April 22, 2024 Puzzle Piece
Central Integration Can Help Chronic Pain and Unexplained Dysfunction
I
am repeatedly asked to evaluate and treat patients that have not
responded to Chiropractic or Medical Care. Some have seen as many as 4
MD’s, including Orthopods and Neurologists, 2 DCs with multiple
testing’s, imaging, medications, and injections. These cases and their
resistance made me look and relook at Central Integration and combine
many tools and techniques from our past to blend all of them to
accomplish marked improvement. We balance all 5 Factors of Central
Integration with The Color Chart for the Eyes, the Tuning Forks to
balance the Ears Hearing and Ears Vibration, the Narrow Fork of the
Adjustor/ArthroStim from C2 to L5 for the Post Mechanical Facets of the
Vertebra and the Wide Fork for the Associated Points from C2 to L5 along
the Bladder Meridian for all the Muscle Spindles. We also test and
treat any of the 12 cranial nerves that test weak.
After 80% improvement on one case after just one treatment, the husband,
having traveled 3 hours to see us, said, “why don’t you teach other
doctors these techniques so people can get help everywhere”. The
statement was a compliment but disappointed me. I explained I gave up a
very happy life and an extremely productive practice almost 20 years ago
to teach full time. He then said why don’t the doctors do what you
teach?
All of us take technique classes throughout our practices and then
personalize them to our practices and personalities. The problem is many
who have seen, have not done. Those that follow the “Six Steps”
accurately get incredible results and prosper. I am asking all who have
been exposed to these techniques and philosophies to dedicate
themselves to follow the protocol and give the patients what they
deserve in health and wellness and what the doctors deserve in a very
effective and results achieving system of evaluation and treatment.
Central Integration encompassed into the “Six Steps”: The human
body is basically a receptor-based organism. The basal ganglion,
cerebellum, thalamus, and even the cortex, are receptor sensitive. The
brain only knows the frequency of firing. 70% of the brain’s function is
inhibitory. Incorrect or insufficient information (sensory input)
yields aberrant function. The central integrated state is the correct
balance of inhibitory postsynaptic potentials and the excitatory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs & EPSPs). Therefore, a neuron rests or sits if at a (neutral) central integrated state simply processing the signals of excitement and inhibition in this balanced condition.
The
central integrated state is changed and improved by balancing the
excitatory and inhibition potentials, which is often accomplished by
increasing afferent or sensory input, with care and a whole person
approach.
The joint mechanoreceptors of the spine are tonic receptors that fire
continuously due to the constant presence of gravity. An example of
other tonic receptors are pain receptors, the joint capsule, muscle spindles and the Ruffini corpuscle. The Bulbous corpuscle or Ruffini ending or Ruffini corpuscle is
a slowly adapting mechanoreceptor found in the subcutaneous tissue of
humans. It is named after Angelo Ruffini. Dr Marc Harris’s subcutaneous
D5W treatment may help balance this Ruffini corpuscle.
These joint mechanoreceptors of the spine and the muscle spindles, along
with other tonic receptors send the greatest amount of information to
the brain. To have health and wellness and not manifest pain and/or
dysfunction, one must have balanced spinal and muscle information in
excitement and inhibition.
The information from the joint mechanoreceptors goes through the
cerebellum without known communication with it, straight to the
thalamus. The muscle spindles fire directly into the cerebellum and then
into the thalamus. This integration system also receives information
from sight, sound, and the labyrinthine ear. The Thalamus then sends the
information to the new (neo) cortex. The neocortex then fires or sends
information to the brain stem, through the hypothalamus. Look at the pictures included in this article.
The
brain stem controls all the vital functions that keep us alive, such as
heart rate/blood flow, breathing, digestion, and hormone regulation. It
also controls central integration functions such as balance and control
of the involuntary muscles of the neck and back. In addition, it the
brain stem has parasympathetic function to inhibit the sympathetic
nervous system.
To emphasize, the greatest quantum of information the body receives to
keep us healthy and out of pain comes from the muscle spindles, the
spinal joint mechanoreceptors, other tonic receptors, eyes and ears in
hearing and vibration. It blends and integrates this information even
with smell to keep us with optimal health and wellness. To balance the
spine and muscle spindles is paramount to wellness, being pain free and
having your chronic and potentially hopeless patients respond. The
eyes/ears need to see/hear and send the same message the muscle
spindles, joint capsules and spinal facets sense and send to the brain
and brain stem etc.
Tandem treatment of the midline structures, eyes and ears help
facilitate a central integrative state and optimal wellness. Therefore,
we use the eyes (Color Chart - Chakra Balance), the brain stem including
the cranial nerves, along with integrating what the ears
are hearing and feeling in vibration (using the tuning forks). The
midline structures relate to the paleo cortex (old brain), which is a
part of the limbic system (emotional center). Therefore, emotional
stress is being addressed at the same time and treatment expansion is
accomplished by using the book FEELINGS BURIED ALIVE NEVER DIE. Smell may also need to be added to the correction.
Lack of proper body movement, at individual segmental levels and
whole-body movement causes faulty neurophysiology. We know the brain has
great control over the body and movement. What I think we have
undervalued is the control the body has over the brain when fixation or
subluxation yields faulty motion, nerve compression or nerve entrapment.
This results in a lack of proper joint movement and inaccurate
mechanoreception, yielding imbalance and a non-central integrative
state. We also treat fascial restriction in this equation with the
percussor. The acupuncture system is imbedded in the fascia and the
fascia is involved with all the nervous systems. The fascia surrounds
and envelopes the brain, spinal cord, all of the nervous systems and all
of the organs. Robert Fulford, DO, taught the fascia superseded the
nervous systems and integrated them together.
If the person becomes tight, in spasms and/or imbalanced in any area,
they lose range of motion in that area which affects all other areas of
the body. For example, if they lose motion of the anterior-posterior
movement of cervical vertebrae, the IPSPs (inhibitory) overrides the
EPSPs (excitatory) and pain and dysfunction occur.
References
Neuromuscular Therapy Update, Vol. V/Issue 2, (1994) pp. 14-17
This is one of the concepts we are teaching in our Seminars that can make remarkable improvements in Health and Wellness.
Yours in Health and Wellness,
John W Brimhall, DC, BA, BS, FIAMA, DIBAK, Formulator, Patent Holder
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