Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

How Adjustments Reconnect the Brain and Body After Chronic Neck Pain

15 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Jeff Langmaid explains how chronic neck pain disrupts sensorimotor integration between the brain and neck muscles, causing people to move more slowly, more cautiously, and with reduced range of motion as a protective response. He states that spinal adjustments can improve head movement time — allowing faster movement without loss of accuracy — indicating reconnection between brain and body after adjustments.

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What does this mean in practice? Well, when people come in with chronic neck pain, we all know this, they often develop altered sensory motor integration, altered patterns. Basically, their brain and neck muscles aren't talking to each other as smoothly as they should. And that's one of the reasons that you see people move slower. They're moving more cautiously and often with a pretty significant decrease in range of motion. Their body is basically protecting itself, even if it's subconscious. So after you get in there, with an adjustment, the head movement time can improve significantly, meaning that they could move faster without losing accuracy. I'll say that again, without losing accuracy, and that is a huge point.