K-Laser Therapy
MUA
Spinal Decompression
Vaccination Facts
Meet Our Doctors
Print out a form
Find Us
Home
|
NeuroCranial Restructuring.
The ultimate structural correction!
|
Treatable
Conditions are in alphabetical order.
Please refer to the Indexto locate your condition.
Organ
Functioning
The brain and nervous system control the
activation of function of the organs of the body. The nutritional status
of the body, the toxic load maintained, the general lifestyle, living environment,
the history of trauma
and the organ damage history all influence organ function. Any person having
organ problems needs to pay attention to all these factors while on the road
to recovery. NCR can be one factor because the structure of the skeleton
affects the nervous system functions, and they control the operating stimulation
of the organs.
Orthodontic Stress and Bruxism (grinding)
There are a few factors to consider when finding the causes of orthodontic
stress and bruxism: personal and nutritional stress as well as structural
problems can be factors. It is important for a person with dental stress
and bruxism to maintain a stable emotional life. It is also sensible to take
vitamins, mineral and adaptogenic supplements to minimize the nutritional
deficiencies that can put the nervous system on edge.
However, NCR is a very important part of effective treatment of dental stress
and bruxism. NCR can relieve the mechanical stress on the nervous system
from the musculoskeletal structures, which decreases
orthodontic stress and bruxism greatly. Also, some of the effects of bruxism
can be reversed. Chronic chewing and grinding affect the shape of the teeth,
and as the bite mechanics change, the chewing muscles
slowly change the shape of the head. This new head shape is rarely desirable,
so NCR can help to remedy the problems created by bruxism and dental stress
by reshaping the head.
It is very important for people undergoing orthodontia to have NCR sequences
regularly during orthodontic treatment as well as after treatment, because
the head alignment patterns created by the
orthodontia can be improved greatly with the NCR.
Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a multifaceted disease characterized by excessive bone loss.
There are nutritional, lifestyle, hormonal and mechanical factors that affect
its progress. Most osteoporosis emphasizes nutrition and medication: supplementation
of minerals (especially calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, manganese and boron),
vitamin D and hormones (remedying deficiencies of estrogens, natural progesterone
or calcitonin and excess cortisol). It is also recommended to stop smoking
cigarettes. Finally, weight-bearing exercise is advised.
Cells in the bone also known as osteoclasts reabsorb bone, and cells called
osteoblasts secrete bone. They are present all the time in living bone, existing
in a state of dynamic equilibrium. When the osteoclasts are more active,
the area experiences bone loss, and when the osteoblasts migrate into the
area, there is bone growth. The assumed mechanism with osteoporosis is this
imbalance, with excessive activity of the osteoclasts or a lack of activity
of osteoblasts. Hormones are used to correct this imbalance. Certain vitamins
and minerals provide all of the nutrients needed to make bone, covering any
deficiencies that may exist. Weight-bearing exercise is used because gravitational
forces stimulate osteoblasts, while lack of gravity increases osteoclast
activity.
NCR dovetails into this picture dramatically because it improves postural
patterns. As the postural pattern improves, the amount of weight carried
by the skeleton increases. With increased gravitational weight in the bone,
the activity levels of the osteoblasts increase.
So NCR addresses the gravitational problems of osteoporosis elegantly. Improved
posture makes physical activity easier, leading to a further increase in
skeletal weight bearing, producing even greater amounts of stronger bone.
Parkinson's Disease and Tremors
Parkinson's disease is a condition involving low levels of the neurotransmitter
dopamine to specific receptors in the brain stem. The general symptoms of
Parkinson's include:
1) Drooling
2) A mask-like, unemotional appearance of the face,
3) A flexed (tightly hunched) body posture with muscle tightness throughout
the body,
4) A limitation of movement generally, including a difficult, shuffling
gait when walking,
5) Difficulty standing or with beginning movement (resembling a frozen sort
of paralysis) and
6) Visual perception that makes entering doorways and enclosed spaces difficult.
The medical treatment model is to increase the level of seratonin throughout
the brain. Although this is not a cure, it can usually control the severity
if tremors. However, the movement and perceptual difficulties do not seemed
to be helped with medication. Additionally, the problem for some patients
are the side effects of the medication.
Clinical experience with Parkinson's disease through NCR is encouraging.
Generally there is improvement in all of the symptoms described above. Most
of the time, the tremors temporarily worsened with treatment, but in more
recent months, with improvements in NCR technique, less of that has been
seen.
The reason why NCR is effective for what is considered to be a degeneration
of the basal ganglia of the brainstem is that there is impaired circulation
of blood and cerebrospinal fluid into this area of the brain for Parkinson's
sufferers, and NCR increases circulation. Medications do increase the level
of serotonin in the brain, and this resolves the symptom of low serotonin
delivery levels in this part of the brain. However, by changing the shape
of the skull with NCR, the flow patterns and cerebrospinal fluid are dramatically
improved, and this changes the amount of serotonin delivered into the affected
areas of the brain too. NCR improves the postural pattern as well, with concomitant
greater ease of movement. The perceptual changes with NCR seem to revolve
around lessening of the mechanical tension in the meningeal system. When
this occurs, there is a nervous system-wide improvement in function
NCR can be a very promising treatment currently available for Parkinson's
disease.
Phobias
Phobias are a type of anxiety. They are thinking patterns and behaviors
based on exaggerated, irrational fear of a thing or situation. Phobic people
are aware that their behavior makes no sense, but it is so unpleasant to
experience the fear that they attempt to avoid the situation.
Clinical experience with phobic patients indicates that NCR treatments make
them better. The treatment model explains why phobias are not simply psychiatric
problems but are instead ideas created by abnormal brain function, triggered
by aberrant flow of cerebrospinal fluid, resulting from the shape of the
skull, creating undesirable delivery of neurotransmitters. NCR gradually
optimizes head shape
as well as the flow and delivery characteristics of neurotransmitters and
cerebrospinal fluid.
NCR, then, is a way to cure the phobias instead of attempting to change
behavior through counseling and conditioning.
Poor Concentration and Focus
Many people complain of poor concentration and an inability to focus their
thoughts. It is generally regarded as a problem of inattention or poor thinking
habits, however NCR work on both myself and others has given me a new outlook.
The explanation is the same one used for leaning disabilities, anxiety,
depression, phobias and other conditions of the brain: After cranial traumas
such as birth, falls, beatings, accidents, sports injuries or medical and
dental treatment, the bones of the head are not found in their ideal locations.
This affects the flow of blood and cerebrospinal fluid in the brain. Compromised
circulation leads to varied levels of neurotransmitters in the brain, with
some areas getting adequate or excessive neurotransmitter deliveries, and
other areas receiving inadequate amounts.
This leads to suboptimal functioning of the brain! In the situation of poor
concentration and focus, the brain is not able to perform these tasks because
neurotransmitter levels are inadequate. NCR therapy optimizes skull shape,
maximizing fluid flow dynamics in the skull, and creating neurotransmitter
equilibrium in the brain.
Relationship Difficulties
Cranial manipulation can improve your relationships!? This sounds silly,
however, some individuals seem not to get along with anybody, finding something
in all their relationships to blame for their unhappiness. Also couples sometimes
are not nice to one another, and they have little tolerance for each another.
This breeds poor communication in all of their relationships as well. Such
people are often tired, have headaches, sinus problems and allergies, so
they just don't feel good.
After undergoing NCR treatment, people start to feel better. Their brains
function better, too. They are more tolerant and communicate better with
their family and co-workers. One wife begged her husband to return for more
treatments because he was so much more pleasant around the house after NCR.
The improvement in the position
of the pelvis through NCR can help the quality of couples' sex lives as
well. Many children stop behaving aggressively or peevishly after NCR
enhances their brain fluids flow. For some of the children treated, their
behavior with their family and schoolmates determines the frequency with
which they are brought in for treatment.
NCR is an important way of improving behavior and relationships.
Back Problems:
Sciatica, Kyphosis (hunchback), Lordosis (swayback), Scoliosis (a spiral
spine), Military Spine (from whiplash) and other
back problems
Back problems are the result of the postural pattern of the body leading
to excessive stress on the muscles and the nerves, creating pain. Kyphosism,
lordosis and scoliosis are postural patterns of the spine. There is no
conventional medical treatment for postural problems, with the exception
of surgical intervention.
Consider a whiplash injury. It is caused by a whip-like action of the
head and neck, moving the center of the head forward (anteriorly) on the
neck. This makes the head balance differently. The body's solution to
the dilemma of holding the head up in a stable pattern is to change the
curve of the neck into a straighter or even a reverse curve pattern. No
wonder that local treatment of the neck does not help much!!
Similarly, a kyphotic (hunchback condition), scoliotic (spiral-shaped
spine) or lordotic (swayback) spine is created from the stabilization
pattern of the HEAD. Local treatment of these spinal patterns is often
only temporary. When the bones of the head are misaligned, the only postural
patterns that the nervous system can find to support the head in a stable
pattern result in kyphosis, lordosis, scoliosis or the "whiplash pattern"
(a very straight spine).
Only NCR can ROUTINELY expect to make changes in kyphosis, lordosis and scoliosis. This is because the reasons for these postures are not conditions
in the spine but instead problems in the position of bones in the SKULL.
It sounds funny to say that scoliosis begins in the face, but it's true!!
Seizures
The problem of seizures is caused by abnormal activity in the brain where
these activities are controlled by neurotransmitters. Could it be that
changes in neurotransmitter levels in the affected areas of the brain
could change seizure activity?
Please refer to the sections on anxiety and depression to understand the
neurotransmitter activity in the brain.
NCR should become a part of treatment for all those that suffer with seizures.
Snoring, Sleep Apnea,
Chronic Sinus Problems
When NCR is performed, an endonasal balloon is inflated in one of the
two nasal breathing passages one to four times each treatment. The nasal
breathing passages (the two areas that begin with the nostrils and end
in the throat) are made bigger with NCR.
This improves nasal breathing function. As the interlocking bones of the
head "shift", movement continues throughout the skull until the pressures
between the bones are equalized. With NCR, most widening of the nasal
airways initially created by the endonasal balloon can be retained. NCR
enables a person to
breathe easily through the nose.
When a person snores, the noisy inhalation and exhalation of air through
the mouth creates the noise. It is the chronically clogged or narrow nose
and its inability to breathe well that force the need to breathe through
the mouth. When NCR opens the nasal airway, the need for mouth breathing
is diminished. This
diminishes snoring, too, sometimes instantly.
Many people with sleep apnea have terrible problems with the nasal airway.
For them, NCR dramatically improves the severity of their sleep apnea.
There is less improvement with NCR for the person with sleep apnea whose
tongue falls into the throat, blocking the passage of air down the throat.
Only some of the bones of the cranium have sinuses. The sinuses are caves
inside the bones of the head. In some ways, the sinuses of the head are
like bathtubs. Bathtubs fill with water and drain through a hole in the
lowest part of the tub. When there is a problem with the drain, or if
the bathtub is tilted the wrong
way, the water stays in the tub. If your bathtub is full of water, it
grows scum. One way to keep the slime from growing in the water is to
dump bleach into the tub. But the solution to the problem is to fix the
problem of drainage. The symptomatic approach is to control the scum in
the water with bleach. (Drugs).
Similarly, each sinus has a small opening, which is usually the lowest
area of the floor of the cave. From that opening a small drainage tube
leads into the nasal breathing passage. With sinusitis, the drainage area
of the sinus is not found in the lowest position. The bones of the head
have been pushed into a slight tilt.
This prevents complete drainage of the mucus normally manufactured by
the mucous membranes of the sinus.
If an infective microorganism gets into the area, the mucus is a wonderful
breeding area for infection. But the body can kill disease only where
the bloodstream can touch. The center of a sinus chamber is not part of
the bloodstream. Only the walls, floor and ceiling of the sinuses are
in direct contact with the bloodstream and all its antibodies.
When the sinus doesn't drain, the body is capable of only controlling
the GROWTH of the microorganism, not killing it off. This is why many
sinus infections are chronic: the body can't kill them! The common solution
is to use antibacterial substances. Some people use synthetic antibiotics;
others use
colloidal silver or herbs. Either way, the symptom (the bacteria) is being
treated, not the cause - the position of the sinus.
We were not designed to have sinus problems!! Our original blueprints
did not include sinusitis as an option. As the skull optimizes with NCR,
the position of the bones housing the sinuses improves, so the sinuses
drain better, and the body is able to kill off the original culture of
the infection.
With NCR, sinus problems STOP.
Strokes
Strokes create brain damage and are caused by bursting blood vessels or
excessive blood clots blocking the arteries in the brain. Manipulation
should make no difference in the blood's clotting activity, and there
will most likely be no benefit from NCR from this standpoint. But some
of the effects of the stroke could be
mechanical, rather than permanent damage to the brain. In this situation,
NCR should be helpful, and it is. Persons who have suffered strokes generally
improve their brain functions with NCR.
Tinnitus (Ringing in Ears)
Tinnitus is a very disruptive condition, especially if it is severe.
The bones of the skull impinging the auditory nerve can create tinnitus,
especially the sphenoid and temporal bones. Once again, this is a wonderful
situation for NCR, with less risk and expense than surgery.
Clinically, about 50% of tinnitus cases respond well to NCR treatment.
Sometimes the ringing in the ears will fluctuate each day. This is not
a condition whose ultimate therapy combination has yet been found.
Vertigo and other Balance Problems
Dramatic and exciting results in treating these conditions through NCR,
from 12-year olds to senior citizens have been seen.
Balance problems and vertigo are situations affecting a part of the inner
ears known as the semicircular canals. They are located in the bones just
behind the visible portion of the ear. The two semicircular canals are
each comprised of three bony rings filled with fluid, set at different
positions so that at least one of the
canals has fluid movement any time the head is moved. The brain uses the
six fluid-filled canals to determine where the ground is or at least where
the pull of gravity is coming from. The more your head moves, the more
the fluid in the inner ear moves, and the more movement the brain is aware
of.
The process of determining balance is complex. Each movement of the head
causes movement of at least one of the semicircular canals, and the sensors
inside the affected canal(s) respond to the fluid movement and stimulate
the brain to change body muscle-coordination patterns to react to the
movement of the
brain.
People with poor balance, dizziness and vertigo have common structural
patterns:
The position of their ears is not uniform and symmetrical. When this happens,
the brain is using two groups of sensors placed at different angles and
heights to determine the position of the ground. Often these people are
dependent on their vision to maintain their balance because of this asymmetry.
Imagine what it would be like to be blindfolded and walking with two persons,
one at each ear. They are whispering "walking directions" to you. What
do you do if they give you different information? Do you pick one to believe?
Do you stop and get scared? This is the situation a person has when the
ears are not positioned symmetrically. Having your ears at different angles
and different positions on the head (implying rotation of the temporal
bones relative to one another) is a similar experience, except that it
seems normal to the sufferer; nobody knows that this situation can be
changed!
The normal result expected with NCR is for the temporal bone positions
to become more symmetrical, and for the balance (proprioception) to improve.
This is the ultimate treatment of choice for people with balance, dizziness
and vertigo problems |
|
Learn about NCR
Please Subscribe
To Our Newsletter
View Informative Videos
From Dr. Lieurance
View the List of
Supplements We Offer
|
