Subluxation Neurology

Course overview

Learn the neurology of pain perception. Learn three types of pain and their clinical differences in terms of chiropractic management. Distinguish between the clinical management of compressive neuropathology v. supersensitivity nerve interference. Discuss the integrated physiology between inflammation, fibrosis, the Gate Theory, and chiropractic adjusting. Complete an interactive clinical neuroanatomy of chronic spine pain, including: receptors, synapses, cord pathways, brain representation, and how they are influenced by spinal adjusting. Complete an interactive exercise of spinal mechanoreceptor driven vestibular nuclei controls of somatic function and visceral function. Complete an upper cervical - trigeminal cervical nucleus integrative model for chiropractic spinal adjusting. Integrate the clinical relationships between chronic spine pain and spinal mechanoreception, including: constant v. non-constant thalamic summation/integration; ascending inhibitory principles; descending inhibitory principles; immune system function. Discuss the clinical relevance of receptor driven neuroplasticity, synaptogenesis, and transneural degeneration. Discuss the concept of spinal mechanoreceptor driven hypothalamic controls of visceral function. Discuss the relationship between mechanoreceptors, the sympathetic nervous system, and neuroimmunology. Discuss the relationships between the nucleus tractus solitarius and the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve.