"When the brainstem is functioning at 100%, it can heal any disease known to man" -Harvard Med School
02/23/2026
“I Didn’t Realize How Bad I Felt… Until I Felt Better”
I hear this all the time. I have experienced this personally.
We adapt to dysfunction so well that “normal” becomes whatever we’ve settled for. When the upper cervical spine is corrected, the body gets to experience actual normal again - and people suddenly realize how far they drifted without noticing.
Your baseline can be better than you think.
02/20/2026
Decoding The Medtrix - by Dr. Chad! - sold its first copy yesterday!
Books are currently available at the office.
We'll update next week with online purchasing options.
02/17/2026
"Compulsion is the worst method of trying to secure cooperation. Education is best means, although much slower."
Great philosophical microcosm of healthcare and many other hot-button topics in modern society.
Something to sit with.
02/12/2026
The biggest shift I want people to embrace is this:
Health is not the absence of symptoms.
Health is the presence of function.
Upper Cervical Care doesn’t chase symptoms - it restores function.
And restored function tends to create its own miracles.
02/10/2026
After years of writing and refining, my book - Decoding the Medtrix: An Atlas to Solving America's Healthcare Problem - is officially live.
More information coming soon.
02/05/2026
If you’ve been struggling for years, it’s easy to assume nothing will change.
But the nervous system is unbelievably resilient - when it is not being interfered with, the body often responds faster than the mind can believe.
Progress isn’t always a straight line. It rarely is. But direction matters more than speed.
01/30/2026
A question to consider for gauging your overall mental/emotional health right now: what did you do during the recent snow days if work, school, and other usual responsibilities were not an option?
How did you use that time?
Did you feel permission to slow down…or discomfort in the stillness?
Our default patterns when life pauses can reveal a lot about how safe our nervous system actually feels.
Just something to notice.
01/28/2026
An important health reminder: Symptoms Aren’t Random
Your body is not attacking you. Your body is not failing you. Your body is signaling you.
Upper cervical misalignment creates a cascade of adaptations - muscles brace, posture shifts, nerves compensate, and eventually something gives.
Your symptoms might be the body’s SOS call.
Don’t drown it out. Decode it.
01/19/2026
I don’t “crack” the upper neck. I don’t need to.
The correction is precise, gentle, and intentional—because your brainstem deserves respect, not force.
It’s amazing what happens when you treat the most delicate part of the body with the delicacy it deserves.
People often say, “How can something so light make such a difference?”
Because clarity doesn’t require force; it requires accuracy.
01/15/2026
The biggest lie in modern healthcare is that healing comes from outside you.
It doesn’t.
Healing is an inside job.
Alignment simply takes the brakes off.
When the nervous system can communicate clearly, healing becomes less of a miracle and more of a biological certainty.
01/12/2026
For years I've said, "Healing doesn't happen in a bubble. You go through the process while mostly living your normal life. Ideally, we'd go straight from your first correction appointment to a retreat center where your only responsibility was restoration and health." Well, my colleague in the northeastern USA - borrowing from Dr. Palmer's vision in the mid-20th century - has created one. I'm putting this out there as a reminder to myself: we need one of these too.
We are located in the foothills of the North Cascade mountains on 88 acres of pristine forestland. We host yoga, meditation and personal healing retreats.
01/09/2026
All drugs treat effects, symptoms, and pathologies. There's a place for them in real, genuine healthcare. After all, there's a reason why people take drugs; they need help - something is wrong!
The key is to understand that they're taking drugs to adapt to abnormal conditions. If conditions were normal, they wouldn't take them.
Alignment restores normal conditions for the body so that it can adapt on its own, without the need for drugs to assist.
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Born in Greensboro and raised in Kernersville, Dr. Chad was no different than a lot of young kids in that he suffered numerous falls. He pretended to be Peter Pan, fell off of a chair, and let his chin break his fall. He ran around the house, slipped, and had his head meet the edge of the coffee table. Dozens of stitches and several sports related injuries later, he and his mom were involved in a car accident when he was 9 years old. He suffered from whiplash, but did not truly feel the effects of the crash until a few years later, when he went down on the soccer field clutching his back. At age 13, he was diagnosed with a slipped disc. Chiropractic helped get him back on the field.
Four years later, he was involved in a second car accident on I-40 in Greensboro. He totaled his car, but walked away without any serious concerns. However, in the years that followed, he developed chronic upper back, neck, and shoulder pain. By age 21, he was in pain all day, every day. The more he was on his feet, the pain grew less tolerable. He began having problems with his knee for the first time, he grew less and less mentally focused, and his digestive system became chronically irritated.
After graduating from North Carolina State University and moving to St. Louis, Missouri to attend chiropractic school, his symptoms intensified. It reached a point where general chiropractic just was not working for him anymore. He tried various medications. None of them worked. He tried physical therapy. It did not work, either. Frustrated, Chad was beginning to dislike his chosen profession.
The answer to his prayers came mid-way through his professional education when he was introduced to Upper Cervical Care. Despite years of general chiropractic care, it was a specific, gentle correction to his upper cervical spine that gave him his health back. Three weeks after his first correction, he felt the best he'd felt in over ten years. His shoulder, neck, and upper back pain subsided, his digestive system returned to normal, and he got his focus back. Naturally, his inclination was to spread the word to his friends and family back in North Carolina. He was disappointed to learn that no such doctors were based in the Triad. It became his goal to change that situation.
Since being under Upper Cervical Care, his chronic issues have become a thing of the past. He’s had the privilege of becoming an Upper Cervical Doctor so that he may bring this unique brand of health care to his hometown and surrounding areas. Since opening his office, patients have traveled from Asheboro, Mebane, Burlington, Reidsville, Cary, and southern Virginia to experience Upper Cervical Care.
Thanks to his own life changing experience with Upper Cervical, his passion is to educate people about a new paradigm in healthcare – one that focuses on the importance of having a normal functioning neurologic system rather than the symptoms that result from abnormal functioning.
“Your body was designed to be very dynamic, capable of overcoming almost anything. It doesn’t need much help to be well…just no interference to what it was intended to do.” - Dr. Chad