Neck pain has a way of taking over your entire day. It's not just the pain at the site — it's the headache that follows, the shoulder that tightens up in response, the inability to turn your head without bracing for it. Neck pain is rarely just neck pain. It is a cascade of structural, tissue, and neurological events that compound on each other when left unaddressed.

What Is Actually Happening When Your Neck Locks Up

The cervical spine — the seven vertebrae that make up your neck — is one of the most mechanically complex and vulnerable sections of the spine. It supports the full weight of your head, maintains an extraordinary range of motion, and houses the nerve roots that supply sensation and function to your arms, hands, and shoulders.

When cervical alignment is disrupted — by an auto injury, a sleeping position, prolonged desk work, or an injury — the resulting mechanical stress affects everything downstream. Nerve roots get compressed. Surrounding musculature guards and spasms. Inflammation moves into the soft tissue. And the neurological pain signals that develop can refer pain into the shoulders, arms, and hands — far from the actual site of the problem.

Why Chiropractic and Acupuncture Together Work

Chiropractic adjustment of the cervical spine restores proper alignment, reduces mechanical compression on the nerve roots, and removes the structural restriction driving the surrounding tissue response. Precise, targeted cervical adjustment is one of the most effective interventions available for acute and chronic neck pain.

Acupuncture addresses the tissue and neurological layers that chiropractic cannot fully reach alone. The inflammatory response in the surrounding musculature, the trigger points that have been activated, the nerve signaling patterns that have developed — acupuncture suppresses pain transmission pathways at the spinal level, increases circulation to the injured tissue, and interrupts the pain loops that keep the neck locked in protective guarding long after the initial injury.

Together they address neck pain at every level it is occurring. Most patients have only ever had access to one at a time. At RESET you get both in the same visit.

What RESET Treats

Dr. Rod Gaskell and Dr. Chad Gaskell treat the full spectrum of cervical conditions — acute neck pain, chronic neck pain, whiplash and auto injury, cervical disc herniation, tech neck and postural strain, nerve pain radiating into the arms and hands, and neck-related headaches and migraines.

With a combined 70 years of clinical experience, they know exactly what they are looking at — and they know when to refer.

Same-Day Neck Pain Treatment — No Appointment Needed

Walk in today. Same-day evaluation and treatment from specialists whose entire clinical formation has been aimed at exactly the problem you are presenting with. No referral. No waiting. No pressure.

RESET Walk-In Chiropractic and Acupuncture is located in Sioux City, Iowa — moving to 3230 Stone Park Blvd at Hamilton Boulevard on June 1st, four blocks from UnityPoint Health.