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This is the first of four articles detailing how chiropractors use the CBP Spine Model to define what it means to have an ideal spine. If you’ve experienced any kind of neck, shoulder, or head pain, we’ll delve into what’s causing it. 

In the CBP model, also known as the Harrison Spinal Model, the side view of vertebrae moves along a geometric path from the first neck vertebra to the bottom of the lower back. The evidence-based model allows chiropractors to make customized patient treatments.

The CBP model details both ideal and average geometric shapes for the curves of the spine from the side. Chiropractors use the model to identify pain subjects versus non-pain subjects with spinal x-ray shapes.

For ideal spinal shapes, the neck or cervical spine should have a geometric shape of a “piece of a circle.” The rib cage or thoracic spine should have a geometric shape of an oval-elliptical shape. The low back or lumbar spine should also have an oval-elliptical shape.

Click here to view more examples of the CBP spinal model.