When I was 24 I went to a chiropractor for help with problems I was having with my sciatic nerve after the birth of my third child. He did full spinal x-rays and scheduled to meet me a week later to go over the findings and develop a treatment plan. When we met a week later, he said "It doesn't say in your chart when it was that you broke your neck." I said "Excuse me?" He then put up a side view x-ray of my neck that clearly showed that the bottom three vertabrae (C5-C7) in my neck were fused solid and also showed healed fracture marks. The C4 vertabra was poised on the back edge of the one below and the spinal cord was visible exiting the bottom and re-entering the bone beneath. I was shocked. He asked if I had ever been hit in the right side of my face really hard. The only accident I was ever in that might explain the injuries was a horse fall I had when I was NINE! I was bucked off at a dead run and landed on the right side of my face. Apparently I had a broken and/or dislocated neck for 13 years and never knew. Because of the way the one bone sits on the back edge of the other, it is still technically dislocated. Doctors have said that there is no medical reason I should be able to even breathe on my own, but since it stabilized itself, it would be dangerous to try and fix it.