Does your loved one suffer from

Frequent COLDS or FLU?
STOMACH ACHE?
PAIN in the CHEST or UPPER BACK?
ASTHMA? DIABETES? STRESS?

   With home chiropractic you can nurture and stimulate the body's wonderful, innate healing powers -- in under 5 gentle minutes.
    The mid and upper back area tightenes up when we have been sitting too long doing detailed hand work, writing, sewing, typing, or driving. Large-breasted women often suffer from chronic subluxations (What is a subluxation? CLICK HERE) in the mid and upper back. Twisting falls, accidents and over-exertion can subluxate this area.
    RESULT: pain, numbness, burning, cramping and disease wherever these spinal nerves go.
    The spinal nerves of the mid and upper back are the root of health and disease for several major organs. Adjusting between the shoulder blades opens the lungs -- after being adjusted here people often exclaim, “I can breathe!” The liver, gall bladder and stomach rely on these vital communication lines. In fact, the vertebra just above a woman's bra strap, (T6, the sixth thoracic,) has been referred to as “the center place” by many chiropractors, including D. D. Palmer, the founder of chiropractic. He referred to the twelfth thoracic as the “second center place,” and I had one of the most respected chiropractors in North America advise me, “When in doubt, adjust T12.”

Home Chiropractic Adjustments for the Mid-Back

After you have listened to your heart and mind,
and know where you should adjust

A GENTLE TURN-AROUND
Here is another safe home chiropractic technique for the mid and upper back. You may use this technique instead of, or in addition to the previous method.

1. Have your loved one lie prone, on a FIRM surface. Beds and couches are too soft. A cushion under the forehead is comfortable.
2. Stand or kneel beside her, facing directly across the loved one's body.
3. Place your right hand next to the spine, on the side of the body CLOSEST to you. Your fingers are pointing toward the head.
4. Place your left hand on the opposite side of the spine, just a trifle (1/2 inch) closer to the buttocks, with the fingers pointing toward the buttocks. (NOTE: both of your thumbs are toward you -- more or less.)
5. Focus your healing intention and love on the joint and nerves under your hands. Bounce lightly and quickly STRAIGHT DOWN -- 3-5 times -- to free the "stuck", subluxated vertebrae. If you hear a slight "click" like a light switch turning on, that's good! If you hear nothing, that's OK, too.
6. You will naturally be rotating one vertebra to the right, and the one above or below it to the left. Do not try to twist. Bounce straight down.
7. Now move up 2 cm (1”) toward the head and bounce there. Then 2 cm below your first spot.
8. Finally, switch hands, as in the second photo, and do it all again.
9. If the first adjustment created a slight clockwise rotation, this one will be counter-clockwise. You many not need both. Listen to your intuition.
Total time: 20-30 seconds.

STOP: You have given a gentle home chiropractic adjustment. Leave it alone.

3. WHAT TO EXPECT:
Usually within 30-60 seconds your loved one will notice improved motion and less pain in the back. Warm, healing energy will flow more freely from brain to tissue cells, and better health will result.
Expect to adjust the same place several times if the underlying problem has existed for months or years. Every tissue can regenerate -- but real healing takes time.

WHAT IF A JOINT "CLICKS", "CRACKS" OR RELEASES?
Often a subluxated joint will release with a gentle click. This may happen during your adjustment, or several minutes afterward. Usually there will be a new, comfortable feeling of freedom at that spot. Occasionally, muscles may cramp briefly as the body guards itself against this new mobility. This is a good sign. Let your loved one lie or sit still for a minute or two and the muscles will relax again.
(In the rare event that the cramping lasts more than 5 minutes, look and listen again [INTUITIVE LISTENING] and adjust what you find even more gently. Rub any tight muscles for 15-20 seconds. You will find and relieve the problem. Have faith in yourself.)