A multitude of patients have entered the office this month with marked pain in the neck  and or low back.  The symptoms were lack of range of motion, radiating pain into arms, deep boring pain next to the shoulder blades, nothing would make the pain go away. 

We discovered with our testing procedures that all of these patients were sleeping with the head of their bed against an outside wall.  On nights when the temperature drops significantly, the cold air will penetrate the walls.

Sleeping in this environment over-stimulates the 5th cranial nerve. It dissociates and causes a subluxation of the fourth and fifth vertebra.  The end result is marked inability to move the neck, sever spasm of the muscles and pain into the arm, mid back and often low back.

We find that the cold laser sensory integration technique works very well in these acute inflammed conditions.  Within two to three treatments, the patients recover to a full range of motion and pain free status.

If you have sever spinal degenrative states, this cold exposure can really aggrevate your spine. Multiple treatments may be needed if this is your case.

Put a blanket on the head board of your bed or on the wall at the head of the bed or side of bed which ever pertains to your sleeping arrangement and the over-stimulation will be stopped.