NPB is a comprehensive approach to
health. It will help answer many question that plague health
care practitioners. No matter what the problem, it seems to boil
down the fuel and activation. Somewhere there is a problem with
fuel uptake or delivery or too much or too little stimulation
(nerves firing too much or not enough).
How can we identify the difference? What if it is a fuel
problem? It could be not enough oxygen, nutrition or water. How
do you know? Which one is the most important? You're right,
oxygen. Now first consider uptake, then delivery. A patient will
remain sick if they aren’t breathing properly. If there isn’t
enough rib cage movement, diaphragm or weakness of the phrenic
nerve (no name a few examples). The patient isn’t getting enough
O2 plus they aren’t blowing off Co2 and other waste gasses. How
can we help this situation?
What if there is a problem with the GI system (reducing their
ability to absorb and assimilate nutrition)? How can we help
this? Nutritional supplements? Remember, they aren’t absorbing
or assimilating properly. Why and what can we do the help this
situation? What are the symptoms of this?
First we consider uptake then delivery. So, how is fuel
delivered? Through the blood stream. What affects the blood
flow? The Autonomic Nervous System. So how can we quickly test
and treat (balance) the ANS?
Most neurological and physiological functions
are subconscious (automatic) functions which are reflexive.
Organ Function is reflexive. Immune function is reflexive. All
tests, observe reflexive responses. All symptoms are reflexive.
All treatments elicit reflexive activity and responses. There
can be no change in symptoms without reflexive responses. NPB is
then a study of body reflexes.
There is no expensive equipment needed. The computer is your
brain and the body you are examining and treating. NPB is about
connecting the dots. It can help make sense of what we are
seeing and how the patient responds.
Functional neurology/physiology: This is observing and
identifying reactions which guides our diagnosis and treatments.
It is amazing how many people have subtle weakness in there
cranial nerves and aren’t aware of it. Like taste, for example.
We frequently find total inability to taste on one side of the
tongue. After proper treatment is applied, then taste returns.
This is one example of functional neurology/physiology.
Often, a disk that won’t heal may be due to a weakness of
certain muscles that are seldom, if ever, tested and identified.
How does one test and identify the small intrinsic muscles along
the spine? How will one strengthen them?
A weak intrinsic muscle can cause another one to spasm and
remain in spasm as it is programmed to take up the slack by
presetting (pre-contracting). If the supportive muscles along
the spine fire too much or too little, then excessive force is
applied to the joints and disc. Subluxations can cause this
muscle imbalance but the imbalance can continue after the
Subluxations involved are reduced. Now what? How can we stop
ongoing inhibition or muscle imbalance?
Any weak muscle can cause another to spasm by this same process
plus, a muscle usually fires and inhibits other muscles. A weak
can’t support the synergist or send appropriate inhibition to
its antagonists. Decreased inhibition can cause chronic muscle
spasm. Inability to support can cause chronic muscle weakness.
These are some examples of neurophysiology, we address the
muscle circuits.
Adjusting: Every DC should be open minded and interested in
learning additional approaches to reducing various Subluxations.
NPB increases treatment options by addressing various additional
treatment techniques. A DC may be unable to get the desired
results, but a slight change in application may be what is
necessary to make the difference.
Balancing Body Reflexes.
This is indeed an art and a very important component to
health THAT IS VIRTUALLY UNTOUCHED. Very little has been related
to physiology until now.
There are areas (points) on the surface of the body that in
some way correlates to internal organs and tissues. When these
areas are stimulated in the right manner it can influence organs
and the nervous system.
I believe it is possibly the most powerful approach to
health, I don't think there's any devices or pills that can
compare to this powerful approach to body function. We
will begin the journey (in Mod I) into the fascinating world of
testing and treating body reflexes.
