11/16/2025
🧠 Your cervical curve changes more than posture — it changes your brain!
Researchers took 80 young adults with forward head posture and reduced cervical lordosis (yep, the “text neck” look) — but no pain — and tested whether restoring that curve could literally improve how their nervous systems communicate.
📊 The Key Findings
✅ +13° increase in cervical lordosis (vs no change in controls)
✅ Improved conduction time (N13–N20 latency) — their brains processed sensory input faster
✅ Higher amplitude nerve responses in spinal, brainstem, and cortical regions (N13, P14, N20, P27, N30)
✅ Strong correlations between better posture and better neural communication (p < 0.005).
Translation? Fixing forward head posture didn’t just change their X-rays — it improved their neurophysiology.
💡 Why It Matters for Chiropractors
This is the first study to show that cervical curve correction alone — even in individuals without pain — can produce measurable changes in the nervous system.
It reinforces what we see every day:
Chiro care is not just improving posture — it is improving function.
This research provides scientific support for the notion that posture rehabilitation has a neurological impact, not just a mechanical benefit.
