Random thoughts on biodynamic craniosacral therapy and stuff we like
Self touch improves the picture of our body in the brain and reduces the experience of pain (Results from new study in Current Biology) Below is a link to a really interesting article on how representation of the body affects the experience of pa...
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Here's a wonderful video on research into touch. If anyone is feeling inspired to be part of a pilot team to look into meaningful research for BCST please feel free to say yes.
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Here's a great video, very creatively put together, which reminds me that it is not just about receiving treatments it is about making things happen with your health on a daily basis not relying on the 50 minute therapy session. Afterall, there's ...
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Check the first two or three minutes of this spinal cord operation. Before the dura is opened you can see the csf (and cord?) moving through the membrane (around 0.30 plus). When the dura and then arachnoid is opened the flow of csf is c...
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Here's a great article on pain and the brain science behind the latest discoveries which appeared in the New Zealand Listener and is part of a growing awareness around pain mechanisms in the public domain. The article includes a piece on the neuro...
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Here's a wonderful article from Time Healthland Ezine revealing how the brain loses consciousness. It looks like the brain functions as a whole or a cluster of relationships and that consciousness is a product of the whole rather than residing in ...
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'Ginsberg (1974) immobilized chicks, and then allowed one group to recover spontaneously, and one to recover, but with prodding and stimuli to terminate the freeze. These groups, along with a third group of chicks that had not been immobilized, w...
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Here's a wonderful article on the debate about whether alternative medicine works and the view of it in mainstream medicine, alternative medicine, politics, science and from its detractors. What seems so hard to believe is that no form of research...
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Sphenobasilar junction (SBJ) in sagittal section I have been going back into biomechanics and have reread a few papers that influenced how I think about the skull and the cranial paradigm. Partly triggered by my periodic reading, like picking at...
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