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Frequently Asked Questions FAQs
SECTION 1 - STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS
Including
headaches, upper neck pain, shoulder pain, mid back pain, low back pain,
scoliosis, concussions or head traumas, jaw/TMJ pain or tensions, coccyx
injuries (hard fall on the butt), hip problems, one leg shorter than the
other and repetitive injuries.
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I always seem to have tightness and pain between
my shoulder blades. Massage and chiropractic only temporarily
help. How can N.O.T. help me?
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I always have tight or
restricted shoulders. I have tried different modalities but
they only help temporarily. What could you do for me that may
be more permanent?
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When I stand in front of
a mirror, I can see that my head, shoulders and pelvis look
uneven or tilted. Can this be corrected?
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I find that I grind my
teeth at night and even though my dentist gave me a tooth guard to wear,
I still have very sore jaw muscles when I wake up. Does N.O.T. have a
treatment protocol for this?
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I find that I am always so
tired in the day but at night time I seem to have more energy.
Do you have a possible answer for this?
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I notice my shoes wear down
unevenly. Does this tell you anything about my body and can
you help?
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My ankle always twists
even though I have had adjustments, put orthotics in my shoes, and
built up the muscles of my legs and ankles at the gym. Is there
something neurological that could be going on?
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Short leg syndrome
 1: I always seem to
have tightness and pain between my shoulder blades. Massage and
chiropractic only temporarily help. How can N.O.T. help me?
Usually the body will have sustained an injury to the head, which we
label a “cranial injury” (refer to my book “Let It Flow”). If the
program responsible for holding the head is functioning, the brain will
command the nerves to stimulate both the front and back muscles of the
head, neck and chest equally. With a cranial trauma, the program can
become disorganized or “off”. The result is that the head now feels
heavy, and the survival response by your innate intelligence is to turn
down the nerve energy to your front musculature and put as much energy
to your posterior or rear head, neck, and upper back muscles. Your
innate survival mechanisms do this to create a back up system for the
purpose of holding your head up. Without this you would not be able to
see in front of you, and from a primitive survival standpoint, would not
be able to see oncoming attackers!
Side view of cranium and brain
Some other signs and symptoms of a cranial injury are pain and tension
at the base of the skull and upper neck, headaches, restricted range of
motion of the neck, vertigo or difficult balance, difficulty
concentrating or remembering, a feeling the head being very heavy to
hold up, slouched posture, one leg shorter than the other when lying on
the stomach, an appearance of the head always tilting to one side, jaw
tension, and the list goes on.
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Side view of body with different postural distortions |
The solution is not to soften the muscles of the back or free up the
joints first, but to let them do their job of staying tight to keep the
backup system functioning. The solution is to fix the circuitry in the
cranium (a protocol found in the N.O.T. treatment). The body will then
immediately discontinue hyper-stimulating the back muscles of the body
and restore power to the front muscles, so that both front and back can
share the load of holding the head up. The tension between the shoulders
will then diminish as the cause has been corrected. After the cranial
circuitry or neurology is corrected, one may find benefit from a few
chiropractic adjustments combined with massage to restore joint mobility
and loosen the fibrotic soft tissue.
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2: I always have tight
or restricted shoulders. I have tried different modalities but they only
help temporarily. What could you do for me that may be more permanent?
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Right Pectoralis Major muscle of shoulder
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There could be several reasons for your shoulder restriction.
Physically, you most likely have an old cranial injury complex (see
Answer 1 for description) which changes the biomechanics of how your
shoulders move in relation to your head. This can lead to micro tearing
in the muscles and tendons over time, which is where one eventually is
diagnosed with bursitis, arthritis, or a myriad of other conditions with
fancy names. As stated in Answer 1, have the cranial circuitry corrected
first using the N.O.T. protocols, as the neurology should be reset
before the muscles, bones, joints, and organs are worked on.
Lesser known in most disciplines, the circuitry of the endocrine or
hormonal system is connected to the left Pectoralis Major muscle, which
is a major shoulder stabilizer. If the endocrine circuitry is organized
and functioning properly, the left Pectoralis Major will test strong. If
you read the chapter in my book discussing the principle of N.O.T., when
the body is stuck in fight/flight it takes energy away from the
endocrine/hormonal system. Since most people have had at least one
cranial injury that the body could not reset on its own, most people are
stuck in the fight/flight mode. Therefore most people’s endocrine
neurology is in jeopardy, hence producing a weak left Pectoralis Major
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Toxicity of the body from years of ingesting sugar, coffee, fat, bread,
dairy products, alcohol, tainted meat products etc, can significantly
stress the organs. They constantly have to overwork to process, filter,
and eliminate the above mentioned non-foods. If the liver and/or gall
bladder are overstressed, it can refer pain and restriction to the right
shoulder. Stress to the stomach, spleen, or pancreas can refer to the
left shoulder. My approach would be to do the N.O.T. protocols and the
patients responsibility would be to do a series of cleanses and
detoxifications, under the guidance of a Doctor of Naturopathy or
similarly trained professional. Then it would be wise to modify one’s
daily eating routine and minimize the ingestion of the above mentioned
stressors.
Finally, emotions of anger, resentment, frustration, and stubbornness
can weaken the liver and gall bladder circuitry, resulting in referred
pain or weakness in the right shoulder. Low self esteem, worry,
distrust, and hopelessness are just some of the emotions that cause
stress and weakness of the stomach, spleen and pancreas which refer to
the left shoulder.
All or any of the above may be the cause or the compensation, but to
thoroughly fix the problem, all must be investigated together.
3: When I stand in
front of a mirror, I can see that my head, shoulders and pelvis look
uneven or tilted. Can this be corrected?
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Skeleton Front view |
If you look at the human body, particularly the cranium/head, the
shoulders, and the hip area, you will see that there are actually three
pelvises, not one. The jaw bones that come together would be similar to
your two collar bones coming together, and your pubic bones coming
together. There are two round flat bones in the side of your head
beneath the skin of your ears that move opposite to each other when you
breathe. They are called the temporal bones. They would be analogous to
your flat round shoulder blades or scapulae which move in a counter
rotating manner, and your two flat round ileum bones which move counter
to each other. You have a triangular bone at the back of your head
called the occiput bone. It moves back and forth when you breathe, as
does your triangular sternum in the front of your chest, and the
triangular sacrum at the base of your spine.
There are 4 circuits or sensors (2 on the front and 2 on the back) found
in each of the three “pelvises”. If they are all calibrated to each
other, they send information to the brain as to their location in space.
The brain then calculates and decides which nerves it is going to send
energy through, to stimulate the muscles of the head, neck, shoulders,
and pelvis. This is done for one purpose only, which is to keep the
animal as centered (plumb line) and upright against gravity as possible.
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If the person has ever struck their head or shoulders, fallen on their
head or pelvis, or been struck/checked really hard from the side as in
sports/car accidents, the calibration of any or all of the 12 points can
become disorganized. The body will do its best to maintain plumb line/center
of gravity between the jaw (the cranial pelvis) and the pubic bone (the
body pelvis). It will intelligently do this by stimulating one side of
the musculature more than the other side, causing the spine to pull or
curve out of true center. Remember, it is doing this to maintain the
head centered over the pelvis, at all expense. Without this compensatory
mechanism you would be in severe pain, immobile, or even dead within a
short time. This is why the muscles of one side of the neck, shoulder,
or pelvis will pull more than the other, giving the appearance of one
side tilting or being higher. This will change the length of one’s
stride or “gait” when walking, and can be a main reason for why people
wear out their shoes or heels more on one side than the other. It can be
the reason why a person can be very strong with one arm or leg, but not
with the other. A “gait fault” as we call it, is extremely common in
most people, and fairly easy to correct in one treatment. It is as if
the body program or motion picture in the brain is frozen in one frame
where one arm and the opposite leg are extended forward (as in walking
or your gait). Even though you may look like your standing straight with
your legs together in centre, your neurology is really firing only one
arm muscle group and the opposite leg group. If you watch people when
they stand, many will have to lean over onto one hip when they stand or
sit. They cannot stand on both feet very long without shifting their
weight. This is a sign of a gait fault.
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Spinal curvatures |
It is largely responsible for why people can have a good back swing/kick
in baseball, golf or other sports, but a poor fore swing. Of course if
the gait fault is the reverse, they will have a good fore swing but a
less than excellent back swing. It can be the cause of repetitive
sprains, strains, muscle tightness, and spinal curvatures.
Many people who present with a minor curvature in their spine are being
misdiagnosed with having a “scoliosis”. In medical literature, about 85%
of these are labeled as “idiopathic scoliosis”. Idiopathic literally
translates into “don’t know”!
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Spine-side view |
X-ray of scoliosis |
I find it very disturbing that information founded by chiropractors and
chiropractic kinesiologists regarding the treatment of the body is being
purposely ignored by the mainstream health “authorities”. Yet this same
mainstream group can justify breaking segments of the spine, inserting
rods into children to straighten the “appearance” of the spine (but
really not addressing the “cause” as I have done) for a condition which
is 85% idiopathic. They shouldn’t tamper with it if they don’t know or
are refusing to listen to other approaches outside of their box of
thinking.
Phases of walking gait
Please understand that there are cases of
severe spinal malformations from genetic defects, etc, but more needs to
be learned by parents and doctors alike before going to the most extreme
treatment first.
4: I find that I grind my
teeth at night and even though my dentist gave me a tooth guard to wear,
I still have very sore jaw muscles when I wake up. Does N.O.T. have a
treatment protocol for this?
Skull and Temporomandibular joint(TMJ)
Yes it does! The reason animals clench the jaw is to lock the skull
muscles tight, which in turn clamps the skull bones from their normal
state of subtle movement. The reason for assuming this defensive posture
is to lock down and protect the central computer, the brain and spinal
cord. Without this mechanism, the brain would slosh around inside the
skull and spine with every trauma, creating nerve disorganization and
damage. This defensive posture prepares the animal for a fight/flight
stress, such as an attack or a fall/injury.
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Dog in fight/flight stance |
As I explain in my book “Let It Flow”, if the animal sustains a trauma
to the skull in which the innate intelligence could not reset itself,
the body from that day forward will recruit the jaw to stay in a more
clenched or ready position. This is done to protect the brain in case
there is another injury in the future. The solution is not to tamper
with the jaw first, but to first fix the cranial circuitry back to
normal. Then we can proceed to correct the jaw circuitry for it now has
nothing to protect. This is the logic behind N.O.T. There is a reason
for each correction and a logic to the order of how each treatment is
performed.
One of the common answers for why people grind their teeth is because
they are undergoing some emotional stress at a conscious or subconscious
level. If such were the case I would use N.O.T. to correct any physical
traumas, and then use an emotional technique such as N.E.T. (discussed
in my book) to clear the emotional circuitry.
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5: I find that I am
always so tired in the day but at night time I seem to have more energy.
Do you have a possible answer for this?
I wrote about the “in relation to” factor in my book “Let It Flow”.
If an accident happened during the day when it was light outside, the
neural circuitry will be disorganized and test weak in muscle/circuit
testing only in that mode ( i.e. in relationship to when it is light or
when the treatment room is well lit). Taking it one level further, if at
the precise moment of impact the person’s eyes were open, the neural
disorganization will only exhibit itself when the patient’s eyes are
open.
It therefore makes sense that in order to find any circuitry faults in
the body computer, we should check them with the patient eyes open in
the light as well as eyes closed, and in the dark with eyes open and
eyes closed.
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Accidents and injuries |
Your accident and subsequent neural disorganization probably happened at
an early age, your eyes were open at the precise moment of impact, and
it was light or daytime. Your innate intelligence was unable to
recorrect itself and went permanently into fight/flight in that mode
only. In your younger years this may have demonstrated as you having a
lot of excess energy, but over time, your body has become fatigued
because whenever you wake up in the morning, your body is thinking “Oh
great, here we go again! This is the environment (eyes open in the day)
that I am not wired together very well. Now I have to put all my energy
into just staying alive and mobile (the fight/flight system) until the
environment changes to something safer. Then I can relax and let go. On
top of that, I don’t have as much energy to my digestive and
reproductive systems anymore because the fight/flight needs extra for
protection. The pancreas and thyroid were how I usually and efficiently
received heat/metabolism and maintained my energy/blood sugar.”
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This could be the reason for your energy drain during the day. If the
circuits were corrected through the N.O.T. procedures, your body would
not be in weakness or struggle to the environment of eyes open in the
light anymore.
6: I notice my shoes wear
down unevenly. Does this tell you anything about my body and can you
help?
For the answer to this, please refer to Question and Answer #3
7: My ankle always twists
even though I have had adjustments, put orthotics in my shoes, and
built up the muscles of my legs and ankles at the gym. Is there
something neurological that could be going on?
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Weak ankles and knees |
Definitely. What you have tried to do so far is great; however there
is probably neural disorganization of your gait mechanism. Please refer
to Answer #3 |
8: Short leg syndrome. My
tailor noticed that she always has to hem one of my pants a little
shorter than the other, and suggested I see a chiropractor. My
hairdresser noticed that my head was always tilted and had to cut my
hair at an angle. The chiropractor informed me that this is because my
spine was out of line or stuck, producing a pull more on one side of my
body that the other. This was giving the appearance of one leg being
shorter than the other when I lay on his treatment table. However, I
have not broken any bones to cause one leg to be shorter. Initially,
after a few treatments, my legs became even and I had all my pants
retailored. Now I notice that the adjustments that the chiropractor
performs don’t stay and my head and pelvis are tilting. Can you help me
to understand why the adjustments won’t hold?
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Short leg syndrome |
This is a great question since many people experience this problem
and many are unaware that it is happening in their body. If you refer to Answer #1 and Answer #3 you will understand that the
cranium is the prime cause of the problem (i.e.; and old head trauma,
probably when you were very young). Your body is pulling the neck,
spine, and hips more on one side than on the other in compensation for
the disorganization between your head and pelvis. This gives the
appearance of a head tilt, pelvis tilt, and short leg.
This is why the adjustments help for a limited period of time. The spine
is following the signals from a disorganized cranial “program” which is
off center, ever since the head trauma. If one were to fix the cranial
program first, the spine would gladly allow for the adjustments, and
they would hold permanently after only half a dozen appointments with
the chiropractor. |
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