MIS 1 Flashcards
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Brain and spinal Cord. Integrative and controls other centers.
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Cranial Nerves and spinal nerves. Communication lines between the CNS and the rest of the body.
Autonomic Nervous system
ANS monitors and controls visceral functions that are below the level of consciousness, including breathing, heart rate, salivation, perspiration, and pupillary dilation. This ANS is subdivided into 2 division: sympathetic and parasympathetic.
Sympathetic Nervous System
– “Fight or flight” response – Adrenaline and Norepinephrine release – Hypertonicity – In a state of stress and anxiety – Factors that Increase SNS: hyperinflation, stimulate auditory and visual inputs, stressful environment – Sympathetic duct compression
Parasympathetic Nervous system
– “Rest and Digest” response
– Body returns to normal homeostasis
– Decrease muscle tone
– Factors that increases PNS activity = Breathing, Low frequency sounds, low level light, calm environment, warm colors
Sympathetic Nervous System Effects on the Body
Dilates pupil Inhibits salivation Relaxes bronchi Accelerates Heart Inhibits digestive activity Stimulates glucose release by liver secretion of epinephrine and norepinephrine from kidney relaxes bladder contracts rectum
Direct influence of the SNS: increase motor output such as increase in muscle tone, muscle length, muscle twitch force, myocardial relaxation rate.
Parasympathetic Nervous System Effects on the Body
Contracts pupil Stimulates salivation Inhibits heart Contracts bronchi Stimulates digestive activity Stimulates gallbladder Contracts bladder Relaxes rectum
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
CSF has a number of other crucial roles to play:
• Flush out waste product from CNS
• Provides the protection of the brain
– acting as a shock absorber and helping to maintain the shape of the brain
Primary Respiratory System (PRS)
The deepest connection between structure and function. PRS is comprised of 1. CSF 2. CNS 3. Dural membrane 4. Primary Respiratory Fulcrums (PRF) 5. Primary Respiratory Levers (PRL)
Two phases of Primary Respiration (Primary Inhalation & Primary Exhalation)
Primary Inhalation: a subtle motion occurs in fluid and tissues, which rise upwards and at the same time expands from side to side.
Flexion + ER + Abduction
Primary exhalation: motion that generally recedes down toward the lower part of the body and narrows from side to side.
Extension + IR + Adduction
Primary Respiratory Fulcrum
3 Major fulcrum
- Sphenoid
- sternum
- sacrum
The energy that provides the power for primary respiration is found at these fulcrum points, so they are significant places for the functioning of the body. Any kind of motion is organized around a fulcrum, and levers get their power to produce motion from their fulcrum points.
Primary Respiratory Levers (PRLs)
Maxilla
Respiratory Diaphragm
Pelvic floor diaphragm
These levers are also known as transverse diaphragm.
Restrictions at the PRLs commonly act as sites of restriction of the expression of primary respiration.
Psychotherapists notes that PRLs are places where the flow of feelings and sensations often become blocked.
Part 1 pg. 99
5 Mocean Principles
- we are dynamically designed creation
- everything begins at the AXIAL system through ‘core-link’
- Everything is connected to everything else and body functions as a totality
- Motion and respiration are executed in reciprocal alternating manner
- We are asymmetrically designed creation
Mocean Principle #1
We are created as dynamic creatures
breath about 21,000 - 22,000 times a day.
7-8 liters of air / min
~11,000 liters of air in a day
We move during our sleep (circulation, hormone production, cellular regeneration, etc)
Our body constantly needs to alternate
- static posture compromises respiratory dynamics
- switch out of a sympathetic-dominant state and into a more parasympathetic-dominant resting state
Mocean Principle #2
Everything begins at the AXIAL system
The axial structure acts as the natural fulcrum around which all aspects of PRM are expressed.
Mocean Principle #3
Everything is connected to everything else and body functions as a totality through
1. Core-link 2. Kinetic & potential chain of connective tissues - lower kinetic chain, L potential chain - upper kinetic chains - cranio-cervical kinetic chain - appendage chain
The different parts of the body often get separated for the purposes of study or examination, but in reality they are part of an interdependent system.
