Once again I am at deep thoughts about this idea called balance. When do we ever achieve such a state. Is it a place where physical meets mental, meets spiritual-all at the same time for a split second? Lets just consider the physical for a moment. If the human body acts to a stimulus a certain way since birth, can it ever be changed. Some researchers say yes, but it takes many hours of repetitive movement training. In my clinical practice in Arizona I was finding that a lack of kinesthetic awareness, or the ability to sense their own body movements accurately was the patient norm. My personal belief is that retraining the body out of these dysfunctional movement patterns is the most important and most overlooked treatment modality. Yes, I agree with most chiropractors that when adjusting the spine you are effecting the communication of the nerve pathway to and from that particular organ or system. My argument however, is why some doctors think it is enough to stop there, when educating our patients on their wellness is what separates us from the conservative physicians. Some people will find help from many different practitioners of all sorts. I have had patients rave to me about Structural Integration and/or Rolffing. I have heard miracles happen with Feldenkreis, Z Health, Trigenics, Bowman Work, NMT, ART and on and on. I have studied each of the arts by taking seminars or by being treated by a competent technician. Were the answer lies I believe is discovering the patients dysfunctional movement patterns and addressing these patterns utilizing the tools that help reestablish the muscle-nerve-memory connection, while simultaneously addressing scar tissue and dysfunctional reflexes. While working on my recent case study through Body COREx, I am discovering behavior patterns in relation to stress, such as right shoulder hunching and right translation of the neck with slight head rotation to the same side. Without getting into all the details of the case study, it is obvious that stress enhances a dysfunctional patterns and addressing the stress is foremost. However, if you deal with the soft tissue injury to the connective tissue as well as correct any spinal subluxation and retrain the body to move in mirror image then your are bringing the body in accordance with it's innate tendency toward homeostasis.."balance".
