At each spinal level there is the potential for the vertebral subluxation to impact the autonomic portion of the spinal nerve. This regional dysautonomia confirms that a deepening process is occurring. The combination of a challenged adaptive HRV and altered postural energy distribution (EMG) leads to dysautonomia which is a sign of a deepening response to the subluxation. The patient is literally getting sick from the experience of unmanaged stress and lack of reorganizational controls.

Thermographic scanning detects patterns of unbalanced temperature regulation. This is a regional autonomic function mediated by the sympathetic motor nerves. These nerves control vasoconstriction and vasodilation and so variances in these actions can indicate acute and chronic dysautonomia. A pattern graph presents the symmetry of the paraspinal cutaneous temperatures. When they are locked in distortions, the lack of control within these spinal nerves can affect the organs and glands associated with the spinal-neural ganglia.