Applied Neurology
By applying the latest neuroscience to people in their everyday lives, it’s possible to improve the function of the Central Nervous System including the brain. This then reduces the threat the brain is under, which is often causing pain or dysfunction.
Can I see?
The most influential sensory system in our brain. If you cannot move your eyes well, focus, converge or diverge them, then your brain cannot correctly perceive the external world. This can also cause pain and movement disfunction.
Am I stable?
Vestibular system - responsible for posture, blood pressure, vision while moving, orientation due to gravity, direction and speed of movement and more. If your inner ear isn’t working correctly it can cause your brain to feel threatened and make you feel anxious and many other conditions.
Where am I?
Proprioception - If your brain isn’t getting appropriate signals from your joints, skin, muscles etc it won’t know where your are in space and will see that as a threat. That threat can then manifest as pain or movement issues.
All three systems are very integrated and if any one or more has an issue it causes a mismatch in the brain (think of motion sickness)
Any problems like this and the brain sees it as a threat, causing the brain to output incorrect signals which can then affect your ability to move properly.
How do we do it.
By undertaking some tests, for example visual, balance and range of motion we can establish if there are any areas that can be improved. Then we establish a baseline of the current state of your nervous system, try some small exercises which may help and re test. Once we have a number of successful exercises you take those home and work on them. You can then retrain the brain to make positive changes permanent.