Psychosis? Schizophrenia?

Psychiatric conditions like depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), schizophrenia, manic-depression and psychosis are rarely effectively treated with counseling. Most of the time, psychiatric drugs are prescribed to treat these conditions. The common natural approaches are to mimic the effects of the drugs with less toxic substances that are similarly designed to change the levels of brain neurotransmitters. There are abnormalities (deficiencies) in the levels of neurotransmitters of the brain in the psychiatric-chemical model used to describe these treatment techniques. The drugs raise the level of the target neurotransmitter throughout the brain. This allows the areas of the brain previously deficient in the target neurotransmitter to have sufficient levels of neurotransmitter. The psychiatric condition is often controlled in this manner.

In the rare situation of a true neurotransmitter deficiency state, these medications perform brilliantly. They address the cause of the situation, the lack of neurotransmitter manufacture.

But most people on such medications experience side effects. Often the side effects are involved with functions that are not related to the actual complaint. A depressed person taking Prozac, for instance, can feel less depressed and have sexual impotence from the medication. These are problems of over-dosing the brain with the target neurotransmitter in the areas that had sufficient supply previously.

When one area of the brain has enough neurotransmitter and another area of the brain has too little or too much, this is not a problem of manufacture. It is a problem with uneven distribution of neurotransmitters.

The chemicals of the brain flow in liquid blood and cerebrospinal fluid. The flow of fluid is determined partially by the shape of the vessel. The brain resembles a sponge in ways. A round sponge can be put into a cubical container, but it won't hold as much water in the areas that are squished to fit in the box. Likewise, a brain will not hold normal amounts of fluids when it is in an imperfectly shaped box.

With NCRP, the shape of the skull gradually moves closer and closer to its optimal design. As the skull optimizes, the fluid flow characteristics of the skull, and the brain functions that are controlled by the fluid dynamics, optimize as well.

I have had clinical success with depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and bipolar disorder. The schizophrenics and psychotics I have worked with have been too suspicious of me to get enough treatment to receive any major benefits.

Concussion and other head injuries?

A concussion is a brain injury that results in a temporary loss of consciousness. This does not imply that there is significant, long-term damage to the brain. Concussion and other head injuries are the product of trauma. The normal medical procedure is to use X-rays or CAT scans to diagnose skull fractures and then watch to see if there is any indication of cerebral hemorrhage. Beyond that, there is no medical treatment. However, even with no measurable brain damage, there are long-term problems caused by concussions, and people should receive treatment for them.

The head trauma involves some sort of blow or fall on the head, and the cranial bones must be moved by it. This upsets the normal structural pattern that exists between the interlocking bones of the head, and it is unlikely or impossible for the head to resume its original position without treatment. This is a wonderful time to use NCRP. I have treated many people after concussions, sometimes years later. The improvement that they experience is remarkable and routine. An NCRP doctor should be on call in every hospital emergency room to treat all head injuries that do not have fractures or cerebral hemorrhage.

Down's Syndrome?

Down's syndrome is very treatable with NCRP.

These people have a number of skull-related problems: poor vision, recurrent infections of the sinuses and middle ear, chronic nasal breathing difficulties, poor balance and posture, difficult speech, poor thinking and headaches.

They are made for help from NCRP.

Dystonia?

Dystonia is a condition affecting the brain stema part of the brain found low in the back of the head. Symptoms include blepharospasm, uncontrollable closing of the eyes, chronic and uncontrollable closure of the mouth, spasms of the muscles of the anterior throat, muscle tension headaches and uncontrollable writhing movements of the head/neck. There is no medical cure or even understanding of where the condition comes from. Medical therapy revolves around two treatments: 1) injections of botulism toxin to temporarily alleviate the annoyingly recurrent, uncontrollable muscle spasms and 2) prescriptions of tranquilizers and sedatives to calm these anxious, upset people.

I have worked with a few people having dystonia and only some for more than three treatment sequences. They are almost symptom free and has resumed normal life. No longer living the life of a recluse, shunned by  family because of the stigma of a disease that distorts the person's appearance. The other patients have had varying degrees of success. I believe that further treatment would give them lasting results. I hope to work with more cases of dystonia.

Ear infection (acute and chronic otitis media) and deafness?

Ear conditions have been treated for many years with endonasal therapy techniques with varying degrees of success. The ears are mounted within the temporal bones. The auditory nerve goes through the temporal bone on its way into the brain, and the Eustachian tubes, the passageway that connects the middle ears with the throat, are found between and through the temporal bones and the sphenoid. When a person undergoes NCRP treatment, the bones of the head gradually move into more optimal positions. This means that the position of the auditory nerve gradually moves into a more ideal location over time, and the drainage of the Eustachian tube becomes better and better.

This has immediate impact on acute and chronic ear infection (otitis media). When the Eustachian tubes are able to drain, there is no ability of the infection to develop pressure in the middle ear. When I was in family practice, treating children with otitis media seemed to involve treatment of two causesmechanical pressure of the bones against the Eustachian tube and lymphatic pressure against the Eustachian tube from infection or allergy. The use of antibiotics, whether synthetic or natural, was not effective. There are homeopathic medicines, botanical eardrops and hydrotherapy techniques that I used for acute treatment. In recurrent cases I employed the long-term approach, which was to change the diet and lifestyle and to perform NCRP, which worked about ninety per cent of the time.

Deafness is a condition with multiple causes, some of them mechanical in origin, which are amenable to treatment with NCRP. Overall, the people who experience improvement in their hearing have hearing loss from two causes:

1) impingement of the auditory nerve and 2) chronic mucous congestion of the middle ear and Eustachian tube. Many middle aged and senior adults have improvement in their hearing after receiving NCRP, except for those who lost their hearing from exposure to loud sounds. Many of these individuals have congestion of the Eustachian tubes (termed catarrhal deafness by old medical books). NCRP therapy changes the relative positions of the bones, resulting in better drainage of the middle ear. This decreases the pressure of the mucus against the eardrum, resulting in greater sensitivity of hearing.

Glaucoma? Double vision? Other vision problems?

Glaucoma, an iNCRPease in the pressure inside the eyeball, is generally controlled with toxic medicated eyedrops. The fear is that blindness will occur if the pressure in the eye gets too high. Every case of glaucoma I have treated in the past five years has improved enough that people either decreased or discontinued their glaucoma medication prescription. I assume that the improvement in eye pressure occurs from movement of the sphenoid, frontal and maxillary bones that make up the eye socket. The movement of the bones into a more optimal position allows the fluid pressure in the eye to be relieved before the pressure gets too high.

Double vision is a condition in which the person is unable to focus their eyes without tremendous strain. Their comfortable eye position causes them to see two disparate images, hence the name double vision. The ability of the eyes to focus on a single image depends on the muscles of the eye working together. Double vision occurs when the eyes are unable to aim the visual field at the same image at the same time. When the images cannot superimpose, double vision results. There is no medical treatment of double vision besides prism installation in the glasses (to bend the visual image into an alignment in which the double vision is improved) or surgery for people who have one eye turned in or out.

The muscles of the eye work together in a simple fashion: they have common innervation. The brain sends out one signal, and matching muscles in each eye receive the signal. The muscles contract the same amount (because there is only one muscle contraction command), and normally the eyes move the same distance in the desired direction. But with asymmetrical eye sockets, the eyes move different distances with the same amount of muscle contraction. This makes visual focusing problematic and, in severe situations, it leads to double vision. The NCRP technique addresses this problem by changing the shapes of the orbits of the eyes. As the skull is optimized, the orbits of the eyes achieve their ideal shapes, and the visual focusing mechanism operates as it was designed.

I have had excellent results treating double vision with NCRP. In severe cases, though, it could require twenty or thirty treatments to resolve.

Many people with visual problems like near- and far-sightedness will report improvement in their vision with NCRP. Athletes report that they are able to see moving objects more clearly. I assume that this is because of the same mechanism I just described for double vision.

Headaches, head pressure and migraines?

Headache, head pressure and migraines are treated very successfully with NCRP. Headaches, head pressure and migraines have many causes such as head trauma, sinus infections, allergic sinusitis, constipation, TMJ, fever, colds, influenza, stress, eyestrain, glaucoma, hangovers and poisoning.

Of course, if you have a fever or poisoning, the biochemical and detoxification approaches used in naturopathic medicine are the obvious choices in treatment. Sometimes a simple liver flush, an enema and/or colonic irrigation or a short juice fast are good treatment for headaches, head pressure or migraines. But much of the time, these things are not enough.

The head encases the brain and meninges. The head is held up by the spine, and its first bone (C-1) is known as the atlas, which surrounds the spinal cord (the continuation of the brain) and meninges. The stabilization pattern necessary to hold the head steady is created by the positions of the skull bones and the muscle tension patterns, which determine where the atlas is found. Many people find relief from their headaches through treatments that move the atlas into a central position beneath the skull. They become regular patrons of doctors who move the atlas or therapists who relax the muscles. These treatments are often temporary because the body may need the atlas not to be centered to uphold the skull in the most stable way. The body will always choose to maintain the most stable structure even if it creates pains in the head. The priority is not to be pain-free but to be stable. So the painful position of the atlas may be the best position for the atlas, in terms of overall bodily function.

Most people with head pressure have not found any relief from treatment. The head pressure is from meningeal tension, and the manipulation of the atlas is usually not effective in relieving meningeal tension. Osteopathic cranial therapy or craniosacral treatment can sometimes give temporary relief.

Every person I have seen with headache, head pressure and migraine has a tilted occiput. (But there are people with a tilted occiput who do not complain of pain.) The tilted occiput causes instability in head balance, which is best stabilized by moving the atlas out of a centralized position. The tilted occiput is the cause of the head pain. In theory, effective pain relief should be found by correcting the painful stabilization pattern of the skull/spine. And it is with NCRP.

NCRP is a wonderful therapy for head pain. It is the best treatment for headaches, head pressure and migraines that I have found.

Heart conditions?

People with heart conditions are safely treated with NCRP. However, this is not addressing the causes of the heart. These can often be treated with Standard Process Nutrients.

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