"Network Care has a direct effect on client self- reported wellness which is twice that expected from healthy lifestyle practices (exercise, risk avoidance, optimal food choices).  Network also has a major indirect effect on wellness by promoting healthy life-style choices."


Robert H. Blanks, Ph.D.,
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of California, Irvine

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research
Volume 2, Number 1, 1998

Images on the right reflect cortical activity following a Network Spinal Analysis™ adjustment session, taken approximately 20 minutes after the first set of images, involving the same activity of a "novel" muscular maneuver of the foot. It is clear that the brain became much more efficient with the “novel” foot maneuver after the Network Chiropractic Adjustment.  The ability of fMRI to visualize changes in cortical activity may play a significant role in elucidating the consequences of vertebral subluxation correction on neurological function.

What does this mean?  The brain was more efficient and did not have to recruit other areas of the brain to when asked to perform a simple task.  Having an efficient nervous system is a highly desirable quality.

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What research has been done on Network Chiropractic?
A groundbreaking study was performed at UC Irvine Medical School, which examined 2818 people under Network care. Seventy-six percent (76%) of the people in the study experienced greater wellness in their lives on a physical and emotional level, as well as an overall improvement in their quality of life. 

The following categories, with examples from each section, all showed statistical and clinically significant benefits: 

 

1. Improved Physical State:

  • Less physical pain
  • Less tension or stiffness of spine 
  • Improved allergies, eczema, skin rashes
  • Fewer incidence of colds and flu
  • Fewer headaches
  • Less menstrual discomfort 

2. Improved Response to Stress: 
    (Less stress relative to:)

  • Family
  • Significant relationship
  • Health
  • Finances
  • Daily problems
  • Work
  • General well being

3. Improved Mental/Emotional State:

  • Positive feelings about self
  • Less moodiness, less angry outbursts, less depression
  • More interest in life
  • Improved ability to think and concentrate
  • Less anxiety and concern about vague fears
  • Improved ability to stay on task, less distress about pain

4. Improved Life Enjoyment:

  • Openness to guidance by "inner voice feelings"
  • Experience of relaxation and well being 
  • Positive feelings about self
  • Interest in maintaining a healthy lifestyle
  • Feeling open when relating to others
  • Confidence when dealing with adversity
  • Compassion for and acceptance of others
  • Feelings of joy or happiness

5. Improved Overall Quality of Life relative to:

  • Personal life
  • Oneself
  • Extent one adapts to change
  • Handling of problems in life
  • Actual life accomplishments
  • Life as a whole
  • Overall contentment with life
  • Significant other
  • Job
  • Life being what one wants it to be
  • Romantic life
  • Actual work done
  • Co-workers
  • Physical appearance

In addition to these categories, there was also a significant increase in health promoting practices and a decrease in health detracting practices.

Chaotic Modeling in Network Spinal Analysis.
This paper presents a preliminary non-linear mathematical analysis of surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals from a subject receiving Network Spinal Analysis.
www.jvsr.com/abstracts/2498-0022_chaotic.htm

 

 

 

 





















Dr. Lisa Carlet, Gentle Network Chiropractic Care, Serving Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor, CO