Rachael Talbot qualified in 2003 at the prestigious Anglo-European Chiropractic College. Her education included multiple different techniques and approaches. She has studied two in depth, one of which is Network Spinal Analysis. This approach is the cornerstone of her chiropractic work, and is used in combination with her deep knowledge and experience to help serve all of her clients to the highest standard.
What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic was founded on two principles:
The body is self-healing and self-organizing
The body’s ability to heal is coordinated by the Nervous System (your brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves) which is protected by the spine. Any interference or distortions to the spine can influence the function of the nervous system.
The Nervous System has three main roles:
To take messages from the brain to the muscles, joints and organs and back from muscles, joints and organs to the brain, facilitating optimum function
Promote upright posture and beat the battle with gravity
To interpret our world and assess when the individual is safe and when there are threats. The assessment will determine whether an individual operates more from a state of Fight/Flight/Freeze or a state of Rest/Repair/Recuperate. In this modern world, more and more people operate from Fight/Flight/Freeze.
The role of the chiropractor is to optimize the function of the spine, and hence the nervous system, optimizing healing and health.
Network Spinal Analysis
The chiropractic care offered in our office is based around Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) (historically known as Network Chiropractic) is an innovative approach to health and wellbeing. Using the spine as an access point, we communicate with the nervous system in order to release and reorganise underlying tension that keeps the spine misaligned. It’s highly effective because it addresses the root of the problem -- nerve tension -- which comes from an improperly functioning nervous system.
NSA and the nervous system
Your nervous system is your body's control centre. It sends and received messages constantly, from your brain along your spine and nerves to all parts of the body. It controls pain, every organ and joint in your body and how your experience, think and feel about your body. It is a major determining factor in overall well-being.
Network practitioners believe that nerve interference is the main source of health problems. This interference is caused by physical, mental-emotional or chemical stresses that have remained unresolved in your body. Your nervous system holds onto this stress as spinal tension that results in spinal mis-alignments and distortions and these prevent your body from functioning at its best.
Why does this happen?
Sometimes life just gets overwhelming. Too much is happening, at home, at work at play and tension and stress can build up inside your body. When your body-mind holds onto trauma or as life stresses accumulate, your nervous system cannot cope. It’s at this point that people often develop symptoms such as back pain or fatigue. Old coping strategies no longer give the relief they did. New injuries or illnesses cause further overwhelm. Your symptoms start to have a major impact on your life. Something needs to change.
Two Healing Waves
Gentle contacts are made to the spine, which result in two unique healing waves that move through the spine and body.
They are associated with the spontaneous release of spinal and life tensions and the use of existing stiffness as a fuel for spinal re-organisation and the enhancement of wellness.
The first wave (respiratory wave) helps the body to de-stress and unwind.
The second wave (somato-psychic wave) suspends current tension patterns in the spine and teaches your body how to use existing tensions as a mechanism for change and growth. Together, these waves are associated with huge improvements in health and wellbeing.
Not only do these waves result in a reduction of tension and hence relaxation, they also improve your brain-body connection, and as this happens you body is able to function better and better on all levels.
Increasing Internal Resources
Network Spinal Analysis is different from almost all other forms of healthcare because it works with what already works in your body, rather than focusing on what is wrong. The gentle touches of NSA draw your brains focus to the resources in your body that work and then amplify them. This increases your internal resourcefulness allowing you to release and process built up tension. Added to that when new stressful events occur your body knows how to handle them.
This is not a one stop shop, one session will not solve everything. Instead over time, new strategies will build that will help to improve your health and wellbeing on many levels. Decide what you want to achieve, and then discuss what is possible and what you will need to do to get there.
Click here to read more on the benefits of NSA, or here to read the growing body of research which talks about many interesting cases and benefits.
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