Harrisburg practitioner continues study on neurology to treat chronic health conditions

Last Updated on Monday, 10 October 2011 03:12 Written by Natural Health Team Monday, 10 October 2011 03:12

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The chiropractic profession has been established for well over one hundred years, and has blossomed in it’s education and scope over that time. But since the early 1980′s, a specialty within the profession has emerged which encompasses the highest level of education and training in the human brain and nervous system, and that is the field of chiropractic neurology.

Chiropractic neurology was developed by Dr. Frederick Carrick and is unique within the healing arts because it relies on modern neuroscience and neurology in its diagnostics and evaluations, but uses only natural, non-pharmaceutical interventions. Chiropractic neurologists understand that in order for the human nervous system to function optimally, a few important criteria must be met. Those include proper fuel delivery, as in oxygen, glucose and substrates, and adequate activation or stimulation. If any one of these crucial elements is missing, the system can break down. Therapeutic applications are then designed to target specific brain areas, while optimized metabolic function to bring the nervous system to a state of higher functionality and health.

For the larger part of the twentieth century, the prevailing theory in the neuroscience community was that of a ‘fixed’ brain. In essence, the brain that you formed as an adult was ‘hard wired’ and unchangeable. We now know this to be untrue. If fact, our human brain is extremely changeable, adaptive and dynamic. We refer to these qualities as ‘neuroplasticity’.

Neuroplasticity represents a minute-to-minute flux and change in our brains, and it is essential to our health and function as we navigate through our daily lives. And this changeability is not just confined to childhood developmental years. In fact, this process can happen at any age, provided that all of the criteria listed above are provided.

It is this concept which has emerged as a cutting-edge therapeutic model in the treatment of chronic conditions such as migraine headaches, vertigo, fibromyalgia and more. By utilizing the concept of neuroplasticity, a well trained clinician can help guide the process of change within a persons brain and nervous system, ultimately gaining new found hope and results in otherwise unresponsive conditions.

David B. Sullivan DC of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania has devoted his career to the research and clinical application of neuroplasticity in the hopes of bringing hope and results to people who have been suffering with a chronic health condition. With the wealth of knowledge of the human brain that has emerged in the last few decades, this functional neurology approach can offer benefits to a wide variety of conditions, and in drug-free way. Dr. Sullivan was recently quoted as saying: “I am not anti-pharmaceutical and I appreciate that medications have an important role to play in the treatment of various conditions, but I am a strong advocate for natural health. I would encourage patients and clinicians alike to seek the root cause and exhaust any natural methods before conceding to long-term drug therapy”.

The field of functional neurology is pioneering new frontiers in the understanding and treatment of chronic illness. New developments are emerging nearly every week, as this group of dedicated clinicians advances this field of health science. Dr Sullivan states: “we now have multi-national university hospital affiliations, and our researchers and clinicians will be inundating the literature in the coming years with new data and understanding on this approach”.

“We have an amazing depth of knowledge about the brain and how it works, but there is still so much to learn”, Dr. Sullivan says. Some of the conditions which have shown exciting results with this approach include Fibromyalgia and other chronic pain states, ADD/ADHD, Vertigo, Migraines and Autistic Spectrum Disorders. For more information, visit http:www.keystonenaturalhealth.com.

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