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Spinal Manipulations
Helps The Brain!

spinal manipulation helps brain





Comment from Dr. Mladenoff

This study confirmed that one (1) spinal manipulation of dysfunctional spinal segments makes your brain work better!


 This suggests that spinal manipulation improves performance due to a change in function at the prefrontal cortex. 


The change in prefrontal cortex suggests that the altered input from dysfunctional joints that leads to altered processing of somatosensory inputs can influence processing of somatosensory information by the prefrontal cortex. 


Chiropractic care, by treating spinal dysfunction, appears to change processing by the prefrontal cortex. This suggests that chiropractic care may as well have benefits that exceed simply reducing pain or improving muscle function and may explain some claims regarding this made by chiropractors.
Manipulation of Dysfunctional Spinal Joints Affects Sensorimotor Integration in the Prefrontal Cortex: A Brain Source Localization Study.  Neural Plasticity
Volume 2016, Article ID 3704964, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3704964
Dina Lelic,  Imran Khan Niazi,  Kelly Holt,   Mads Jochumsen, Kim Dremstrup,  Paul Yielder, Bernadette Murphy,  Asbjørn Mohr Drewes, and Heidi Haavik

Abstract

Objectives.
Studies have shown decreases in N30 somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) peak amplitudes following spinal manipulation (SM) of dysfunctional segments in subclinical pain (SCP) populations. This study sought to verify these findings and to investigate underlying brain sources that may be responsible for such changes.

Methods. Nineteen SCP volunteers attended two experimental sessions, SM and control in random order. SEPs from 62-channel EEG cap were recorded following median nerve stimulation (1000 stimuli at 2.3 Hz) before and after either intervention. Peak-to-peak amplitude and latency analysis was completed for different SEPs peak. Dipolar models of underlying brain sources were built by using the brain electrical source analysis. Two-way repeated measures ANOVA was used to assessed differences in N30 amplitudes, dipole locations, and dipole strengths.

Results. SM decreased the N30 amplitude by
% (), while no differences were seen following the control interventionb. Brain source modeling revealed a 4-source model but only the prefrontal source showed reduced activity by % () following SM.

Conclusion. A single session of spinal manipulation of dysfunctional segments in subclinical pain patients alters somatosensory processing at the cortical level, particularly within the prefrontal cortex.
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