I notice when I treat how the body's most common initial response is to orient to muscular fascial reorganisation. Then after a number of adjustments, there is a shift towards a visceral autonomic reorganisation. This is a more physiological change that eventually...
Read more...The central nervous system is the biggest cluster of neurons in the body. There’s a billion neurons in the spinal chord and 100 billion in the brain. For our size as a species that’s an incredible amount of neurons and we have...
Read more...I recently came across Jerry Hesch writing on alignment and treatment of the sacrum. He makes a convincing case for the most common sacral misalignments being torsion on one of the two oblique axis as shown below. The graphic is mine (I...
Read more...'Recent reports have emerged suggesting that multiple sclerosis (MS) may be due to abnormal venous outflow from the central nervous system, termed chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI).' Lazzaro M.A. et al (2011)http://www.frontiersin.org/Endovascular_and_Interventional_Neurology/10.3389/fneur.2011.00044/full This is a very exciting article on the how venous...
Read more...Abstract: 'The traditional model of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) hydrodynamics is being increasingly challenged in view of recent scientific evidences. The established model presumes that CSF is primarily produced in the choroid plexuses (CP), then flows from the ventricles to the subarachnoid spaces,...
Read more...Just came across the following Cochrane review on TMJ disorders (TMD) (Luther et al 2010). Cochrane reviews are the gold standard in evidence based medicine, they do meta-analysis of all the available data. Ben Goldacre (2008), author of Bad Science, pays a...
Read more...Here's one of my favourite webpages on the internet. When im feeling confused by life i just click on the link and it always makes me feel better - puts things in perspective. The page looks at a huge variety of objects...
Read more...Here’s some interesting observations of our embryological development that might explain some of the phenomena felt by BCST practitioners. The first midlines of the body coalesce from the meeting of the three embryonic fluid spaces (chorion, yolk sac and amnion). Three germ...
Read more...This is a great story of how extreme the body can be in prioritising threat. Pain has a geography in the body. Suffering is a bigger category and existential? This is tricky territory, hence the question mark.1My view is that in pain there...
Read more...All perceptual fields exist at the same time. They are equipresent and part of the fabric of reality. However, the nature of our sensory system is to be more interested in particular perceptual fields over others. Overall there’s a common relationship to...
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