Neural therapy is an injection technique known to provide instant relief of pain, increased motion and return of function for problems not able to be helped by other methods.Neural therapy was discovered by two German brothers, Ferdinand and Walter Huneke, in 1925. Neural therapy attempts to restore normal function of the autonomic nervous system. The goal is to eliminate autonomic nervous system dysfunctions and re-establish normal electrical conditions in nerves and the tissues supplied by them. The treatment can be used to treat a wide variety of symptoms, including pain of most varieties, chronic headaches, neuralgia, sciatica, back pain, joint inflammation, asthma, and many other conditions. The treatment is done by the injection of a local anesthetic, procaine, either into the skin or into deeper tissues
Neural Therapy is a treatment system for chronic pain and illness using injection of local anaesthetics into autonomic ganglia, peripheral nerves, scars, glands, and trigger points. It is believed to act through normalizing the function of the nervous system.Neural Therapy as a comprehensive healing system is virtually unknown to most practitioners in he U.S.. In German speaking countries it is a widely used modality for the treatment of chronic pain. Four theories are used to explain the dramatic effects neural therapy injection can have on illness or pain.
Neural means nerves. Nerves work by having a normal nerve flow. Nerves monitor and control all the body's parts. Muscles move because of nerve flow to them. The heart beats because of nerve flow controlling it. All the special senses and internal organs work due to the control of the nerves. The nerve flow is critical to the sensation, function and movements of the entire body. When nerves become damaged through surgery, injury, falls, burns, and so forth, this vital nerve flow is broken. The broken nerve flow is like a short circuit in your house wiring. Pain, lack of motion, loss of function, poor endurance and many other body control malfunctions result from broken nerve flow and remain until the nerves are fixed. Everyone knows that local anesthetics block pain. The new information is that local anesthetics restore normal nerve flow. When the nerve flow is restored, the function and energy are instantly corrected. The pain and other sensory problems also instantly improve or resolve entirely. The nerve flow is restored by the exact placement of local anesthetic into and around the precise nerves involved.
Neural Therapy has been widely used in Europe and South America since the 1940's, but was only recently introduced into North America. Originating in Germany it has been effective in treating a variety of health conditions, especially that of chronic pain. Initially, neural therapy involved the injection of anesthetics into nerve sites, acupuncture points, scars and other tissues to relieve pain elsewhere in the body. Similar non-injection techniques, which include electrical current, laser and other light devices are now used.
Neural Therapy stops interference fields by preventing the interference field from producing a stimulus which affects the autonomic nervous system. A good analogy of this is a heart arrhythmia or irregular heart beat. The irregular heartbeat is not under the voluntary control of the individual and this is why it causes problems. Physicians give medications like lidocaine (an anesthetic) to stop the arrhythmia. Neural Therapy, according to the German scientific literature, works by injecting anesthetics into interference fields which stops the abnormal stimulus from the interference fields from affecting the autonomic nervous system.
The injections are done with a very thin needle by a physician specifically trained in post-doctoral work in neural-fascial therapy. Cortisone is never used by doctors specifically trained in neural-fascial therapy.Fascial means tissue. This fascial tissue interconnects all the body's parts. In science there is a law which states that structure determines function. In other words, your hand functions well as a hand if the structure is good.If the structure of your hand is damaged, your hand doesn't function well. As we discussed, scars from injuries can break nerve flow and structurally cause a pulling. Thus a pain and lack of function can result. In falls, hits and pulling injuries, structure is altered without visible scar formation. Tissue becomes squished or compressed. Since the structure has been changed, the function becomes abnormal.
