New series! Clarifying the relationship between whiplash, autonomic nervous system disorder, orthostatic dysregulation (OD), and neck muscles!
Part 1: The relationship between whiplash, autonomic nervous system disorder, ororthostatic dysregulation (OD), and neck muscles
Part 2: Common symptoms of whiplash and autonomic nervous system disorders
Part 3: The beginning of the mystery-solving journey
Part 4: Mystery Journey Part 2 - The Vagus Nerve
Orthostatic Dysregulation (OD)
We've explained Orthostatic Dysregulation (OD) clearly through manga.
Research into whiplash has finally revealed the underlying cause and treatment of Orthostatic Dysregulation (OD).
Recently, the number of children with Orthostatic Dysregulation (OD) has been rapidly increasing around the world. In Japan alone, the number is as high as 340,000, and it has become a social problem.
Orthostatic Dysregulation is a common illness in adolescence, and can cause a variety of symptoms, including dizziness, unsteadiness, headache, stomachache, diarrhea, loss of appetite, palpitations, insomnia, difficulty waking up in the morning, extreme fatigue, and sometimes fainting spells, and ultimately depression. It has been believed to be caused by a disruption in the function of the autonomic nervous system.
As children with Orthostatic Dysregulation often have low blood pressure, symptomatic treatments such as metolidine and other vasopressors, sleeping pills for insomnia, and antidepressants for depression are used, but these are rarely effective. The reason that only symptomatic treatments are used in this way is because the underlying cause of Orthostatic Dysregulation has not been identified.
In our research into whiplash injury, we have discovered that abnormalities in the neck muscles cause reduced functioning of several nerves that pass through the neck (the greater occipital nerve, the vagus nerve (which is a parasympathetic nerve), the phrenic nerve, and the brachial plexus), resulting in the various symptoms specific to whiplash injury (headache, digestive symptoms, shortness of breath, numbness in the arms, etc.).
We have further discovered that when the neck muscles are relaxed through electrical treatment, all of the various symptoms mentioned above improve.
We found that children with Orthostatic Dysregulation almost without exception suffer from symptoms such as headaches, stomachaches, diarrhea, shortness of breath, as well as dizziness, numbness and discomfort in the arms, and difficulty getting up in the morning, which are exactly the same as those experienced by whiplash. Furthermore, when children with Orthostatic Dysregulation are carefully palpated, all of them complain of severe muscle pain from the neck to the chest and ribs.
In fact, over the last two years we have treated over 100 children with Orthostatic Dysregulation (using electrical therapy to the neck muscles), with very good results.
Compression of the vagus nerve: causes cardiac (palpitations) and digestive symptoms (throat discomfort, stomach discomfort, abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, etc.), which are in its control.
Compression of the phrenic nerve: causes shortness of breath due to a decrease in diaphragm function.
As a result, abdominal breathing becomes insufficient, and chest breathing compensates, which causes the external intercostal muscles and pectoralis major muscles to strain, resulting in pain.
Compression of the brachial plexus: causes discomfort and weakness from the arms to the hands and fingertips.
Ultimately, the function of the parasympathetic nerves within the skull (oculomotor nerve, facial nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve), which are directly connected to the vagus nerve, declines, causing glare, dry eyes, abnormal taste, and abnormal hearing.
And, this is important, if it progresses further, it can also have a psychological effect and lead to depression.
In children with Orthostatic Dysregulation, blood pressure is often low, but the fundamental cause of low blood pressure or inability to regulate it appropriately is that accurate information from the blood pressure sensors (baroreceptors) located in the aortic arch is unable to reach the nucleus of the solitary tract in the medulla oblongata due to reduced function of the afferent fibers of the vagus nerve.
Therefore, when electrical treatment is used to relax the neck muscles, the function of the vagus nerve is restored, allowing blood pressure information from the baroreceptors in the aortic arch to reach the medulla oblongata smoothly via the afferent fibers of the vagus nerve, resulting in normalization of blood pressure in a short period of time.
vagus nerve: cardiac (palpitations) and digestive symptoms
the phrenic nerve: shortness of breath
the brachial plexus: discomfort and weakness from the arms to the hands and fingertips
the greater occipital nerve: headaches
For more information, please visit the following websites:
World Neck Academy
https://world-neck-academy.com/en/
Neck Academy
https://neck-academy.com/en/
Tokyo Neurological Center
https://tokyo-neurological-center.com/en/
Blue Sky Matsui Hospital
https://matsui-hp.com/
Orthostatic Dysregulation is a common illness in adolescence, and can cause a variety of symptoms, including dizziness, unsteadiness, headache, stomachache, diarrhea, loss of appetite, palpitations, insomnia, difficulty waking up in the morning, extreme fatigue, and sometimes fainting spells, and ultimately depression. It has been believed to be caused by a disruption in the function of the autonomic nervous system.
As children with Orthostatic Dysregulation often have low blood pressure, symptomatic treatments such as metolidine and other vasopressors, sleeping pills for insomnia, and antidepressants for depression are used, but these are rarely effective. The reason that only symptomatic treatments are used in this way is because the underlying cause of Orthostatic Dysregulation has not been identified.
In our research into whiplash injury, we have discovered that abnormalities in the neck muscles cause reduced functioning of several nerves that pass through the neck (the greater occipital nerve, the vagus nerve (which is a parasympathetic nerve), the phrenic nerve, and the brachial plexus), resulting in the various symptoms specific to whiplash injury (headache, digestive symptoms, shortness of breath, numbness in the arms, etc.).
We have further discovered that when the neck muscles are relaxed through electrical treatment, all of the various symptoms mentioned above improve.
We found that children with Orthostatic Dysregulation almost without exception suffer from symptoms such as headaches, stomachaches, diarrhea, shortness of breath, as well as dizziness, numbness and discomfort in the arms, and difficulty getting up in the morning, which are exactly the same as those experienced by whiplash. Furthermore, when children with Orthostatic Dysregulation are carefully palpated, all of them complain of severe muscle pain from the neck to the chest and ribs.
The cause of Orthostatic Dysregulation and whiplash injury is the same. In other words, they are caused by abnormalities in the neck muscles, and the treatment is the same
This fact means that the causes and symptoms of Orthostatic Dysregulation and whiplash are exactly the same, that they are caused by a decrease in the function of the nerves that pass through the neck, and that the same treatments can be used.In fact, over the last two years we have treated over 100 children with Orthostatic Dysregulation (using electrical therapy to the neck muscles), with very good results.
The detail the relationship between each symptom and each nerve.
Compression of the greater occipital nerve: causes headaches.Compression of the vagus nerve: causes cardiac (palpitations) and digestive symptoms (throat discomfort, stomach discomfort, abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, etc.), which are in its control.
Compression of the phrenic nerve: causes shortness of breath due to a decrease in diaphragm function.
As a result, abdominal breathing becomes insufficient, and chest breathing compensates, which causes the external intercostal muscles and pectoralis major muscles to strain, resulting in pain.
Compression of the brachial plexus: causes discomfort and weakness from the arms to the hands and fingertips.
Ultimately, the function of the parasympathetic nerves within the skull (oculomotor nerve, facial nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve), which are directly connected to the vagus nerve, declines, causing glare, dry eyes, abnormal taste, and abnormal hearing.
And, this is important, if it progresses further, it can also have a psychological effect and lead to depression.
In children with Orthostatic Dysregulation, blood pressure is often low, but the fundamental cause of low blood pressure or inability to regulate it appropriately is that accurate information from the blood pressure sensors (baroreceptors) located in the aortic arch is unable to reach the nucleus of the solitary tract in the medulla oblongata due to reduced function of the afferent fibers of the vagus nerve.
Therefore, when electrical treatment is used to relax the neck muscles, the function of the vagus nerve is restored, allowing blood pressure information from the baroreceptors in the aortic arch to reach the medulla oblongata smoothly via the afferent fibers of the vagus nerve, resulting in normalization of blood pressure in a short period of time.
vagus nerve: cardiac (palpitations) and digestive symptoms
the phrenic nerve: shortness of breath
the brachial plexus: discomfort and weakness from the arms to the hands and fingertips
the greater occipital nerve: headaches
For more information, please visit the following websites:
World Neck Academy
https://world-neck-academy.com/en/
Neck Academy
https://neck-academy.com/en/
Tokyo Neurological Center
https://tokyo-neurological-center.com/en/
Blue Sky Matsui Hospital
https://matsui-hp.com/