Your Signal
Seventh Cervical Vertebra
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Also known as: C7 · seventh cervical vertebra · vertebra prominens · HWK7 · cervical vertebra 7 · prominent neck vertebra · neck knob
Your Body Is Speaking
You feel it when you lower your head — the bone that protrudes at the base of the neck, the most prominent vertebra in your entire spine. The seventh cervical vertebra is the threshold between head and body. It connects what you think with what you do. What you carry in your head with what your shoulders carry. It is the transition from the neck to the back — anatomically the last cervical vertebra before the thoracic spine begins.
When this vertebra hurts, when it is blocked, when problems appear in its area, that is more than an orthopedic issue. It is a signal that something is not right at the interface between your inner experience and your outer appearance. The seventh cervical vertebra sits exactly where you either straighten up or slump, where you show yourself or hide. Its pain asks a question that goes deeper than any X-ray.
Who are you — when nobody is watching?
Your signal is waiting
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