WHAT IS NETWORKSPINAL
NetworkSpinal is a spinal-based nervous system approach unlike anything else out there. It’s a framework and philosophy for understanding how organic systems process energy and information.
NetworkSpinal is fundamentally chiropractic, delivered without cracking, manipulation or equipment. Just you, your doctor and your nervous system.
NetworkSpinal is ultra-specific, elegant, measurable and reproducible.
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Your nervous system is the master controller of your entire body, making up the wiring, the messaging system, and the control centre all in one.
Through constant electrical and vibrational signalling it links your brain, spinal cord and nerves to every cell and system of the body; shaping how you move, think, emote and function.
Balance in the following two modes is crucial for supporting our nervous system to THRIVE under pressure, and avoid BREAKING DOWN from stress.
Fight-or-Flight
When activated by short-term stress, this mode directs energy and attention outward; sharpening external vigilance, engaging defensive muscle activity, and releasing stress hormones so you can respond and adapt.
This is a healthy, short-term response.But when engaged too often or for too long, chronic-stress creates a constant state of hyper-vigilance.
This prolonged fight-or-flight state alters your body’s behaviour, changes the structure of your spine, and shifts your perception of both your body and your life.Under chronic-stress, your ability to heal, recover and grow becomes impaired.
Rest-and-Repair
When your body feels safe and is able to disengage fight-or-flight, this mode redirects energy internally for healing, rest, repair and growth.
Your nervous system does this by communicating with your respiratory system (breath), hormonal system (reproductive) and immune system (detox & cellular repair).Your resilience to stress depends on how easily you can transition into rest-and-repair mode.
Stuck in a loop
Through things like trauma, abuse, neglect or any form of overwhelm: chronic-stress reshapes the behaviours, structures and perceptions of your body — making it increasingly difficult to switch out of fight-or-flight, and engage rest-and-repair.
You may notice persistent muscle tension, poor sleep, digestive slowdown, a constantly racing mind, a body that never quite relaxes, and constant external hyper-vigilance.
Many will experience hormonal or reproductive dysfunction, breathing disturbances (shallow breathing) or immune system challenge.
Without restoring balance, these patterns can trap the nervous system in a state of fight-or-flight that can last for decades…
Read more about the impact of chronic-stress below, see Element 5 - PACE scores.
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In its application as a chiropractic spinal-based healthcare system NetworkSpinal practitioners develop a deep and studied understanding of the tension in your body, and the tension in your life.
By assessing neurological patterns of thinking and behaving; they are trained to evaluate the behaviours, structures and perceptions of your body and your life, to deduce your unique level of nervous system adaptability or nervous system overwhelm.
Without cracking, manipulation or equipment, NetworkSpinal practitioners utilise a series of precise light-touch contacts at specific areas of your spine to facilitate greater somatic (body) connection.
This increase in connection allows for a stronger equilibrium between fight-or-flight and rest-and-repair.By enhancing brain-body communication NetworkSpinal practitioners facilitate your body in reorganising old, inefficient and inauthentic neurological patterns of thinking and behaving — replacing them with optimised, energy-efficient and sustainable neurological strategies for human performance, physiological function and life enjoyment.
In other words, NetworkSpinal is about optimising the humanOS (operating system), helping your body to self-heal and self-regulate.
“There can be no doubt that we are witnessing the birth of a powerful method of healing, grounded in rigorous scientific fact, that will become integral to future systems of healthcare.”
— Dr. Kim Jobst, Editor in Chief, Journal of Alternative and Complimentary MedicineTo read more about how NetworkSpinal works, follow the 6 Elements of NetworkSpinal below.
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6 Elements of NetworkSpinal
Common Questions
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6 elements of NetworkSpinal care.
Element 1
NetworkSpinal practitioners
hold at least 6 years of formal education
Including: a 5 year full time university double degree and at least one year postgraduate certification in NetworkSpinal to be fully qualified.
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Due to its complexity, NetworkSpinal can only be practiced by health professionals who meet the below requirements:
Completion of a 5 year full-time university degree as a Doctor of Chiropractic.
Multiple times per year: Participation in and maintaining ongoing certification for NetworkSpinal through its governing body, EpiEnergetics.
Must hold a current AHPRA registration (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) or overseas equivalent, including all yearly obligations for ongoing professional development and coursework within your field.
If you are interested in NetworkSpinal as a career pathway, please contact us so we can direct you towards the best Australian education services.
Element 2
NetworkSpinal is unique from traditional chiropractic and other manual modalities
NetworkSpinal recognises the direct link between the tension in your body and the tension in your life.
Instead of using equipment, cracking or manipulation to massage or realign the body, NetworkSpinal chiropractic elevates the healing experience by utilising light touch contacts along the spine to help your brain observe patterns of tension, defence and distortion.
This self-regulating approach allows your body to process the information held in this tension and begin unwinding, relaxing and adjusting itself. Impacting not just your physical body, but also your emotional wellbeing…
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Performed only by qualified chiropractors, a NetworkSpinal care session is called an entrainment.
In physics, an entrainment refers to multiple parts of a dissonant system coming together and vibrating as one cohesive and dynamic network.
In practice, a NetworkSpinal entrainment uses specific depths of gentle touch at precise areas along the spine to optimise the ability for the nervous system to self-organise, self-regulate and self-heal.
Learn more about entrainments in “Common Questions”.
Element 3
NetworkSpinal is performance-focused and outcome-driven
NetworkSpinal is heavily focused on monitoring a range of outcome measures that demonstrate nervous system adaptability and human performance.
These include physical tests, structural analyses, perceptual shifts, and changes to mental & emotional clarity.
This unique approach not only evaluates immediate changes but also monitors long-term metrics for how individuals experience, adapt to, and engage with their environment and their life whilst receiving NetworkSpinal care.
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NetworkSpinal offers a comprehensive view of how the body and mind respond and evolve throughout life.
We monitor improved nervous system coherence and greater brain-body connection through a range of outcome measures. These metrics help us track your life experience with uncanny accuracy, and adapt your care as new nervous system strategies emerge.
With improved nervous system coherence & greater brain-body connection a person may notice changes in various other areas of their life.
We want to measure the changes occurring in your spinal & neural integrity and match them with the changes you are noticing in your life on a physical, mental and emotional level.This helps you recognise that greater performance is underpinned by, and facilitated through, greater brain-body coherence.
To read more about testing and analysis, see our NetworkSpinal pamphlet located below.
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In a comprehensive study—conducted with over 2,800 participants and published by the University of California, Irvine (Departments of Neurobiology, Surgery, and Sociology)—researchers found that:
Patients receiving NetworkSpinal care (1-3 times per week) experienced physical and psychological changes, including increased flexibility of the spine, increased range of motion, improved mood and sense of relaxation, self-reported “wellness,” and greater capacity to cope with stressful situations.
These major benefits were evident from as early as 1-3 months in care.The study highlights "statistically and clinically significant changes" — “demonstrating profound positive outcomes” across all measured wellness domains including;
Perception of Wellness (76% improvement),
Perception of Physical State (64% improvement),
Mental / Emotional State (64% improvement),
Stress Evaluation (66% improvement),
Life Enjoyment (69% improvement),
Overall Quality of Life (59% improvement).
What’s more, the study reveals that these benefits grow over time, with "progressively higher reported effects with time under Network Care" from 1 to 36 months when the study concluded.
This is because a healthy and coherent nervous system gives us a greater capacity to process energy & information, helping us to better express our authentic individual human experience.
Element 4
NetworkSpinal integrates vagus nerve somatic exercises called SomatoRespiratory Integration
NetworkSpinal has been developed with somatic integration exercises which utilise touch, breath and conscious focus to reconnect to parts of ourselves that have been disconnected.
These practices are vital in helping a person connect with each stage of their healing journey with more ease & efficiency, and can be truely transformational.
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NetworkSpinal integrates vagus nerve somatic exercises called SomatoRespiratory Integration or “SRI”.
SRI has been developed in tandem with NetworkSpinal as part of The 12 Stages of Healing framework & philosophy.
SRI exercises are body (somato) breath (respiratory) integration practices, focuses on specific branches of the vagus nerve, using touch, breath, movement and conscious focus to connect with our experience.
This process also helps us to re-connect to parts of ourselves that have been disconnected due to chronic-stress or trauma.
SRI is separate & distinct from breathwork. There are 12 specific SRI exercise for each of the 12 Stages, and are facilitated in 20 min 1-on-1 sessions within NetworkSpinal care, or as a standalone practice from home.
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12 Stages of Consciousness
Although they were developed alongside NetworkSpinal, the 12 Stages are a universal human experience that exists even outside of NetworkSpinal care. It is an examination of the human condition, the unique rhythms of life and the consciousness through which we experience our world.NetworkSpinal allows us to analyse the way these stages present in your body & your life, and alongside powerful entrainments, facilitate SRI to bring connection to the stage we are in.
Somatic Awareness, Acknowledgment & Acceptance of the stage we are in brings greater connection with life’s experiences, and can dramatically transform & propel us to new heights.
Conversely, not acknowledging the stage of healing or consciousness playing out in our body and our life can keep us repeating the same old patterns and cycles of behaviour.
The 12 Stages are innate and fundamental to the human experience. “12 step” programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous use a similar framework to the 12 Stages of Healing and attain remarkable success.
Alcoholics Anonymous achieve this, as we do in NetworkSpinal, by taking people through an exploration of human consciousness, to seek more connection in their body and their life.
Element 5
NetworkSpinal is holistic
& trauma-informed
NetworkSpinal is a framework that allows us to assess stress patterns in a person’s nervous system and precisely examine their level of adaptability or overwhelm at any given moment.
We evaluate a person’s chemical, physical and emotional stressors, both past and present, showing us the unique history of Fight-or-Flight and Rest-and-Repair in their body.
This reveals more than just the physical state of someone's health, and tells us how they are participating with life on a mental, emotional, social and energetic level.
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Trauma fundamentally affects someone's nervous system and the way they experience, react to and engage with their world, often leaving long standing marks.
As part of our trauma informed framework, we will work with you to evaluate your PACE scores (Positive & Adverse Childhood Experiences) to see how your experiences have shaped the state of your nervous system and impacted the structures, behaviours and perceptions of your body and your life.
Press here to watch a PACE score presentation with resources.NetworkSpinal can be a powerful way to help change the state of someone's nervous system.
When the brain and body are more connected and coherent, the nervous system exhibits greater levels of resilience, adaptability and energy efficiency. The armouring, protection and hyper-vigilance that trauma brings can begin to diffuse and become integrated into the system as a learning experience, changing a person's relationship to it.
What a person had previously experienced as a wound then has the potential to be experienced as a gift, often inspiring others around them along the way.
Please also read; “Common Questions > Can Children Receive Care?"
Element 6
NetworkSpinal can be life-changing
NetworkSpinal's unique assessment and delivery has shown to result in changes across multiple domains of someone's overall quality of life and life enjoyment. This is why many people choose to have NetworkSpinal as part of their life. Read more on our “Research” page.
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Neuroplasticity is the term used to describe how the nervous system learns, lays down new neural pathways and modifies existing connections.
Neuroplasticity occurs through repetition, like learning to ride a bike, adjust to a new routine, or adapt to a stressful environment, and becomes a fundamentally new way your body learns to operate.Because NetworkSpinal helps the nervous system’s ability to reorganise as needed, this care is inherently neuroplastic in nature.
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To deliver best results it is likely that your chiropractor will recommend a program of care to help create neuroplastic change in your body and your life, not just a temporary fix.
Just as we don't expect one exercise session to build muscle, or expect one night of sleep to keep us going for the week, or expect one day of healthy eating to sustain our vitality long term, we cannot expect one chiropractic session to turn our life around.
The NetworkSpinal entrainment sessions themselves are not an event, but rather a process towards long term health and vitality. Therefore, for those wishing to transform their lives, building repetition and momentum with multiple sessions is recommended and expected.
We are aware that sustainable change requires sustainable lifestyle integration, so we have built programs of care to account for this. Read more about these in the "Care Programs & Payments" page.
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Still curious? See below for the most common questions (FAQ) about NetworkSpinal, and our fully illustrated digital pamphlets.
COMMON QUESTIONS
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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.
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"The purpose of pain is to interrupt your life." - Dr. Donny Epstein (DC), developer of NetworkSpinal.
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.
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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.
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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.
Press here to watch a PACE score presentation with resources.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.
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Whether you live in Australia or overseas, we have a list of NetworkSpinal chiropractors to direct you to.
You may also live outside of the Sunshine Coast and wish to travel to us to receive care.
Simply reach out via our “Contact Us” page and explain your circumstances so we can assist you.
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Healing, Integration & Optimisation, NetworkSpinal
Press the button for information about your nervous system, stress, and the role of NetworkSpinal chiropractic care.
See the way CHRONIC-stress impacts the structures, behaviours and perceptions of your body and your life.
Structures, Behaviours & Perceptions,
The NetworkSpinal Assessment
This pamphlet showcases some of the structural, behaviour and perceptual tests that feature in your assessments, and reports.
You will also find examples of the stages of spinal degeneration and our program of care to transform your body and life.
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