With Network Spinal Analysis, we intervene at the interface between how you experience your body and how your experience and respond to life.

This revolutionary approach to wellness utilizes low force touch, which are applied at Spinal Gateways. These are "healogenous zones", which assist in liberation of a greater range of the bodymind's resources for wholeness. Precise and gentle touch contacts at these Spinal Gateways assist the brain to connect more effectively with the spine and body. As a consequence, the individual develops new strategies for living and healing;

Two healing waves which develop spontaneously along the spine improve spinal and neural integrity, adaptability, and significantly advance wellness and quality of life;

Care is advanced through a series of levels. Each Level of Care produces specific new abilities, enabling the individual to better adapt to the environment, make healthier choices, enjoy life more, and develop a healthier spine.

NSA combines self-reported wellness profiles, along with the practitioners clinical assessment, to review the emerging options for healing and an enriched life.

Research at the University of California, Irvine demonstrated that patients in Network Care reported significant improvement in Physical Health and symptoms, Emotional/Mental Health and symptoms, Stress, and Life Enjoyment. A unique Wellness Index was developed to assess these categories for overall quality of life. Seventy Six percent of the over 2,800 patients improved in every category. Although physical symptoms changed most often within the first couple of months, patients reported their overall life enjoyment and quality of life continuing to improve year after year. (Please see benefits noted by this study in the right column of this page.)

During Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) care two "healing waves" develop which are unique to Network. One is a breathing wave that releases tension throughout the spine and body and relaxes a person. The other is called a somatopsychic (or body-mind) wave, which is associated with a dolphin type undulation or movement of the spine. These waves are related to a significant increase in wellness and quality of life.

Once people experience these Network "healing" waves, they tend to make healthier choices. Suddenly the exercise, diet, supplements, meditation or prayer that may have been resulting in minimal wellness benefits increased in effectiveness. Saying it differently, people in Network care, who experience these waves often double their perceived wellness. As these "healing waves" progress along a person's spine it revitalizes, energizes, and helps the body to self correct distortions of alignment and posture. They move "stuck energy" and are a resource of new energy and vitality. Vertebra of the spine spontaneously realign as one of the by products.

NSA helps the person "inside" who is experiencing disease, and must deal with a prognosis, treatment, and symptoms. With care they are better able to develop innate strategies to find tension in the their bodies and spontaneously move and breathe to dissipate it. NSA helps the person to use the energy within their spinal tension (and unresolved past and current stressful or traumatic experiences) to fuel the healing process. Network Care helps the internal cues to become so available that people more often act, think, feel and respond in a more productive and healthier fashion. The internal communication systems become clearer to coordinate the body more effectively even during periods of stress and trauma. People under Network Care have been shown to make healthier choices and enjoy life more. Also, a wide range of physical complaints such as headaches, stiffness, pain, eczema, menstrual cramps, dizziness and many others have been reported by the Network patients to improve or resolve.

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Why is it that we lose our wellness and health?
It seems to be associated with the way we experience our world. When an event occurs that our brain determines is not safe for us to fully experience, the energy and information of the event is translated into vibration and tension, which is then stored in the body. It is not unlike the after-image of a flashbulb. Our body then walls off the offending energy and tension over time with muscular spasm, spinal distortion, reduced breathing into the area and reduced movement. Much of what many disciplines seek to correct through manipulation, massage, and therapy is often a symptom of this process.

Until it is safe to experience that energy again, or until our bodies develop the strategy to actually experience and digest the information from the trauma, we cannot really feel whole or well. The state of safety is one which promotes internal awareness and internal "growth".

Our body tenses more easily and our physiology remains set on "defense". In defense we tighten, our blood pressure tends to rise, we feel less emotion and are living our life in reaction to our stress of the moment. Nerves that attach through the spinal cord into the brain connect every cell of the body. Tension in this main cable network creates tension in the body tissues. The brain continues to perceive life defensively, and produces stress chemicals that inhibit the ability to pay attention to the incomplete "energy" or "unfinished business".

Through gentle contacts along the neck and lower spine, (where the spinal cord attaches inside the vertebral column), called Network adjustments or entrainments, greater body awareness is achieved. The body moves away from defense and towards growth. The brain becomes aware of the spine, which is a main conduit of consciousness, the coordinator of body function and a proposed location of the subconscious mind. Our posture, spinal alignment, and tension patterns all reflect our emotional reactions to our perceived world.

Most of us remain in defense throughout or lives, and the higher more evolved brain does not have the opportunity to develop its unique properties and evolve new strategies for experiencing and responding to life.

When at peace, the internal growth "programs" can be switched on because the body does not need to protect itself from injury. It can then assess if our reactions, adaptations and symptoms are appropriate or not. We can feel more profoundly and use subtle information within to make healthier choices. We can be more compassionate to others, and to ourselves. We can activate "internal software for experiencing life, changing our course, and for healing. Our brain can pay attention to the body's tension patterns, its spinal alignment, its posture, and its current state.

In order to fix something we must first be able to find it. As our brain is better able to inventory the body, it can better orchestrate healing. This naturally occurs as NSA care progresses and the individual not only becomes aware of spinal tension patterns, vertebral motion and respiration, but also even the energetic motion through the body. Natural outcomes of Network care include this awareness, and even the self-regulation of spinal tension and alignment.

For those people who have had the greatest wounds, or stresses and traumas in life, they may tap stored tension or blocked energy through NSA care, to develop the statistically greatest positive changes in wellness. This is part of the "stress busting" effect demonstrated in Network Care. This can be interpreted to suggest that the greater the wound, the greater the potential gift. That is, if new strategies can be developed to access the internal storehouse of energy for healing. This is what appears to happen in NSA care.

The NSA practitioner seeks to promote new strategies for your spine and nervous system so that you can be more effective at being well. The spinal assessments the doctor makes are matched with your personal health and wellness inventory. Allow the practitioner's expertise, and your ability to heal, to join in celebrating the wellness that is available to you . . . even in the presence of disease.

Network Spinal Analysis, originally developed as a subluxation classification, analysis as well as a low force adjustment application. This has evolved into a system of enhancing spinal and neural integrity though development of biologically entrained responses purported to advance emerging properties of the spine and nervous system. Evidence exists to support the benefits of NSA care in relationship to enhanced health, quality of life, healthier lifestyles and life choices. It is currently being represented and taught as a unique discipline, which has very specific benefits to a wide range of disciplines and is well adapted for the scope of vertebral subluxation based chiropractic.

Network Spinal Analysis involves a clinical assessment of individuals that also incorporates a patient centered education process. Through specific contacts with the tissues overlying the spine, it utilizes a low force protocol employing concepts derived from a variety of health professions and theoretical sciences.

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The Objectives of Network Spinal Analysis
A. Promote practice member self-awareness of the spinal structures, including gross and subtle movement of spinal structures, spinal and somatic tension patterns, associated participation with the respiratory system, and responses to stress.

B. Initiate the production of spontaneous, self-generated Somatopsychic responses which are postulated to dissipate tension, or stored energy from the active, passive, and neural control subsystems (Penjabi, 1992), meningeal and emotional subsystems (Epstein, 1997); is postulated to thus re-establish, or otherwise maintain when appropriate, that element of spinal integrity which promotes increased neural effectiveness and enhances the body's ability to self-organize;

C. Detect and enhance the availability of Spinal Gateways for self assessment and self organization;

D. Detect the presence of indications of adverse mechanical spinal cord tension, and associated altered states of spinal and neural integrity;

E. Administer safe and effective applications of low force believed to affect the nervous system's capacity to enhance precognitive and cognitive self-awareness. The process is also believed to promote self-regulation of adverse mechanical spinal cord tension through the natural oscillatory patterns of associated tissues;

F. To evaluate the efficacy of the above by relating the application of NSA to practice member self-ratings regarding their wellness and quality of life, and to conduct research investigating the hypothesis advanced relative to the above objectives of NSA.

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What is Network Chiropractic?
NETWORK CHIROPRACTIC refers to a network of independent chiropractic offices utilizing Network Spinal Analysis. N.S.A. utilizes a profound sequence of spinal evaluations and adjusting techniques. This “systems” approach to the spine and nervous system has gained rapid popularity with people of all ages and backgrounds.

Research has documented that increased flexibility, increased inner awareness, and an improved quality of life have been reported by individuals in Network Chiropractic offices.

The relationship of the individual to his or her environment is dependent upon a clear and flexible nervous system. The individual who is clear of interference in his or her nervous system has a more effective connection between his or her emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects.

Chiropractic spinal adjustments remove interference to the nervous system’s tension and function.

The brain and spinal cord are one connected unit. The spinal cord, as it passes through the neck and back, is the main conduit form the brain for energy relay and coordination. This soft, vital spinal cord is protected by hard bones called vertebrae. Between the vertebrae are shock absorbing cushions known as discs. Vital spinal nerves emanate from the cord, pass through openings between the vertebrae, and relay the life-force directed by your innate intelligence.

Through an extensive nerve network, your innate intelligence (inborn wisdom) coordinates all functions and regenerates and animates all body parts.

Every cell of the body is stirred to life by its reception of this vital life energy, and its reality is determined by the quality and quantity of nerve impulses.

When individuals function with a clear and flexible nervous system, they are better able to recover from life’s challenges. They adapt to changes more easily and are better able to heal and express their health capacities. Mispositioning the spinal cord, nerves and vertebrae can create mechanical tension. This may interfere with the flow of vital life force and the coordination of all life process. When these things occur, it is called a vertebral subluxation. Chiropractors are concerned about the presence of vertebral subluxations. They seek to detect and correct these interferences to the flow of life through spinal adjustments.

NETWORK SPINAL ANALYSIS was developed by Dr. Donald Epstein, who teaches chiropractors across the nation and throughout the world. Click here to see an 4 minute interview with Donald Epstein.

Now you can listen to the Network Spinal Analysis 20th Anniversary Interview with Dr. Donald Epstein, founder and developer of Network Spinal Analysis and Somato-Respiratory Integration. Dr Epstein lectures Internationally on his models of health, wellness and healing where he has been called one of the most brilliant and original thinkers arising from the chiropractic profession, yet also one of its most controversial. In these excerpts you will hear Dr. Epstein’s thought provoking insights into chiropractic, wellness, health, healing and life. Click here to listen to Dr. Epstein speak about NSA.

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