#neurodynamics

fico pensando, será que foi apenas um sonho? será que não significou nada?

tu prometeu ficar, disse que faria mas não fez, que por mim voltaria mas você se foi.

eu sinto sua falta todos os dias, sinto falta até do seu roncado do outro lado da linha. tu ficava comigo até as crises de ansiedade, pânico passar...

me trouxe tantos sorrisos e momentos felizes. vivemos intensamente um ano.

foram tantos planos... e agora tô chorando.

eu sei que muitas pessoas disseram o oposto sobre você, mas eu pude te conhecer de verdade, eu vi seu rosto, vi o verdadeiro B, que sempre acreditei, porém nunca toquei fisicamente.

sinto tanto tua falta. tanto que dói.

By Arjuwan Lakkdawala

Ink in the Internet

Humans began with hand tools, the simplest being rocks and then later spears. Present day technology has come a shockingly long way from the Stone Age.

But the big question is…where is it going? I won’t say where it will end? Because movies and books about dystopian societies have already predicted this many times. That at some point world war 3 will break out and nukes will bring the end of technology and society as we know it.

I’m thinking where technology will be in 20 or 30 years in terms of advancement.

In my previous article I vaguely mentioned people being concerned with Artificial Intelligence outsmarting humans, and making their contribution to the further development of the human race obsolete.

And so people might think of becoming cyborgs to keep up with AI.

The idea of giving up our brains or even half of it to machines sounds absolutely ridiculous to me. But I see indeed a road going in that direction.

Some entrepreneurs are seriously endorsing the merging of HI and AI.

Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence.

The article in The Atlantic ‘What will our lives be like as cyborgs?’ by Tim O’Reilly speaks at length about the augmentation of the human mind and body by AI and machines.

We are on the brink of a big change and it’s definitely going to be the digital takeover of our world.

The movie The Matrix has a good analogy to explain what we are experiencing.

In it the lead character Neo discovers the world he is living in is a simulation, everything is an illusion, a sensory augmentation, to make the ultimate virtual alternative reality.

The grim real picture is that humans are sustained in tubes and only their minds are free in the sensory fake world.

If you are one of the people still not fully aware of the rapidly growing digitization of the world, then you might have a Neo moment, by waking up to realise the world is becoming less detached from reality and more an alternative reality.

People are identifying according to their imagination rather than orientation. There is overwhelming reliance on artificial intelligence in not just the computation of big data. But applications are coming up for even the most trivial mental and physical tasks.

Another analogy is in the movie The Truman Show, where Jim Carrey is watched his whole life as he lives in a fake world.

There is a camera peeping at him from every angle, his life events are orchestrated.

The hundreds of algorithms that pick up data from our every digital interaction, and the companies using them to gain big data, and then manipulate the information for sales in advertising, or to convince us that merging with AI even to a physical level is safe, are sort of controlling and monitoring us like in the movie.

This breach of privacy is a nightmare we are living and participating in whether we know it or not.

FaceApp which went viral, ages and changes people’s features. The altered images are so realistic, so are the Deepfake videos of people saying things they never said.

The digital world is spiralling out of control, and so is the intrusion of technology on our lives.

Recently the famous technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer, Elon Musk unveiled threads that can be implanted in the human brain, his intentions as he says is to help those who have body paralysis to control things with their thoughts. It would improve the lives of those who accept it. But the safety of the threads is still to be officially certified.

His company NeuraLink wants to merge neuroscience with computer science.

I don’t think anyone can question the relevance of this technology with sufferers of paralysis.

But can the epidemic of losing jobs to Artificial Intelligence in the not so distant future pressure underprivileged job seekers, or over ambitious technology enthusiast to experiment with possibly advanced versions of the threads or other sophisticated machines to merge directly with our brains?

I think we can clearly see the road open to the next take over from AI to cyborgs.

I don’t endorse becoming cyborgs, no machine can compete with the human brain. And I don’t think it’s possible to temper with the brain physically without damaging it.

2-day course

14PE credits with the CMTBC:

Active and Passive approaches to Treating Mechanical Deformation of Nerve Tissue

Manual Therapy and specifically Massage Therapy in BC is traditionally seen as a passive method of treatment for muscles and joints for the relief of painful conditions. We are taught to release fascia and muscles, press on knots and mobilize stuck joints. We do this by pushing, pulling and twisting these tissues without great thought to the underlying reasons that these body parts are feeling restricted and tight. Most of the underlying methods that we use in our toolbox are developed on a poor or even non-existent foundation: Castles in the sky if you will. What I propose is an approach to these people’s painful conditions that put the nervous system first. Specifically, I’m looking at pain that originates from a mechanical deformation of nerve tissue and that can change with position or movement. It is important here to look at the origin of the painful experience as opposed to cause. What do I mean by that? By origin, I mean it as the point or place where something begins, arises, or is derived. With pain there are only four origins where pain may arise from. Cause, on the other hand, is something that brings about an effect or a result. To look for the cause of someone's pain can result in thousands of reasons each reason giving little illumination on how to proceed with treatments. Alternatively, the origins of pain give us a clearer path to resolution.

From Barrett Dorko the originator of Simple Contact:

“Almost without exception therapists interviewing a patient in pain begin to try and figure out how this patient came to be the way that they are. They work to create a story that explains this and then search for evidence. This is called looking for the cause, and I think it’s a tremendous waste of time. It’s a great black hole, and I suggest you stop doing this as soon as you possibly can.”

I find that if you understand the four origins of pain you will have the best chance of success with your patients. Specifically, I would like to look at pain that originates in the mechanical deformation of nervous tissue. This type of pain is an abnormal neurodynamic and can be changed with position or movement. If the mechanical stress on the nerve is not corrected it can result in neuritis or even a neuroma.

What I hope to achieve with this course is to provide my students with a way to better understand how painful conditions arise and how we can successfully treat these conditions with passive movements that target peripheral nerves and active movements that empower the patient to help themselves achieve a resolution of their pain. This active treatment is based on Barrett Dorko’s Simple Contact. An approach and method of treatment that attempts to remove the barriers of self-correction. With simple hand placements, we let the patient guide the movement towards unloading mechanically deformed nerve tissues in the body. This is achieved by allowing ideomotion to express itself. This may resemble other treatments such as fascial unwinding or Cranial Sacral Therapy but is based on a stronger base of plausibility and has greater outcome predictability.

The second part of the course looks at passive treatments that are based on Neurodynamics. Neurodynamics is a method popularized by David Buttler and Michael Shacklock who are two prominent Physios from Australia. Concurrently, here in BC, a very similar method called End Range Loading was developed by David DeCamimilis DC. These methods are well researched as Manual Therapies go.Learning Outcomes for Neurocentric Approach to Persistent Pain.

The course is hosted by :

CDI College South Surrey

Unit 112, 14928 56th Ave ( Hwy 10 ), Surrey

Coffee and snacks will be provided for you both days

Outcomes of this course:

• Identify the difference between pain causes and origins

• Learn how the four origins of pain help us understand pain physiology

• Introduction to what ideomotion is in a pain resolution context

• Be able to better assess people in pain and use that

assessment in a manual therapy interaction

• Be able to perform a neurodynamic test and use it in

decision-making process

• Learn how the small skills of nonspecific effects, culture