew in from out of state to see me, who had crippling headache pain. The New Yorker had migraines ruining most every day. The other had an ongoing crippling headache that another chiropractor had tried adjusting, and gotten nowhere. Both were instantly improved when their Occipital Sideslip was adjusted correctly. Headache not there! No migraine! Another first defender who was disabled and off the force due to vertigo/severe dizziness, was fixed and quickly qualified to get back to work!
The day I first wrote this, I corrected the occipital sideslip on a woman whose nerve system had collapsed in toxic shock from her cancer therapies. For months she had remained unable to function or even stand on her feet. Her arms and hands were paralyzed. It took 2 people to get her on a table to be examined and adjusted by me; her legs couldn’t hold her. They had no strength. After adjusting her Occipital bone, she reported instantly all this: She could make a fist for the first time, and use her hands and fingers, she could raise up her arms, she had more strength. She had been wheeled in on a wheelchair, unable to use her arms, but pushed the button on the elevator on the way out! And the second she was adjusted she could hold her legs off the table under her own power, something that she couldn’t do at all a moment before. And her double vision went instantly back to normal too! Although she had for a long time been partially paralyzed and disabled, we had her dancing Zumba in only 2 months!
I have corrected so many Side-slipped Occipital Bones and brought relief from terrible low back pain, and from other pains. Fibromyalgias and multiple pain/inflammation situations respond to this, and without it they don’t! This is important to be checked on every new patient I see, and if present, corrected. Whether their problem is with pain, headache, complex neurological problems, knees, spine, disc pathologies, digestion, eyes, ears or thyroid gland, or many more. It needs to be checked on everyone!
The dramatic instant change in leg power wows most every patient that has this needed correction made. It is like Magic…just in this case the Magic that is witnessed is Real.
Anyone who wants complete nerve health and freedom from the effects of Stress on their health needs this checked out. They need to see if this in a key element underlying their own health problems. I have come to expect Nerve Health, and Stress-combatting Health Miracles from this adjustment. If I’ve sent this to you as part of your Report of Exam Results, know that this nerve-wrecking problem was found on you when we examined you. If you haven’t been checked for this nerve issue, best you do!