In chiropractic, quantum spinal mechanics (QSM3) is a progressive upper cervical chiropractic technique. Originally based on conventional upper cervical techniques, it has as its goal advancing the corrective technical approach into the twenty-first century. Reevaluating Palmer, Grostic, and Gregory’s starting Upper Cervical works and obtaining varying responses to those fundamental concepts helped one come about.
QSM3 focuses on accessing and releasing whole body tension patterns from pelvis to skull that holds the body is a misaligned, tense, and compressed condition to create/enhance balance, alignment, reduced muscle tension, enhanced movement, and healing. This most usually helps tense muscles and tissues causing discomfort and dysfunction in the body relax. Restoring the body to its orthogonal posture has always been the aim of Upper Cervical Progressive Chiropractics. The QSM¹ technique is a development of these outstanding chiropractic works.
It is known as quantum spinal mechanics for several different reasons. Quantum describes the character of the touch and procedure. We are touching and releasing tension patterns or blocked energy not bones or vertebrae, therefore there is little to no force in the adjustment most usually described as light touches or brushing near the top of the neck. Spinal mechanics is our ongoing applied method of understanding how the body gets misaligned (jammed, twisted, trapped, compressed) and how to release it. Third refers to our three-dimensional frame of view towards viewing the entire body. Doctors touch around the upper neck to make the adjustment, so it is known as upper cervical treatment.
QSM3 chiropractic doctors touch the upper neck for a very specific purpose: the form of the upper neck bones lets the skull be used as a steering wheel. We can then focus energy towards access and release routes in the body.
Whether felt (symptomatic) or not, a person with a nerve issue has a misaligned body that manifests itself in numerous ways.
- unequal or rotating hips
- uneven/rotated shoulders
- neck leaning
- head tilting
- uneven weight on the feet
- uneven muscle tension
- stress on many parts of the body
Healing Benefits of QSM3 Chiropractic
One exact and curative method of body balancing chiropractic is quantum spinal mechanics, or QSM3. This method specializes in working with the central balance processes of the body, therefore preserving a person’s capacity to operate effectively in a gravity environment.
Targeting joint symmetry, muscle balance, appropriate blood and oxygen flow to the brain, and cerebrospinal fluid flow. QSM3 chiropractic seeks to restore better healing, circulation, oxygenation, sleep, mood, immune system, and digestion could all follow from this. Many times, patients experience general quality of life improvement and relief from chronic pain disorders.
Usually, patients get long-term pain alleviation without having to crack their necks. Following QSM3 treatment, a broad spectrum of patients—including those with migraines, vertigo, fibromyalgia, neuropathic pain, disc herniation’s and chronic fatigue—have reported alleviation.
In the first treatment session, QSM3 chiropractic practitioners do a comprehensive biomechanical and neurological evaluation to create individualized treatment goals for each patient and generate unique care recommendations. From C0-C7, the spinal correction is given via a sequence of touches across both sides of the cervical spine. This approach guarantees structural and neurological integrity by offering particular, mild treatment free from twisting or popping the spine.
