Blair Technique

Blair upper cervical care is a unique system of finding and correcting nerve interference (subluxation) in the upper neck area. Precise x-rays are taken to custom tailor the neck adjustment to your individual spinal anatomy and condition. This is important as we all look as different on the inside as the outside. This "blue print" of your neck allows the Blair doctor to deliver the adjustment that is exactly what your body needs. All nerve messages between the brain and body must pass through the upper cervical area. The nervous system controls and regulates all parts and functions in the body. When there is nerve interference (subluxation) your body loses the ability to properly self regulate and heal itself. The result can be pain and illness. Blair Upper Cervical Care is often the key to people regaining and maintaining good health.

1. What to expect when you visit a Blair doctor
Your first visit will include a consultation, examination and precise Blair x-rays of the neck. The goal of your Blair doctor is for your neck correction to hold as long as possible as that will allow you to see results quickly and heal as fast as possible. On subsequent visits you may or may not need an upper cervical correction (adjustment). The Blair doctor is able to determine when a correction is needed by performing leg checks, range of motion and a neck scan with a heat reading instrument.

2. X-ray and the Blair X-ray Headclamp
Precise x-rays are the hallmark of the Blair Upper Cervical Technique. The x-rays allow the Blair doctor to analyze how your C1 or C2 vertebra has misaligned and develop a precise upper cervical correction customized to your neck. The Blair head clamp allows the doctor to take precision x-rays down joint angles unique to each person to ascertain the direction your atlas has misaligned, thereby allowing the doctor to make a precise neck correction with holding value.

3. Themography
All Blair upper cervical offices use heat reading instruments or a thermography. This heat scan of the neck area is one of the objective tests that are utilized by an Upper Cervical Blair doctor to determine whether you need an adjustment or not.

4. Leg Checks
These are objective tests that help the doctor determine two things. If you need an adjustment or not and at what vertebral level the adjustment needs to be made. The Leg Checks are used in conjunction with the Heat Scan allowing the doctor to know when a Blair Upper Cervical adjustment is needed.

5. The Blair Adjustment on a Side Posture Table
All Blair Upper Cervical Adjustments are made on a side posture table (named because the patient lies on their side). This table is low to the ground and allows the doctor to have a biomechanical advantage in making these PRECISE corrections. The adjustment is quick and gentle. The neck is never twisted or manipulated.

6. Rest Area
After a specific Blair Upper Cervical correction the patient rests in a quiet room for 10-20 minutes. The rest allows the body to re-gain control of the position of the corrected vertebra. This is ESSENTIAL to help maintain the upper cervical correction.