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ANS Integration Flashcards

1
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What is expressed through the ANS?

A

Our emotions, thoughts & feelings including response to stress.

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What does the ANS link?

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Emotions and body.

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What is the ideal state in the ANS?

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Balance - homeostasis

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What is the particular value of knowledge of ANS function?

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Deep integrated understanding of human health and function.

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What are the two divisions of the ANS?

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Sympathetic and parasympathetic.

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What is ‘dynamic balance’ in the ANS?

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

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What is a typical challenge to the ANS?

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

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How does the sympathetic NS affect the digestion?

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

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Is conflict in the ANS necessarily a bad thing?

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

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What happens in the ANS if there is continuous stress?

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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.

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Which ANS division provides the fight /flight response?

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Sympathetic

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

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To cope with danger.

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

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

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What is ‘autonomic discharge’?

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

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Can you discharge any other way?

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

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What if you suppress autonomic discharge?

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

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What are the symptoms of continuous ANS over-stimulation?

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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?

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

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1) Release physical and physiological accumulations2) Help the patient to understand how they have to change behaviour to achieve long-term health.

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How to help with ANS balancing lifestyle changes?

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

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

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

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How do vertebral restrictions affect the ANS?

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

22
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How are gastro-intestinal disorders often misdiagnosed?

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Dismissed as psychosomatic.

23
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What is the order to address ANS problems?

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

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What are the 2 main components of addressing ANS disturbance?

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

25
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Whatever the condition, what is priority number one?

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Integrated treatment.

26
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What are the 4 priority treatments for ANS imbalance?

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1) Release emotional centres, heart, solar plexus, with their their sympathetic plexi.2) Suboccipital area - cervical sympathetic ganglion, sympathetic supply to head and vagus nerve3) Integrate the core4) Balance whole system

27
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What can happen after an infection e.g. cystitis?

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

28
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Where to look for cystitis disturbances in the system?

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T10 - L2 sympathetic to bladderS2 - 4 parasympathetic to bladderWhere nerves leave the duraFascial - epineurium of nervesNeural pathwaysThe bladder itself.

29
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Where is the ileo-caecal valve?

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

30
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Implications of ileo-caecal problems?

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Pain, blockage and appendicitis.

31
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Cause of the ileo-caecal problems?

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Often emotional excessive stimulation of ANS due to stress.

32
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What actually happens during ileo-caecal problems?

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

33
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Vertebral level of ileo-caecal sympathetic nerves?

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T10 - T12

34
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Plexi involved in ileo-caecal problems?

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Solar plexus, superior and inferior mesenteric plexi.

35
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Cranial nerve involved in ileo-caecal problems?

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

36
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Other name for Irritable Bowel Syndrome?

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Spastic colon

37
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Usual cause of IBS?

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Stress - but can be physical.

38
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Difference between IBS and ileo-caecal problem?

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

39
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IBS nerve supply level?

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T10 - L2

40
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What is the significance of IBS on left?

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Parasympathetic nerve supply is from the sacrum not the vagus.

41
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What injury might cause IBS on left?

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Falling on sacrum.

42
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Gastric and duodenal ulcers - sympathetic supply level?

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T6 - 10

43
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Gastric and duodenal ulcers - 3 other autonomic associations?

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1) Coeliac ganglia and solar plexus2) Vagus parasympathetic supply3) Psycho-emotional factors

44
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Asthma causes?

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

45
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Asthma vertebral level?

A

T2 - 6

46
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Others associations?

A

Pulmonary plexusParasympathetic vagusEmotional factors - possibly from an historic shockRestriction in upper thoracic area

47
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9 associations with all visceral problems?

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1) The actual organs2) Sensory nerves to them3) Motor nerves to them4) Vertebral levels - facilitated segments5) Nerve origins6) Dural associations7) Fascial connections8) CNS connections9) Psycho-emotional connections

48
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How can we help with psychosomatic conditions?

A

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.

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