Whiplash

ABSTRACT

Whatever keeps you from coming back; it reveals your brain and the rest of the body attached thereto, are caught up in the stress loop of a life threatening incident you experienced. The stress system is hyper activated; the digestive & immune systems on standby, suppressing the self-regenerating mechanisms. This survival loop is triggered by altered patterns of info processing in the bi-hemispheric brain which is a way of coping with traumatic stress. Key to making your comeback is to get the digestive & immune systems back online.

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get neuro-systemic control & balance your stress hormones in order to:
terminate the survival loop
empower your brain to process unresolved traumatic stress
restore efficient bi-hemispheric brain activity patterns
push your self-regenerating system back online
pre-embody your healthy & thriving self
assess your actual stress vs. performance level
discover your stress & performance patterns
ultimately resume your journey of learning, growing & thriving

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THE STORY BEHIND

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but because you deserve to learn how to change the odds !

You’ve already been through a lot, I guess. It seems like there’s no single option that’s not been explored. Why even bother ? Why continue looking for a sustainable solution ? Well: because it matters, a lot, how you live and shape your life to thrive. To do that, you need a sound, functioning body. And it all starts with the control unit – aka brain – that runs an organic high-tech device: you – aka homo sapiens.

There are countless possibilities how you end up with a whiplash injury. And sometimes, viewed from the outside world, circumstances may not have been dramatic. Some don’t even realise that their symptoms are linked to a whiplash.
 

you need your body to heal, and yet,
have you looked at what is blocking your self-regenerating mechanisms ?

For so far you may have tackled it all by a symptomatic approach. And maybe there’s even a short term relief before it’s all back to the new usual – or to peaks of worse. If instead we look at whiplash associated disorders from a systemic point of view – where the body is compared to “a sound system [which] promotes individual & concerted development” - we get a completely different picture.
 

whiplash is a symptom indicating a software glitch
 

First: there is nothing in our body that is not connected to its control unit, the brain  : in a structural and functional way.

Second: the control unit works simultaneously on different layers. There’s a brilliant operations unit running the organic high-tech device. And we still don’t really know how that works. The other layer is the one where we interfere and consciously start to use the body we got in order to accomplish something: it takes top performance of both layers to thrive.
 

you are trapped in a constricted body which won't heal

Third: whiplash associated disorders always involve connective tissue injuries. Even if there tends to be controversy, technological progress begins to make those injuries visible. A window of visibility on MRI stretches from the 3rd to max. 30th day after the incident, showing bone bruising, joint effusion and minor bleedings. Chronification of the symptoms goes with sustained muscle tension and myofascial contraction. This triggers a cascade of structural & physiological changes: continuous adjustment of myofascial statics and property change of the myofascial tissue - from smooth & elastic to less smooth & less elastic and ultimately to rigid & brittle. The degree of myofascial elasticity can be translated into images through shearwave elastography.

Fourth: the probability is high that there’s another range of hyper stress related symptoms - underperformance and emotional instability. Other functionalities may also be affected, although no clear link may have been established, providing you with a psychosomatic label.
 

it is the permanated imprint of a life threatening experience - permasurvival

Fifth: an incident that has got the potential to trigger a whiplash associated disorder is a life threatening experience. Without muscular and myofascial contraction the neck’s breaking point is around 2kg. It takes the brain - not you, your brain - 0,002 sec. to put the whole organism in survival mode. Muscular and myofascial contraction, especially of the neck, is just one specific feature of that survival program.
 

from the brain's perspective - it's not over yet

Sixth: the question really is: why won’t the brain let go of the contraction order although the life threatening incident is over ? And why won’t the self-regenerating system do its job and heal the injuries ? The answer is simple: from the brains perspective it's not over yet. The survival program which set temporarily irrelevant programs in standby mode - such as digestion, self-regeneration, cognition and so on - got stuck with the effects of traumatic stress. Traumatic stress is an automated coping program. It alters the way in which the brain works in general and processes info in particular: the bi-hemispheric functionality of the brain gets compromised. Stress hormone cortisol blocks neural pathways: the glitch. The outcome of SPECT- and PET-imaging based whiplash research indicates cerebral hypoperfusion and hypometabolism.

yes, it all comes down to a software glitch of neurosomatic origin
 

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want to know how you can get a grip on your control unit ?
want to pull yourself out of this survival loop ?

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