by Neil Bossenger | Mar 10, 2014 | Case of the month, Cases, Spinewave Bulletin, Symptoms
Muscles and joints of the neck can influence heart rate and blood pressure. Research has shown that a pathway exists between neck muscles and a part of the brainstem (image below) called the nucleus tractus solitarius1 (NTS). Postural alterations to the...
by Neil Bossenger | Jan 15, 2014 | Case of the month, Cases, Spinewave Bulletin, Symptoms
Resolution of life-long clumsiness in a 9-year old boy over 6 weeks. Proprioception is the ability of your brain to sense the relative position of your body parts in space, and the ability to move your body accurately without having to look at what you are doing....
by Neil Bossenger | Nov 1, 2013 | Case of the month, Cases, Spinewave Bulletin, Symptoms
16-year old male presents with acute dysautonomia following a fall from a horse. Dysautonomia is characterised by malfunction of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The ANS controls heart rate, temperature, digestion and blood pressure, and it can cause...
by Neil Bossenger | Oct 12, 2013 | Case of the month, Cases, Spinewave Bulletin, Symptoms
This is not a case of “chiropractic cures polio”. This is a historical perspective on disease and prevention. During the 1900s there was a global decline in death rates from all major infectious disease (typhoid, smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, whooping...
by Neil Bossenger | Sep 9, 2013 | Case of the month, Cases, Spinewave Bulletin, Symptoms
Sleep loss affects the stress systems in our bodies and is important because these systems enable us to deal with everyday challenges. The two stress systems are the autonomic nervous system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, as they both relate to the...
by Neil Bossenger | Aug 7, 2013 | Case of the month, Cases, Spinewave Bulletin, Symptoms
Frozen shoulder is common, yet poorly understood. For most people who get frozen shoulder, the onset is idiopathic – meaning of unknown cause. For any condition where the cause is unknown, or when an individual finds themselves just “waking up one...
