Triad Upper Cervical Clinic

06/22/2026

Symptoms are not the enemy. They are the body’s attempt to get your attention.

You cannot drug the body into health if the system itself remains stressed.

The body heals best when interference is removed; not when symptoms are silenced.

06/18/2026

One of the most overlooked aspects of health is adaptability.

A patient recently shared this with me after experiencing a significant fall:

“I am a 62-year-old female that came to Dr. Chad a few years ago for wellness. I wanted to make sure I could maintain full mobility as I got older and continue playing with my grandchildren well into my 90s and beyond.

Last week I experienced a bad fall into a large hole. I was confident I had broken a bone or two.

Within 3 short days, there were no broken bones, no long-term effects, and I was completely healed.”

That’s the thing about health people often miss.

Sometimes the greatest sign of health isn’t avoiding stress or injury altogether…

It’s how well the body adapts when life inevitably happens.

Alignment doesn’t make someone invincible, but a body functioning well structurally and neurologically is often far more resilient than people realize.

06/11/2026

Think of your head like a camera sitting on a tripod. The camera is your skull. The tripod head is the top bone in your neck, which lets your head balance and move in all directions.

If the tripod head is centered, the camera sits level and everything works smoothly, but if the tripod head shifts slightly to one side, the camera doesn’t stay level anymore. To keep the picture straight, you’d naturally tilt the camera the opposite direction.

Your body does the exact same thing. If top bone in your neck shifts right, your head subtly tilts left. Your neck muscles tighten to stabilize things; your shoulders and spine start compensating underneath it; over time that constant compensation can create common problems such as pressure in the head or neck, fatigue or brain fog, muscle tension, and imbalance in the shoulders and hips.

None of that means something is “broken.” It just means the system has been working harder than it should to keep everything level.

06/08/2026

One of the three most common reasons why people initially seek Upper Cervical Care: Dizziness.

This is a nice visual guide to the simplicity of how head/neck alignment establishes balance/equilibrium in the first place, and the consequences of losing that alignment over time.

Understanding the Neck-Dizziness Connection and How Upper Cervical Chiropractic Helps Identify the Structural SourceDizziness is one of the most common reasons adults seek medical care, and it is also one of the most difficult to diagnose accurately. The sensation can mean many different things — ...

06/01/2026

People often ask, "Why don't you adjust people even if they still have symptoms?"

If you sleep on your arm wrong and it goes numb, then you move it, the pressure is gone immediately, but the feeling doesn’t come back instantly. It tingles and restores gradually. That’s your nervous system recalibrating.

Same idea here.

Alignment removes the stress on the system, but the body still has to heal.

Adjusting is only necessary when alignment needs to be restored. Once restored, the body just needs time to recalibrate.

05/29/2026

I'm very blessed to get to do what I do. This is a story I wanted to share that will explain why:

"I came to Triad Upper Cervical Clinic over a year ago because of numbness in my arms, food allergies with rashes, poor sleep quality and general pain. I have gone to Chiropractors in the past but not one who treats just the upper cervical part of the spine. After seeing Dr. McIntyre for over a year I am amazed at the results. I was skeptical at first because I have dealt with these issues for years with little relief. The adjustment is so gentle it is hard to believe it will have any impact the first time you experience it. I was pleasantly surprised. I no longer have numbness in my arms, which I have had for years. The food allergies and hives that accompany them, which I have had for 20 years, have disappeared. The pain and poor sleep quality have also disappeared. These results have held over all of these months which is astounding. With the healthcare industry offering so little in terms of treatment, other than drugs and surgery, it is encouraging to have this option which offers hope where there has been none. The impact of this particular part of the spine on overall health is so dramatic I will continue to see Dr. McIntyre whenever I have issues with my health."

05/26/2026

"The adjustment doesn't do the healing. It’s the spark that removes the interference so the body can heal itself the way God designed it to BETWEEN the visits. Less is more. 🧠" - Dr. Tony Ebal

05/22/2026

It’s interesting to watch the political conversations around healthcare. Some want to make the system more accessible. Some want to make it more efficient. Some want to lower costs. Some want to expand coverage.

Different approaches…often the same assumption: that the system itself is fundamentally sound.

What if that’s the wrong starting point? What if the issue isn’t how we manage the system, but how we understand health in the first place?

If our model is built around chasing symptoms instead of restoring function, then improving access to that model doesn’t create better HEALTH - it just creates more participation in it.

Real change will come NOT from choosing a side, but from asking a better question.