ANS Integration

Question 1

What is the particular value of knowledge of ANS function?

Answer 1

Deep integrated understanding of human health and function.

Question 2

What happens if you don’t fight or run away?

Answer 2

Supression of the response builds pressure, tension and Adrenalin in the system causing physiological disturbances and disfunctions.

Question 3

How does the sympathetic NS affect the digestion?

Answer 3

It inhibits digestion in order to focus on getting something done.

Question 4

Which ANS division provides the fight /flight response?

Answer 4

Sympathetic

Question 5

What is ‘autonomic discharge’?

Answer 5

Shaking or trembling after a build-up of pressure, a shock or tricky situation at work.

Question 6

Can you discharge any other way?

Answer 6

A physical workout, e.g. a run in the park.

Question 7

What is ‘dynamic balance’ in the ANS?

Answer 7

A balance between the 2 divisions - Cooperative responses to the stimuli of life.

Question 8

How to help with ANS balancing lifestyle changes?

Answer 8

Help the patient see their response is the stress then suggest bespoke solutions.

Question 9

9 associations with all visceral problems?

Answer 9

1) The actual organs
2) Sensory nerves to them
3) Motor nerves to them
4) Vertebral levels - facilitated segments
5) Nerve origins
6) Dural associations
7) Fascial connections
8) CNS connections
9) Psycho-emotional connections

Question 10

Others associations?

Answer 10

Pulmonary plexus
Parasympathetic vagus
Emotional factors - possibly from an historic shock
Restriction in upper thoracic area

Question 11

Where is the ileo-caecal valve?

Answer 11

Where the small and large intestines connect. On the right, between iliac crest and umbilicus.

Question 12

Difference between IBS and ileo-caecal problem?

Answer 12

IBS is both sides, ileo-caecal just on the right.

Question 13

What injury might cause IBS on left?

Answer 13

Falling on sacrum.

Question 14

What if you suppress autonomic discharge?

Answer 14

You become continually stressed and may continuously overreact to minor irritations and eventually become ill.

Question 15

What are the 2 main components of addressing ANS disturbance?

Answer 15

1) Understanding the specific ANS associations of the condition.
2) Understanding the need to balance the system.

Question 16

What is the order to address ANS problems?

Answer 16

Physical first, although psycho-emotional and physical are always interlinked.

Question 17

Apart from stress, what can disturb the balance of the ANS?

Answer 17

Structural imbalances, vertebral restrictions, nerve impingement, neurological damage, physical injury, visceral pathologies and infections.

Question 18

Usual cause of IBS?

Answer 18

Stress - but can be physical.

Question 19

What are the symptoms of continuous ANS over-stimulation?

Answer 19

Pain, strain, palpitations, ulcers, IBS, headaches, migraine, heart disease, digestive problems, menstrual issues, sexual disfunction, miscarriage, infertility, exhaustion, collapse and breakdown. Doesn’t sound great does it?

Question 20

What are the two divisions of the ANS?

Answer 20

Sympathetic and parasympathetic.

Question 21

What is a typical challenge to the ANS?

Answer 21

A conflict between the 2 divisions such as needing to work and eat at the same time. Stimulus & rest and digest.

Question 22

Plexi involved in ileo-caecal problems?

Answer 22

Solar plexus, superior and inferior mesenteric plexi.

Question 23

Whatever the condition, what is priority number one?

Answer 23

Integrated treatment.

Question 24

Asthma vertebral level?

Answer 24

T2 - 6

Question 25

What is expressed through the ANS?

Answer 25

Our emotions, thoughts & feelings including response to stress.

Question 26

How do vertebral restrictions affect the ANS?

Answer 26

Pressure on the sympathetic nerves affect the associated organs, area of body, sympathetic plexi, causing emotional agitation maybe becoming hyperactive, workaholic or aggressive.

Question 27

What two things should the CST practitioner do if there is ANS over-stimulation?

Answer 27

1) Release physical and physiological accumulations | 2) Help the patient to understand how they have to change behaviour to achieve long-term health.

Question 28

How are gastro-intestinal disorders often misdiagnosed?

Answer 28

Dismissed as psychosomatic.

Question 29

What does the ANS link?

Answer 29

Emotions and body.

Question 30

What can happen after an infection e.g. cystitis?

Answer 30

The ANS can create a recurrence of the symptoms without the presence of infection.

Question 31

What is the significance of IBS on left?

Answer 31

Parasympathetic nerve supply is from the sacrum not the vagus.

Question 32

Gastric and duodenal ulcers - sympathetic supply level?

Answer 32

T6 - 10

Question 33

What happens in the ANS if there is continuous stress?

Answer 33

Both divisions work hard to try to maintain harmony but a cycle of overstimulation which produces adrenalin and so more stimulation while the parasympathetic NS tries to calm things down - the result is exhaustion.

Question 34

What’s the point of the fight/flight response?

Answer 34

To cope with danger.

Question 35

Cranial nerve involved in ileo-caecal problems?

Answer 35

Parasympathetic vagus - so the problem can be at the jugular foramen or lower.

Question 36

What is the ideal state in the ANS?

Answer 36

Balance - homeostasis

Question 37

Cause of the ileo-caecal problems?

Answer 37

Often emotional excessive stimulation of ANS due to stress.

Question 38

Is conflict in the ANS necessarily a bad thing?

Answer 38

Occasional challenges are ok, persistent repeated challenges cause health problems.

Question 39

What actually happens during ileo-caecal problems?

Answer 39

Sympathetic stimulus shuts down the digestive sphincters including the ileo-caecal valve.

Question 40

Vertebral level of ileo-caecal sympathetic nerves?

Answer 40

T10 - T12

Question 41

Asthma causes?

Answer 41

Allergies, immune system weakness, anxiety, lung probs, upper thoracic spine problem

Question 42

Gastric and duodenal ulcers - 3 other autonomic associations?

Answer 42

1) Coeliac ganglia and solar plexus 2) Vagus parasympathetic supply 3) Psycho-emotional factors

Question 43

Other name for Irritable Bowel Syndrome?

Answer 43

Spastic colon

Question 44

IBS nerve supply level?

Answer 44

T10 - L2

Question 45

What are the 4 priority treatments for ANS imbalance?

Answer 45

1) Release emotional centres, heart, solar plexus, with their their sympathetic plexi. 2) Suboccipital area - cervical sympathetic ganglion, sympathetic supply to head and vagus nerve 3) Integrate the core 4) Balance whole system

Question 46

Where to look for cystitis disturbances in the system?

Answer 46

``` T10 - L2 sympathetic to bladder S2 - 4 parasympathetic to bladder Where nerves leave the dura Fascial - epineurium of nerves Neural pathways The bladder itself. ```

Question 47

Implications of ileo-caecal problems?

Answer 47

Pain, blockage and appendicitis.

Question 48

How can we help with psychosomatic conditions?

Answer 48

Help the patient understand their environmental challenges and find harmony through understanding the ANS implications. Integrate the whole mind-body system and matrix through cranio-sacral integration.