This article

http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channels...m?storyid=17842

Claims that misalignment of Atlas part of the spine causes high blood pressure.

http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blo...-blood-pressure
http://nuccadickholtzsr.com/

A blind study claims to have found that simple manipulation can remove high blood pressure.

Has anyone tried this? Could breathing be someway linked to this alignment?

There is some research from the National Pain Foundation that shows that spinal nerve damage can cause hypertension because of chronic pain. Check their website. www.NationalPainFoundation.org

If a person is in chronic pain for some time, this will definately increase their blood pressure over time. I happen to be a multiple spinal nerve damage patient and my blood pressure ended up going sky high over the past 18 yrs of chronic pain from the nerve damage. BP ran 220/190 and was put on two meds. I would like to learn more about the Resperate to find out if I would have to use the device for the rest of my life or if it would lower my BP and then would I no longer need to continue to use it if I could continue to control my BP at a lower rate without the Resperate. Any body know the answer?

In medicine I've come to conclusion that often the doctors don't even know. There so many conditions, we all have unique problems. That aside, if your blood pressure was caused by pain, and you can get the cause of that pain under control, then your blood pressure may come down by itself. I've been reading that high blood pressure feeds on itself, causes the relaxing NO to stop production. Similarly low blood pressure helps relaxing NO production - so low blood pressure will also maintain itself. So, it really important to get your blood pressure down and hold it down for a while to help getting the NO production working probably again.

Both resperate and blood pressure medications are not cures. That is, they only help one control the condition. so one probably needs to stay on them for life to keep the blood pressure down. Until we understand what causes high blood pressure, and effect a cure, this is the best we can do.
I have a theory that if one can drive one's blood pressure lower than one needs, that when you come off the meds or resperate it won't instantly rebound to higher value, in short the system sort of resets at lower value (lower than it would off before you had it under control with meds and resperate). Perhaps this is because the smooth cells in the lining of the circulation system recover over time and can again relax as they should. If that is the case, then it may be possible with really good blood pressure management to actually lower your need over time for both meds and resperate treatment. As thomas edison once claimed, if you get something working for even short time, then you can probably make it work longer. ( he figured if he get a bulb to burn for 2 hours, then he could make it burn for a day before burning out -- of course he was right). So, if one can indeed lower your meds, then in principle there is no reason that given long enough, one couldn't effectively actually make it off meds and resperate. Of course by then we might all be really old and have other things to worry about.

Anyway, good luck ... and there is no harm in trying ... but really do try to get your blood pressure nice and low and controlled for a least a month before attempting reduction of meds or resperate times. Then, don't stop all of sudden, cut back a tiny bit see what happens. If everything holds or doesn't rise too much, you moved a tiny bit closer to your goal.

I'm on half the meds I started with, and doing reperate only 2/3 as much as when I started.
Holding my BP in normal range which is what I need to do.

I actually underwent an Atlas manipulation from a trained NUCCA chiropractor to see if it will help lower my BP after reading a similar article saying that misalignment of the cervical bone can cause high BP. My biggest complain with it was its very expensive. My initial consultation and xrays were around $300 dollars and each visit was $50. I felt better but did not do much as far as lowering my BP. I have better results with Resperate immediately the first time around. I stopped going to my chiro and will just focus on using Resperate.

I have a herniated disc and degenerate disc disease with a cyst on it, so i am in pain 24/7 and have been for 15 yrs now and 7 yrs ago my BP spiked like yours. I asked the doc if pain can do it and he said yes.