When you experience your body moving on the table, you are experiencing one of the wave phenomena that occur in NetworkSpinal care.

The wave is a way that the body unwinds any defensive, conditioned and inauthentic patterns of behaviour. The more refined and energy-efficient this signalling is, the better you can respond to your environment and express your authentic self.

This spinal wave is an involuntary and organic expression of the reorganisational ability of the nervous system in dissipating, reseting and recalibrating tension along the entire spine and connective tissue systems.

It is a strategy that develops over time and presents uniquely for each person.

This has been analysed since the 1990's by the STEM departments of multiple universities and is now recognised as the second only-known Central Pattern Generator (CPG) of the human body.

A CPG is the way your brain controls, activates and organises your sensorimotor strategies. This means the way you move your muscles, walk, run, behave, respond to your environment and express yourself.

When your brain activates all these responses, it does so in a way that is uniquely you. It is like your own signature or fingerprint. For example, the first known CPG is the human gait (walk), and technology today is capable of identifying an individual solely based on their gait. That's how individualised a CPG is.

Department of Electrical Engineering UCAL - NetworkSpinal and the wave phenomena research can be found here.

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine - Research about the NetworkSpinal and wave phenomena as a central pattern generator (CPG) can be found here.

To read more about NetworkSpinal research, please see our; “Research” page.

"The purpose of pain is to interrupt your life." - Dr. Donny Epstein (DC).

Pain is an intelligent response and an invitation for change. Unless the necessary changes in perception, structure or behaviour are taking place in your life, you will still have the experience of pain.

The objective of NetworkSpinal is greater nervous system coherence and regulation. As your nervous system changes, it is very common that the body is able to resolve the symptoms (and more), however, NetworkSpinal is not a treatment for pain, as that is not the objective.

Your body orchestrates its own healing, so pain can resolve when it is no longer needed, and not a moment sooner.

Instead of asking Will this help my pain?, what happens if you ask How is my pain trying to help me?

A study of 165,569 adults found opioid pain relief prescription was 55% lower among chiropractic clients compared with those not under care.

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NetworkSpinal has demonstrated positive outcomes for improving HRV (Heart-Rate Variability), which is a gold standard measure of nervous system stress. Because of the strong correlation between HRV, vagus nerve tone and the parasympathetic (Rest-and-Repair) nervous system, NetworkSpinal can play a big part in regulating healthy vagal tone.

In fact, within SRI as part of your NetworkSpinal care, we focus on specific branches of the vagus nerve, using hand positions, movement and focus to enhance connection and regulation.

A healthy vagus nerve (or healthy vagal tone) regulates cardiac, digestive and immune function. In order to have healthy vagal tone, the body needs to be able to engage its natural Rest-and-Repair state.

Stress, trauma and other nervous system overwhelm can engage the sympathetic Fight-or-Flight state for long periods of time, inhibiting the Rest-and-Repair functions.

NetworkSpinal can assist the body to naturally move from Fight-or-Flight into Rest-and-Repair, meaning healthier vagal tone, HRV, cardiac function, immune regulation and digestive function.

NetworkSpinal and HRV research can be found here.

Further chiropractic and HRV research can be found in article one and article two.

As we are establishing greater awareness within your body, in the process of your nervous system finding areas of tension and unwinding those patterns, it can reconnect to certain experiences and sensations it had previously compartmentalised and disconnected from.

In these moments we can often re-experience an emotion or feeling we hadn't let ourselves fully experience at the time an event occurred. This is a natural phenomenon throughout the healing process called retracing. Retracing is expected, temporary and a good sign that energy is moving and connection is being made.

Emotion means “energy-in-motion”, and its purpose is to compel us to take action.

Research within this field was conducted by the renowned neuroscientist Candace B. Pert, a Nobel Prize nominee who’s book Molecules of Emotion explores the link between emotions and the mind-body connection.

Yes. NetworkSpinal is gentle, non-invasive and perfectly safe for newborns, children, adults and seniors.

During childhood, the nervous system is incredibly adaptable and responsive to input as neurological patterns are being established through neuroplasticity. The brain lays down many neural pathways as a child interacts with their environment, and then consistently prunes off any pathways that are no longer used.

Excessive physical, chemical (including nutrient deficiencies) or emotional stress a child sustains will reinforce Fight-or-Flight pathways as learned neuro-behavioural patterns.
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This is precisely why stress in these formative years has a lifelong impact on health expression, behaviour and illness rates.

NetworkSpinal can help regulate a child's nervous system through these crucial years of development.

Chiropractors are trained to assess developmental milestones in children and are often sought after by parents.

The results of the largest and most robust inquiry in Australia to date (found here) involving 21,874 submissions revealed:

• 98% of parents reported chiropractic helping their child.

• 99.7% of parents having positive experiences.

• Zero cases of harm reported.