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The comparison of the therapeutic massage with the craniosacral method in treating the pain syndrome of the cranial part of the spine
Miszewski Waldemar, Miszewska Agnieszka, Śniegocki Maciej, Siedlecki Zygmunt, Grzyb Sebastian, Siminska Joanna, Pietkun Katarzyna, Głowacka Iwona, Nowacka Krystyna, Hagner WojciechCurriculums:
Massage has been used for several thousand years at least, aiming at relief in suffering and decreasing all kinds of ailments, including health problems with the cervical vertebrae.
Craniosacral therapy is quite a new method of treatment since it was founded in the first half of the 20th century. It is different from other methods because it treats energetic changes and lessens the pathological tension in the fascia. Whereas, other methods used by physiotherapists begin working with the patient much later, after functional changes have advanced – contractures or structural degenerations, which cannot be fully removed. And the organism will not be able to come back to full efficiency.
Pains of the cervical part of the spine occur quite often in modern societies, including the Polish one. What is more, this troubles younger and younger people.
The results of the research conducted on two groups of twenty people, which were described by Method T – Student, proved that both the therapeutic massage and the craniosacral therapy are effective ways of treating the pain syndrome of the cranial part of the spine.
New role identified for scars at the site of injured spinal cord
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeCurriculums:
For decades, it was thought that scar-forming cells called astrocytes were responsible for blocking neuronal regrowth across the level of spinal cord injury, but recent findings challenge this idea. According to a new mouse study, astrocyte scars may actually be required for repair and regrowth following spinal cord injury.
Gut bacteria regulate nerve fibre insulation
Mo CostandiCurriculums:
Research suggests that gut bacteria may directly affect brain structure and function, offering new ways to treat multiple sclerosis and psychiatric conditions. The surprising new findings, published today in the journal Translational Psychiatry, provide what is perhaps the strongest evidence yet that gut bacteria can have a direct physical effect on the brain, and suggest that it may one day be possible to treat debilitating demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and even psychiatric disorders, by altering the composition of the gut’s microbial menagerie in some way or another.
Kraniosakralni Terapie
Helena TouskovaCurriculums:
CST and Upledger Institute in a Czech lifestyle magazine
How the brain processes emotions
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCurriculums:
Neuroscientists identify circuits that could play a role in mental illnesses, including depression. A new study reveals how two populations of neurons in the brain contribute to the brain's inability to correctly assign emotional associations to events. Learning how this information is routed and misrouted could shed light on mental illnesses including depression, addiction, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder.
A Sensitive Subject
Sonia FernandezCurriculums:
UCSB researchers catalog for the first time patterns of vibration on the skin of the hand that are part of how we sense the world through touch
New Research will Change the Way We Think About Depression. (Finally!)
Hey SigmundCurriculums:
The researchers found that depression affects the whole body on a cellular level. When we change the way we think about depression – as an illness of the whole body, not just an illness of the mind – we open up new possibilities for treatment. The body can heal and so can the mind.
Sixth Sense: Science begins to Explain How We Sense Electric Fields
The Mind UnleasedCurriculums:
Scientists are starting to figure out what is going on inside our cells when we sense electrical fields.
Involvement of astrocytes in neurovascular communication
M. Nuriya*, H. HiraseCurriculums:
Abstract: Neuroscientists suggest possible functional roles of astrocytes including astrocytic modulation of the vasculature.
Vascular basement membranes as pathways for the passage of fluid into and out of the brain
Alan W. J. Morris · Matthew MacGregor Sharp · Nazira J. Albargothy · Rute Fernandes1 · Cheryl A. Hawkes3 · Ajay Verma · Roy O. Weller1 · Roxana O. CarareCurriculums:
The objective of this study is to differentiate the cerebral
vascular basement membrane pathways by which fluid passes out of the brain from
the pathway by which CSF enters the brain.
In the absence of conventional lymphatics, drainage of
interstitial fluid and solutes from the brain parenchyma to cervical lymph
nodes is along basement membranes in the walls of cerebral capillaries and
tunica media of arteries. Perivascular pathways are also involved in the entry
of CSF into the brain by the convective influx/ glymphatic system.
Experiment 1: 0.5 µl
of soluble biotinylated or fluorescent Aβ, or 1 µl 15 nm gold nanoparticles was
injected into the mouse hippocampus and their distributions determined at 5 min
by transmission electron microscopy. Aβ was distributed within the
extracellular spaces of the hippocampus and within basement membranes of
capillaries and tunica media of arteries. Nanoparticles did not enter capillary
basement membranes from the extracellular spaces. Experiment 2: 2 µl of 15 nm
nanoparticles were injected into mouse CSF. Within 5min, groups of
nanoparticles were present in the pial-glial basement membrane on the outer
aspect of cortical arteries between the investing layer of pia mater and the
glia limitans. The results of this study and previous research suggest that cerebral
vascular basement membranes form the pathways by which fluid passes into and
out of the brain but that different basement membrane layers are involved. The
significance of these findings for neuroimmunology, Alzheimer’s disease, drug
delivery to the brain and the concept of the Virchow–Robin space are discussed.