(05-08-2017, 03:50 AM)DeepBreathing Wrote: What the paper indicates is that there is a bunch of nerves which pass through or around the atlas which control the muscles in the neck. If these nerves were being impinged then it's conceivable they are not properly maintaining the tone of the neck muscles - this could perhaps be the source of the problem.
This is what I'd suspect...to get any vertebrae misaligned enough to obstruct directly probably means a broken neck and far worse health impacts.
That said, it doesn't take much impingement to cause a disruption.... look at how much a "krick in the neck" can do to how we sit, stand, sleep and walk. I would not be surprised in the slightest to find that a subluxation that high up could interfere with some of the involuntary muscle control and contribute to higher AHI.