Sensory Nervous System Integration is a term used by Dr. Vidmar to describe an extensive approach to address the problem of the sensory system's failure to send messages to the brain. The brain cannot communicate and control the body part, so the body part starts to break down and disease of any sort occurs. Eighty percent of the peripheral nervous system is designated for the sensory perception of the body. Motor nerves move, sensory nerves tell the brain all about the body. Dr. Vdmar has excellent results in re-establishing the sensory nervous system with the use of the Cold Laser treatment therapy. Trauma from any source, such as a blow to the head, stressful life situations, or over stimulation over a prolonged period can lead to sensory nervous system dissociation with associated systems.

Dissociation occurs when the sensory nervous system is over-loaded. The twelve cranial nerves have a protective function. If the part of the body that the cranial nerve protects is over-loaded from a stimulus, then the cranial nerve will stop the bombarding nerve stimulus from over stimulating the brain. Our bodies somehow have lost the ability to reset this neurological pathway.

Dr. Bob Scaer and Peter Levine have written text books on this subject. Neurologist, Dr. Scaer, noticed common traits and behaviors in the nervous systems of those people that were over-stimulated. This lead to years of research and eventually he published his discoveries in two text books, Your Body Bears the Burden and The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency. Peter Levine wrote Waking the Tiger. The context explains how our bodies respond to stress and the effects on behavior.

These three books are highly recommended.

In our clinic we use kinesiology to determine which of the twelve cranial nerves have dissociated. We then repolarize the neurological pathways with the Cold Lasers The body regains communication with the brain, and proper neurological function will immediately return. When this occurs, usually the pain will immediately be gone, and the weakness or dysfunction of the body will return to normal.

We all have heard of the flight or fight response. This always occurs in our nervous system. Only when we cannot accommodate our innate responses does the dissociation occur. An example of how dissociation can occur in our lives: We have a job that pays well. We have the choice to work at the job because the pay is what we need and want. However, the working conditions are very overstimulating and often cause anxiety. This can be from a co-worker, a boss, high demands of production, unrealistic goals, angry customers, etc. We become over stimulated at these times. If we can work through the issues and realize that we are in this situation by choice and deal with it, we do not dissociate. Feeling trapped, angry, depressed, abused, etc. will lead to the area of over-stimulation be it from the ears, the eye's, or the physical body, the cranial nerve will sense the overload and protect the brain with blocking the input and dissociation then occurs.

Other examples are the animals in the wild. If they receive an injury and get up and shake it off, they will recover. If the animal does not shake it off, then disease or death will occur.

The deer in the head lights is another example of overload. The animal goes into what is called a freeze response.

Our nervous system is made up of parasympathetic and sympathetic fibers. The sympathetic fibers are designed to over react, i.e., run from a fire, run from danger. The parasympathetic system is the Rest and Digest system.

When we dissociate, the sypathetic system gets stuck in over action, and the parasympathetic system goes into a withdraw mode or freeze response.

At our clinic we can determine which has occured in your body, and with the use of the Cold Laser, we can normalize these neurological reactions. We then will teach each patient what their nervous system has done and try to work with them. Each patient must work on adapting to their environment with our suggestions in order to stop the over stimulation. If they are not successful, they run the risk that the dissociation can re-occur.

Have you ever wondered why one disc in the spine will break down over time and eventually herniate? If this was a true genetic problem, then why does only one disc break down? The answer is simple: the cranial nerve that controls that disc has dissociated. The disc cannot communicate to the brain. The brain no longer controls the disc, so it starts to break down.

"Our bodies only break down when the brain no longer controls it."

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