NORTH PALM BEACH, FL -- It's specific in determining exactly what the problem is in the neck, then the MCU is just as exact in treating it.
Andrew Quinn never realized how much reaching, stretching and bending went into a day of teaching calculus until he was in a serious car accident.
"Once you have neck problems you notice there are a lot of sudden movements reaching and grabbing."
What we know as whiplash was ruining Andrew's life.
"It felt like everything was heavy," Andrew explains. He saw doctor after doctor. "Nobody knew what to do...I know I was so weak at some point something was going to give,"--until now.
What MRI's and other tests on Andrew's neck didn't show was muscle weakness. "This is the missing link in neck pain."
What makes the MCU so unique is that it not only diagnoses the problem but it ensures that patients are treated accurately.
Chiropractor Marc Weinberg of North Palm Beach is the only doctor to have the Multi-cervical unit or MCU in Florida.
"You can isolate what muscle group is weak....Then, when you go to work it out you can get the patient to stay in that one position."
While the MCU is treating the patient, it also tracks strength as it works out the muscle groups that are weak.
"This isolates the muscle. It pulls them in the machine and works them out in the specific direction."
Andrew has exercised his neck in the MCU for the past several months. And now...
"It was as simple as building the neck back up. It relieves most of the problem."
After 22 years, this doctor has a new tool to treat patients with long term chronic neck pain.
"People who had conditions for a long period of time that have been to other therapies...and now with what we're doing, we can get them feeling better."
And a patient who is in class--without pain.
"I'm probably as strong or stronger than I was before the accident."
Most insurance covers MCU. Check with your doctor to see if it might be a treatment for you.
