The clinical application of network adjusting identifies five specific spinal subluxation patterns called PHASES. Using the network clinical analysis protocol the chiropractor determines which distinct phase pattern is present and ready to be adjusted. Because each successive phase is dependent on the preceeding one adjusting a lower phase has priority, because it may clear higher phases.

	Phase ONE Phase ONE involves a distortion of the tailbone (sacrum) or Base of the skull (Occiput). The sheath covering the brain and spinal cord attaches here and so phase one often 'underlies' other phases.
	Phase TWO Phase TWO involves a rotational or forward disturbance of the first or fifth cervical bone which manifests as a temporary correction of a leg length discrepency on head rotation.
	Phase THREE Phase three is a pelvic distortion invloving either the hip joint or the tailbone joint.
	Phase FOUR Phase FOUR is a subluxation involving the second bone in the neck which can distort in a myriad of different directions.
	Phase FIVE Phase FIVE is a double ended distortion involving either the tailbone and second neckbone, or coccyx and the fifth neckbone.