Chiropractic & Central Afferent Inhibition: A Chiropractic Care Path & Mechanism for Chronic Pain, Tremors, Spatial and Inhibitory Distortion
Recent studies have shown that chronic pain harms the cortical areas unrelated to pain, long term pain alters the functional connectivity of cortical regions known to be active at rest.
MRI of back pain patients who perform a simple task showed that these patients had had decreased brain function and shows that there could be a link between the default mode network and cognitive and behavioral impairments
The default mode of brain function is the existence of a resting state in which the brain remained active in an organised matter. The default mode network is disrupted in Autism, Alzheimer's, depression, and ADHD.
Potential changes in the default mode network could be related to symptoms commonly exhibited by chronic pain patients like depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbances.
Studies show that there are significantly less deactivations in chronic back pain patients than healthy subjects in the prefrontal cortex, amygdala and posterior cingulate/ cuneate cortexes.
Patients exhibit increased pre-frontal cortex activity in relation to spontaneous pain, in addition to dorsolateral prefrontal cortex atrophy.
Therefore, the decreased deactivations described here may be related to the dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex /pre-frontal cortex mutual inhibitory interactions perturbed with time
Recent Chiropractic studies have found after several weeks of chiropractic care in chronic pain patients, found that they have an improvement in the gating of peripheral afferent input to the brain, improving cortical motor areas, and improving processing of motor programs.
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Chiropractic has moved online. We offer our online programs -STAND CORRECTED- To help you through the day. They contain health advice for your conditions, nutritional advice, and exercises for you to do at home or at the workplace to help you achieve your health goals. We understand that coming to the Chiropractic clinic may be costly and time-consuming. This way if you can't make it into the chiropractic office, you can do any of our 20+ online health programs at your leisure.
Enjoy and we hope they spark a little bit of joy and help you achieve your health goals. Each program contains - Information about the conditions - things to do and things to avoid - nutrition advice - all the stretches that are needed to help The following conditions are now available for online sessions
migraine
cervicogenic headaches
cervical facet neck pain
tension headaches
cervical radiculopathy (pins and needles in the arm originating from the neck)
shoulder impingement relief
thoracic outlet syndrome
frozen shoulder
rotator cuff
chronic lumbar (Low Back) disc pain
acute Lumbar(low back) disc pain
Lumbar facet pain
sciatica and piriformis syndrome
meniscus (knee pain)
Plantar fasciitis (Foot Pain)
Shin Splints
Tennis Elbow/Golfers elbow
Carpal tunnel Syndrome
Upper Crossed Syndrome( Poor Posture)
Lower Crossed Syndrome ( Poor Posture)
Dizziness-Vertigo
Arthritis
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TMJ (Jaw Pain)
References:
2. Haavik, H., Niazi, I. K., Holt, K., & Murphy, B. (2017). Effects of 12 Weeks of Chiropractic Care on Central Integration of Dual Somatosensory Input in Chronic Pain Patients: A Preliminary Study. Journal of manipulative and physiological therapeutics, 40(3), 127-138.
3. Restuccia, D., Valeriani, M., Barba, C., Le Pera, D., Bentivoglio, A., Albanese, A. & Tonali, P. (2003). Abnormal gating of somatosensory inputs in essential tremor. Clinical neurophysiology, 114(1), 120-129.
4. Baliki N., Geha P., Apkarian A., Chialvo D., (2008) Beyond Feeling: Chronic Pain Hurts the Brain, disrupting the Default-Mode Network Dynamics, Journal of Neurosciences 28(6) 1398-1403
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