Research, Articles & Case Studies — Page 35

The autonomic nervous system (ANS) controls unconscious body functions by innervating cardiac and smooth muscles, as well as exo-crine and endocrine glands, through three main efferent pathways:sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric pathways. The equilibrium between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems is responsible for maintaining homeostasis and regulating adaptive responses to internal/external environmental changes. Sympathetic activation promotes a "defense" response, while parasympathetic activation is related to protective and relaxation functions.

Type of relationship between the different factors that potentially influence heart rate variability.

Giles focused their research on the relationship between the vagus nerve and musculoskeletal structures with vagal functions using the Vagus Nerve is a mixed nerve (10th cranial nerve) joining the glossopharyngeal and accessory nerves to constitute asystem with a primarily parasympathetic function.

Barral Institute Case Study Visceral Manipulation – Stiffness in Left Shoulder

This article talks about the deadly bus crash that devastated a junior hockey team and nation. Saskatoon-based Dahlgren, 22, is undergoing CranioSacral Therapy for a third-degree brain injury that he suffered in the crash.

This article talks about CranioSacral Therapy in geriatric care. It is found that well-established allied health professionals are integrating CST into their care of older adults. This is a exploratory study and suggest that controlled studies of CST is used as an adjunct to regular care my be worthwhile, particularly for chronic pain. Read more for methods used and for results. 

This is an Abstract Article Very interesting Read !

A possible cause of chronic post-sternotomy pain syndrome is the formation of adhesions in themediastinum, between the sternum and the retrosternal tissues up to the pericardium.

With  postsurgicaladhesions can help stabilize the pericardium in the mediastinum, they can also cause neuropathic pain. The

new adhesions are vascularized and innervated, generating unforeseeable proprioceptive or nociceptiveafferents.

This is the first case report that uses osteopathic treatment in a patient with sternalpain associated with an undergoing cardiac transplantation.

This patient was admitted to the cardiorespirtory dept on Jan. 2019

The reasons for this artificial heart are related to continuous heart failure, due to previous inoperable stenoses (stenosis on small caliber coronaries) and a probable previous infant rheumatic disease.

In the months leading up to heart transplant surgery, the patient had been treated with antibiotics to reduce the infection derived from the drive line.

Upledger Institute International Case Study

CranioSacral Therapy - Conception, Pregnancy and Birth

This randomized controlled trial was conducted on 58 infants, aged 0-84 days, diagnosed with infantile colic. The babies received a 30-40 minute CST session once a week (experimental group) or no treatment (control group). Craniosacral therapy appears to be effective and safe for infantile colic by reducing the number of crying hours, the colic severity and increasing the total hours of sleep. 

•CST helps in reducing crying hours and colic severity in infantile colic.

•CST helps to increase the sleep hours in infants dealing with infantile colic