Nasal Specific Chiropractic

Nasal Specific Technique or “Balloon Assisted Cranial Adjusting” is an adjusting technique that uses a “balloon” (finger cot) to adjust the joints in the nasal passage and cranium. It is done in an effort to improve the function or alignment of these joints and to stretch the nasal passage fibrotic tissue. Once the balloon is inserted, air is inflated into the balloon using a blood pressure bulb. The inflating balloon separates the joints in the nasal passage and stretches the tissue.

This technique has been used safely for at least five decades and has helped thousands of patients breathe more efficiently through their nasal passage. It can be used to treat a number of conditions including breathing disorders, sinus conditions, snoring, sleep apnea, migraines, head trauma, trigeminal neuralgia, facial paralysis, tinnitus, vertigo, TMJ, ear popping, and countless others.

To understand how this technique works, it is important to realize that the skull is not one solid bone. It is made up of 22 individual bones that actually move every time you inhale – or at least they are supposed to. Every time you inhale, the cranium expands – every time you exhale the cranium relaxes and contracts with the purpose of pumping Cerebral Spinal Fluid throughout the brain and spinal cord.

The primary bone of the skull is the Sphenoid bone. It is the central most bone of the cranial vault and it is the primary bone we are targeting in Nasal Specific technique. The sphenoid bone houses the pituitary gland and articulates with 12 other bones – especially important is where the Sphenoid articulates with the occiput in front of the spinal cord. Adjusting this joint through Nasal Specific adjustment can help stabilize the upper cervical spine and directly influence neurology because of its proximity to the brain stem.