Dear Dr Amir,

I have had numerous unexplainable health problems throughout my life and after reading your articles, I strongly suspect that the root cause of all this is in my jaws (I was also an orthodontic patient) and atlas. I've always felt that it was all linked to one cause, I just didn't know how to connect it all. Finding your writings has given me hope that perhaps my problems can be resolved after all, or at least to some extent.

I will take the symmetry questionnaire, but I would really like to ask you a question in addition to that. My neck has always been asymmetrical (probably caused during birth). I got my atlas adjusted by an ayurvedic practitioner in October and since then my TMD and neck (the vertebrae "popping" in and out) have worsened considerably. I'm afraid he might have misdiagnosed me and pushed it in the wrong direction.

Another practitioner (of the Atlantotec method: http://www.atlantotec.com/en/fundamentals/atlas-vertebra-subluxation-cervical-pain) had examined me as well and he said that my atlas was rotated in a different direction than most people's, something many methods such as the "Atlasprofilax" don't recognize. (He also said this was the cause Atlasprofilax helps many, but some get worse because all are treated the same, regardless of how the atlas is misplaced.

He also told me to get a CT scan to exclude any possibility of damage between C1 and C2.) This Atlantotec practitioner seemed more knowledgeable in this, but I anyways chose to go to the ayurvedic doctor because he explained his method in more detail and it was supposed to be less forceful (the adjustment is done with the patient lying down which takes the pressure of the weight of the head off the atlas and the procedure is done using hands only. I thought this method was more gentle but since it is done with one quick push on the atlas, it can probably go just as wrong as any other). At least it hasn't gone well for me.

I think I need to do something soon, as it is getting worse and worse, but as I see it, the Atlantotec practitioner only knows about the atlas and nothing else in connection to that, and I'm sure my problem concerns the jaws as well. Does the Atlasbalance method recognize different rotations of the atlas? Do you take new patients?
KT Slovenia
Comment: (September 2015)
Yes, we do take new patients. Experience over the last 9 years since I learnt about the atlas asymmetry and about the Atlasprofilax/Atlantotec methods it is my concerted opinion that the Atlas becomes asymmetric as a consequence of Jaw asymmetry. Correcting the jaw corrects the Atlas 90% of the time. Correcting just the Atlas does not correct the jaws and so any correction of the Atlas soon goes wrong again. The last time I corrected someones Atlas was 6 months ago.

Update January 2021: I have not had to correct any ones Atlas for many years now. They all correct themselves with the correct orthodontic intervention!
Revised January 2021
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