Nobody likes to get stuck or feel stuck in their body.
A difference can create a biological response, for change.
A 2023 study published in PLOS Biology offers an intriguing example. Researchers used a changing visual pattern to stimulate the brains of awake participants. The sensory stimulation altered neural activity, followed by changes in cerebral blood flow and then movement of cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF.
CSF is the clear fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. This research demonstrated that a sufficiently noticeable sensory stimulus could affect CSF movement around your brain and spine.
The study highlights a useful biological principle: sensory difference can influence more than conscious sensation.
Your nervous system responds to difference.
Healthy means having options
Options matter because a person can become very good at repeating the same compensation or guarded movement.
Health is not about moving perfectly.
It is about having enough options to heal and retain capacity for your chosen life.
When your body has fewer options it can take longer to recover, move less smooth, stay in compensation, avoid tasks and reduce movement confidence. It can head toward having a brain so routined that it becomes contemptuous with your body and starts to cut corners in how you move.
At Fascia First Chiropractic, providing an interventional impulse is a sensory Difference. Accessing a difference needn’t take up hours and hours of your time.
Through touch, movement and carefully directed mechanical input, providing a sensory difference can be the difference in getting stuck and moving well again. After all we really can be creatures of (dwindling) habit(s).
One adjustment does not create health.
Imagine sensory differences experienced over time, alongside your own healthy habits and movement efforts, that help prevent routine compensation from narrowing the already thin line between doing too much and not doing enough.
Reference
Williams SD, Setzer B, Fultz NE, et al. Neural activity induced by sensory stimulation can drive large-scale cerebrospinal fluid flow during wakefulness in humans. PLOS Biology. 2023;21(3):e3002035. Read the study.