Brain and Neuroplasticity

How to treat your dizzy patient. -

How to treat your dizzy patient. This chiropractic 8 CPD live seminar is designed to equip chiropractors with cutting-edge chiropractic neuro functional tools aimed at effectively addressing dizziness problems in their patients. By integrating advanced neurological assessment techniques, such as functional neurology assessments a...

🥴Today I met a professional athlete in the practice with a mild concussion. This is an infographic I have available to hand out to patients.

I thought this might be helpful for you as well.

If you're interested in concussions, we have a 3 hour long, CPD-accredited seminar for you here https://brain-neuroplasticity.com/product/206-improving-athletic-performance-through-functional-neurology-copy/

Team Brain and Neuroplasticity 🧠

Presenting our new hybrid concept. -

Presenting our new hybrid concept. Seminar by functional neurologist Jeroen (Jay) Postma. Watching the lecture and taking the exam will take approximately one hour and will give you 1 CPD (you need to pass with a 85% score). The chiropractic adjustment is the claim to fame for our profession.  Whereas in the past we had ‘specula...

🥴Please take some time to write down these essential supplements to reduce the negative impact concussions have on your brain.

🧠The aim is to reduce brain inflammation, deal better with the free radicals, and promote recovery speed.

🌎Please check out our 3 hour seminar online. We offer an essential concussion course in our online master series.

🧠 This 12 CPD online course is designed to teach you everything you didn’t learn in college but is essential for you to know in daily practice. It is especially of interest for those of you starting out in practice discovering how the body reacts to chiropractic, but also for you veterans out there that are curious as to the basis of understanding of how your adjustments are augmenting the nervous system. (We launch October 2023)

Secure your early bird price before the end of the summer 💥 NOW💥

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Alzheimers is a cruel disease that robs individuals of their identities and independence and steals priceless connections and memories between family members. It's heart breaking for both the individual and their families to witness. Behind every Alzheimers case there is an army of care givers.

Fundraising for Alzhemiers Research UK helps to provide essential resources, training programmes and respite services for individuals selflessly caring for loved ones with Alzhemiers.

Our team (Hunta Hero's) includes those who have directly had to face the challenging and devastating effect of their loved ones suffering with Alzheimers.

Any amount you can sponsor us will go directly to helping other families who are fighting this battle and hopefully get us closer to, one day, finding a cure.

Thank you.

Hunta Hero's (Jo Tymms, Paco Jimenez, Tom Claykens, Clive Gigney, Max Melville and Alice Robson)

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You know what's right and what's wrong.

Keep up the good work and think of the outcome.

Our own is presenting "Concussion - How to recognise and treat" at this year's conference in Dorking, 🇬🇧.

He's joined by world-class chiropractors and speakers, so make sure you head down there if you can.

It was a pleasure teaching all things dizziness last weekend 🇳🇱

Thank you for those who were there 🌷

We have an exciting new course coming soon 🤓. Keep your eyes open.

🧠One day, all you need to know about recognising, examining & treating your dizzy patients.

📍Leiden, The Netherlands

⏰ 6th May, 09:00-18:00

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I felt artistic today 🎨

Check out the different pathways involved in language processing and speech production.

Our very own is talking about at the next upcoming conference on the 20-21th of May in Dorking, UK 🇬🇧

Get your tickets because it's going to be a great line up of speakers.

If you want more in depth concussion knowledge, check out our online seminar providing you with the examination and treatment essentials on how to deal better with this debilitating condition.

3 hours of accredited CPD as a bonus.

Link 🔗 in bio.

If you love a cup of coffee, you're alright. ☕

"Coffee/caffeine consumption is not harmful if consumed at levels of 200 mg in one sitting (around 2½ cups of coffee) or 400 mg daily (around 5 cups of coffee). In addition, caffeine has many positive actions on the brain. It can increase alertness and well-being, help concentration, improve mood and limit depression. Caffeine may disturb sleep, but only in sensitive individuals. It may raise anxiety in a small subset of particularly sensitive people. Caffeine does not seem to lead to dependence, although a minority of people experience withdrawal symptoms. Caffeine can potentiate the effect of regular analgesic drugs in headache and migraine. Lifelong coffee/caffeine consumption has been associated with prevention of cognitive decline, and reduced risk of developing stroke, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Its consumption does not seem to influence seizure occurrence. Thus, daily coffee and caffeine intake can be part of a healthy balanced diet; its consumption does not need to be stopped in elderly people."

🗞️Source: "Effects of coffee/caffeine on brain health and disease: What should I tell my patients?
Astrid Nehlig. Pract Neurol. 2016 Apr."

🥱 Good sleep is an essential part of your health. It's at night we strengthen our practised daytime neural networks. It's at night we build and recover.

✖️ Don't underappreciate a good night's sleep!

➡️ Improve yours vastly with the 3-2-1 method!

🎁 As a bonus tip: get morning sunlight in your eyes as soon as you wake up to improve your circadian rhythm. Check out podcasts for more details.

😴 Have a good night (don't forget to nose breath!) 👃🫁

Rounding up this week with some more on how to stimulate the

Namaste 🧠🧘‍♀️

🧘‍♀️ The Vagus Nerve...

Proper activity helps with relaxation, digestion, mood, etc.

🤔 How to stimulate it?

Check out this week's posts.

🧠 The vagus nerve or the "wandering" nerve is the longest nerve in the human body and is one of the most important nerves in the autonomic nervous system. It is also known as the 10th cranial nerve (CNX) and originates in the brainstem and extends down to the abdomen, passing through several organs on its way.

The vagus nerve has both sensory and motor functions. It sends sensory information from the organs in the chest and abdomen to the brain, and it controls many important involuntary functions in the body, including heart rate, breathing, and digestion. It also plays a crucial role in the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for the "rest and digest" response in the body.

Recent studies have shown that the vagus nerve stimulation can have therapeutic effects in treating a variety of conditions, including depression, epilepsy, and chronic pain.

This week we'll teach you ways to stimulate the vagus nerve.

🏃‍♂️ Remember 🧠

"Exercise is like fertilizer for the brain"

Physical activity sparks the production of BDNF or Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor.

It literally helps maintaining AND gaining grey matter!

This weekend, two of our residential lecturers tackled in Barcelona.

Check out to learn more about this awesome event!

We have an online seminar on improving physical performance on our online learning platform. Life time access of an accredited seminar 🤘

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Your eyes merely absorb light at the back of the retina (think photoreceptors, rods and cones).

Your optic nerve (CN II) sends it posteriorly where tracts travel through the optic chiasm to the lateral geniculate nucleus in the thalamus (the sensory relay center) to further continue as radiations to the occipital lobe where the light is interpreted and translated into a meaning, an object, person or image.

If you want to learn more about practical neurology, check out our accredited online seminars (link 🔗 in bio) or join us in person. 6th of May we'll discuss everything dizziness 💫

🧠 Have you heard of the Temporal lobe? 😄

Think of hearing, language interpretation, processing emotions and encoding memory to mention just a few key functions.

Can you come up with a quick test to assess the temporal lobe's functionality? Comment below ⤵️

Check out our online accredited seminars on our website (link 🔗 in bio) and watch this space for hot news coming about a new course!

💫 Vestibular Diagnosis & Rehabilitation - 6 May 2023, Leiden 🇳🇱

The vestibular system is the control centre for regulating and maintaining balance, coordination and overall sense of wellbeing.
We will explain the anatomical connections of the system from cerebellum to cerebrum and demonstrate clinical tests you can do to localise where disturbances in the system may occur.

You will go back to practice with better diagnostic skill AND therapeutic tools.

Click here for registration: https://brain-neuroplasticity.com/product/vestibular-diagnosis-rehab-leiden-nl-saturday-6-may-2023-9am-6-pm/

Vestibular Diagnosis & Rehab Leiden (NL) Saturday 6 May, 2023. 9AM-6 PM – Brain & Neuroplasticity Vestibular Diagnosis & Rehab Leiden (NL) Saturday 6 May, 2023. 9AM-6 PM €265.00 – €465.00 The vestibular system is the control center for regulating and maintaining balance, coordination and overall sense of wellbeing. We will explain the anatomical connections of the system from cerebellum to...

💫 Vestibular Diagnosis & Rehabilitation

The vestibular system is the control center for regulating and maintaining balance, coordination and overall sense of wellbeing.

We will explain the anatomical connections of the system from cerebellum to cerebrum and demonstrate clinical tests you can do to localise where disturbances in the system may occur.

You will go back to practice with better diagnostic skill AND therapeutic tools.

🌄 Did you know that exposing yourself to natural light first thing in the morning improves your circadian rhythm and sleep as a result?

By increasing light exposure early on the day, your cortisol and adrenaline levels peak around late morning. Usually a time of the day we love to be focused and high performing.

When the evening arrives these levels drop and melatonin can rise. This in turn makes us sleepy. You will fall asleep quicker and are less likely to wake up during the night.

That's one reason I always take out the dogs as soon as I wake up.

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Your brain loves exercise!

Researchers from the University of South Australia are calling for exercise to be a mainstay approach for managing depression as a new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine shows that physical activity is 1.5x more effective than counselling or the leading medications .

This new study reviewed 97 reviews, including 128,199 participants.
It shows that physical activity is extremely beneficial for improving symptoms of depression, anxiety, and distress.

Higher intensity exercise had greater improvements for depression and anxiety, while longer durations had smaller effects when compared to short and mid-duration bursts.

Perhaps consider a local HIIT or CrossFit class to help you with your mental health.

You can find your local CrossFit gym on crossfit.com at the right top "find a gym".

If you are close to Leiden 🇳🇱 is the place to go. If you're in Kent 🇬🇧 head to .hunta. If you're in Sitges 🇪🇸 all the way.

Keep moving folks 👊

# holistic

🧠 If there is one thing you think of when we say "parietal lobe"... What would it be? 🤔

🙋🏼‍♂️ I'm guessing most of you would say: sensory!

👌 You'd be absolutely right. Somatosensory to be precise.

ℹ️ Touch, temperature, nociception (usually perceived as pain), object texture, vibration, etc. All this information from the body to the brain is processed and interpreted in the somatosensory cortex.

👉 Do you know of a single quick test to assess functionality? Comment below or find out later this week on this page.

🏃‍♂️ Can't wait to learn all about the brain? Head to our website (link 🔗 in bio) and download the 6hr CPD accredited seminar: "Introduction to Functional Neurology". The first in our 4 part essential series.

🧠 This week we'll talk a little bit about the brain. Cerebral cortex specially.

The frontal lobe, which includes the prefrontal cortex, is the last to develop.

It's part of the telencephalon (secondary brain vesicle) which in turn is an extension of the prosencephalon (primary brain vesicle).

Swipe for it's functional areas and to learn some of its actions.

Do you know a test to assess the functionality of the motor cortex?
Comment below ⬇️

Keep an eye 👀 on this profile to learn more or head to our online seminars available to download giving you life time access AND accredited CPD points. Link 🔗 in bio.

👃 Did you know that the way you breath impacts your mental and physical health?

🧠 Over the next few posts, we're going to share some of it's well, and lesser known benefits.

If you can't wait or want to watch an hour's free CPD accredited seminar, head to our website https://brain-neuroplasticity.com/learn-online/ right now 👍🏼. Scroll through the online seminars we offer and be amazed by the importance of nasal breathing.

➡️ More seminars available.