Adjusting the mid-back often relieves neck pain, but the speaker questions whether this actually works or just feels like it does. The effect seems consistent in practice, yet solid research backing it remains unclear.
But I am sure you've had this experience, just as I have had many times in practice, which is that you've adjusted somebody's thoracic spine, and all of a sudden their neck pain starts to feel better. Right. You're palpating the mid thoracics. You deliver the adjustment, they sit up and they go, my neck feels a lot better. We have all seen this happen in practice, where a thoracic adjustment resulted in neck pain relief. And it. It's basically a daily thing for most of us in practice. And it kind of feels like magic because you're adjusting one region, there's regional effects there, and then there's adjacent regional effects. Right. So the question starts to become, is that actually supported by strong research, or are we just seeing this in our clinical experience?
