Brisbane Network Chiropractic

What is Network?

Network Spinal Analysis

Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) was originally developed as a subluxation classification, analysis as well as a low force adjustment application. This has evolved into a system of enhancing spinal and neural integrity though development of biologically entrained responses purported to advance emerging properties of the spine and nervous system. Evidence exists to support the benefits of NSA care in relationship to enhanced health, quality of life, healthier lifestyles and life choices. It is currently being represented and taught as a unique discipline, which has very specific benefits to a wide range of disciplines and is well adapted for the scope of vertebral subluxation based chiropractic.

Network Spinal Analysis involves a clinical assessment of individuals that also incorporates a patient centered education process. Through specific contacts with the tissues overlying the spine, it utilizes a low force protocol employing concepts derived from a variety of health professions and theoretical sciences.

The objectives of NSA are to:
(a) Promote patient self-awareness of the spinal structures, including gross and subtle movement of spinal structures, spinal tension patterns, associated participation with the respiratory system, responses to stress.

(b) Initiate the production of spontaneous, self-generated Somatopsychic responses which are postulated to dissipate tension, or stored energy from the active, passive, neural control, meningeal and emotional subsystems, and is postulated to thus re-establish, or otherwise maintain when appropriate, that element of spinal integrity which promotes increased neural effectiveness and enhances the body's ability to self-organize;

(c) Detect the presence of indications of adverse mechanical spinal cord tension, and associated altered states of spinal and neural integrity;

(d) Administer safe and effective applications of low force believed to affect the nervous system's capacity to enhance precognitive and cognitive self-awareness. The process is also believed to promote self-regulation of adverse mechanical spinal cord tension through the natural oscillatory patterns of associated tissues;

(e) To evaluate the efficacy of the above by relating the application of NSA to patient self-ratings regarding their wellness and quality of life, and to conduct research investigating the hypothesis advanced relative to the above objectives of NSA.

Benefits of Network Care
A recent retrospective study of 2,818 patients receiving Network care in the United States and around the world, demonstrated that Network care is associated with profound and statistically significant improvement in self-reported wellness areas. Patients report changes in:

Physical well being	Stress

Patients report:	Patients report improvement in their:

reduced pain improved spinal flexibility more energy less fatigue fewer cold and flu symptoms fewer headaches	overall health and general well-being ability to cope with daily problems family relationships significant relationships work

Emotional and Psychological well-being	Life Enjoyment

Patients experience:	Patients experience:

less distress about physical pain more positive feelings about self decreased moodiness improved temper fewer angry outbursts less depression and more interest in life fewer concerns about "small" things improved ability to concentrate less anxiety improved ability to stay on task	openness to guidance by inner feelings increased relaxation and well-being positive feelings about self interest in maintaining a healthy life-style feeling of openness when relating to others compassion for others

Life-style changes	Quality of Life

Patients report increases in: regular exercise practice of Tai Chi/Yoga meditation and prayer relaxation and self-hypnosis consuming health food and vitamins eating partial or total vegetarian diet decreased need for prescription medications	Patients experience improvement in: personal lifeself-awarenessability to adapt to change handling problems in life accomplishments in life life as a whole overall contentment with life relationship with significant other job satisfaction life being as it was thought to be romantic life actual work done relationship with co-workers physical appearance

References: Blanks, RH; Boone, WR; Schmidt, S; Dobson, M; Network Care: A retrospective outcomes assessment. 1996 Dobson, M; Boone WR; Blanks, RH; Women and Alternative Health Care: A retropective study of recipients of Network Care. 1996

Network Spinal Analysis: A Research Perspective

NSA is a unique system for advancing spinal and neural integrity; developing new strategies of self-organization, and living life from the "inside out".
By Donald Epstein, D.C.

I am proud to report that studies of NSA patients' self reported changes span the largest range of health and wellness domains for a non-medical approach. Even more exciting is that this study performed through the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine indicates improvements in all areas surveyed. Strikingly, 76% of the 2,818 patient self-reported retrospective assessments show statistically significant improvement in their Physical, Emotional, Stress, and Life Enjoyment categories of health and wellness as well as their overall quality of life. Even in patients in care for more than 3 years, there appeared to be no ceiling to improvement.

Network Care is associated with significant improvement in self-rated perceptions of "wellness." Patients who have been under care the longest time reported the greatest improvement in wellness. This retrospective study reflects a large epidemiological group and could be a benchmark for future studies assessing health and wellness related outcomes among patients with a more holistic view of health.

The completed longitudinal study followed a population in care over a one year period. The data collected further validated the questionnaire used to measure wellness and quality of life, and gave us great insight into the strong changes patients achieve in Network Care.

It was found that patients continue in care long after symptoms reduce or disappear. They make healthier choices in their life and enjoyed life more. The study of people receiving Network Spinal Analysis demonstrated that people found reasons other than physical symptoms to continue in care. This was revealed by their improved wellness and quality of life indicators.

Network care is delivered to enhance improvement in the patient's passive, active, neural, and emotional sub-systems, advancing their spinal and neural integrity. Outcome assessment revealed predictable and reproducible development of new strategies of self-organization as one progressed through a series of Levels of Care.

Each Level of Care appears to be accompanied by an increase in self- awareness and self-responsibility by the patient for his spine, and nervous system, in relationship to his healing and life.

Rather than attempting to fix or control any problem, including nerve tension, pressure, stress, pain, fixation or subluxation, or to return a patient to a previous state, an NSA practitioner will seek to promote new properties within the nervous system and spinal tissues. These properties are believed to assist in advancing spinal and neural integrity, wellness, quality of life and self organization, allowing the expression of a greater degree of wellness.

Research demonstrates that even if a patient changes diet, exercise, meditates, and performs other health promoting practices, the wellness index questionnaire does not predict greater wellness, unless there is also a greater level of life enjoyment. This is paradigm shifting information. In my opinion, this supports the concept that an internal state of well being helps empower the educated choices we make, and that doing "the right things" does not necessarily produce wellness and health. Increased wellness helps our lifestyle choices to work for us.

The improvement in each of the domains of wellness almost doubled when NSA care was applied, as compared to when only constructive health/lifestyle changes were implemented.

You may have seen, experienced or heard about the two types of natural body waves, one respiratory and one somatopsychic, that develop uniquely in Network Spinal Analysis care. These waves are believed to dissipate tension and re organize the functioning of the spine and nervous system. The awareness of the waves in patients is the most significant predictor of enhanced wellness on all levels measured.

The "somatopsychic wave" is a consistent, repeatable physiological phenomenon which can be studied as a non-linear mathematical model. This is of interest to other disciplines studying the dynamics of human function. At the University of Southern California, the NSA population is being studied to assess certain mathematical aspects of biological self-organization. Moreover, in a group of people expressing the "somatopsychic wave", it has been observed that movements of the larger spinal muscles exhibit synchrony, or "entrain" within the population.

Preliminary studies demonstrate that the organization of the surface EMG signal (recorded on patients possessing the strategy of the Somatopsychic wave) develops greater levels of complexity as the subjects progressed through subsequent Levels of Care. An exciting next step in research will be to characterize the mathematics of this wave in relation to each Level of Care. This would permit a correlation between each of the Levels of Care and such aspects of patient progress as enhanced self-organization.

I am actively supporting further clinical investigation. I believe it is essential to conduct ongoing research to further understand NSA's mode of action. This will advance our knowledge and improve the quality of service we can provide to the public.

I have clinically dedicated myself to furthering the knowledge of the biological links which will help us express a greater range of our humanity. I believe this will help us make healthier choices for ourselves, be to be a more compassionate, vital, creative, self aware, and responsible human culture. I believe that by optimizing the individual's biology, NSA will facilitate positive transformation on a global scale, changing the world a spine at a time.

Published in The Chiropractic Journal September, 2000

Spinal Gateway
Rather than correction of a subluxation, an adaptive pathomechanical distortion causing a loss of health and attempting to correct it restoring a person to their previous state, Network Spinal Analysis seeks to evaluate for and apply forces to the Spinal Gateway.

The result is the development of new strategies for living and for spinal and neural integrity that does not involve blaming a single reductionistic linear cause for a person's loss of health. As a consequence no attempt is made to restore an individual to a previous state relative to their physical disease or biomedical distortion. Instead the approach seeks development of new strategies for a new life which applies to the person's internal state of wellness. It seeks to establish something not otherwise available.