by Neil Bossenger | Feb 25, 2013 | Research, Spinewave Bulletin
The gut has a nervous system of its own called the “enteric nervous system”. It has about as many neurons as the spinal cord and is metaphorically called “the brain of the gut”. The gut has developed powerful mechanisms to defend the body...
by Neil Bossenger | Oct 19, 2011 | Case of the month, Cases, Spinewave Bulletin, Symptoms
I have been experiencing a raft of unusual symptoms including sensations in my face, nausea, irritable bowel, tinnitus, a large numbers of floaters in my eyes and more recently, constant pins and needles in my feet and sometimes my hands. My husband is a chiropractor,...
by Neil Bossenger | Sep 14, 2011 | Case of the month, Cases, Spinewave Bulletin, Symptoms
I am now well toilet trained – Karen. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has in many instances become a hand-wave diagnosis due to its complex nature and myriad causes. IBS can have elements of constipation and diarrhoea, or alternation between the two. When I first...