MAUD NERMAN DO CSPOMM
Osteopathic Physician and Classical Homeopath
How Bringing the Brain Home is a Critical Step to Healing
What would happen if you blew up your house? I don’t mean you would be without a house. Of course you would. But do you think that when the dust settled, your house would miraculously put itself back together exactly the way it was? I’m guessing, No.
A concussion literally blows up your brain. It gets whipped forwards and backwards, twisted around on its stalk, strained and sprained as it crashes into the skull and the various other occupants of your head. Pressure waves exploding through the brain’s 400 miles of blood vessels bruise and stretch its neurons. The large membraneous dividers in the brain trampoline the brain as it smacks into them. Is it any wonder the brain ends up in the wrong place?
One of the most damaging aspects of brain injury and most essential to address is that the brain ends up in the wrong place. All of that twisting and bouncing throws the brain into a part of the skull it does not belong. I am not talking about large displacements that will be obvious on an MRI scan. In my experience even small displacements severely disrupt the brain’s ability to heal.
Nature has crammed an astonishing amount into the skull: Hundreds of miles of blood vessels, protective layers of membranes, ponds and lakes of fluid that cleanse and feed the brain, billions of neurons and all their supporting cells. It doesn’t take much to disrupt the delicate dance that must take place among all of these parts for the brain to function well.
Leaving the brain twisted and distorted inside the skull is like refusing to reset a fractured leg and then trying to run on it.
Yet the body is brilliant and gives us a means to help move the brain back to its home. By using the membranes from which the brain is suspended inside the skull, I can reseat the brain and allow it to heal. Of all the things I do to treat traumatic brain injury, helping to coax the brain to return to its home has the most profound effects.
Once the brain is properly positioned, the brain’s fluid flow once again becomes robust, especially the cleansing and nourishing cerebral spinal fluid flow. And once the brain is properly positioned, the strain is taken off unhappy stretched and twisted nerve cells, which helps decrease inflammation and injury shock.