Dear David
Thanks for the references, they look fascinating and I look forward to
obtaining and digesting them
Regards Kevin
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From: David Felhendler <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 11 August 1999 15:00
Subject: Re: Classes
>Dear Kevin,
>
>> Certainly Sato' s work in 1977 showed how a cats lumbar soft tissue,
under
>> GA can be mechanically stimulated to produce visceral responses; ie empty
>> the urinary bladder. Gillette 1993 also showed the reverse where a rats
>> uterous was inflammed with a dye which showed in trophic changes to the
skin
>> of the spine.
>
>There is one nice reference in which you can find a wealth of research
(more
>than 300 pages) on different reflexes:
>
>Sato, A., Sato, Y., Schmidt, R.F., The impact of somatosensory input on
>autonomic functions, Rev. Physiol. Biochem. Pharmacol.,130, Springer
Verlag,
>Berlin, 1997
>
>> I am therefore convinced of the odd autonomic referral patterns the
viscera
>> can give and realise our knowledge in this area is sketchy. It makes the
>> orthopaedic dermatome/myotome explanation look like a 13th century map of
>> the universe.
>
>I found something very interesting in a book (Medical Acupuncture by J.
>Filshie and A. White, Churchill Livingstone 1998, ISBN 0443049769). In the
>chapter on segmental acupuncture they discussed what they called secondary
>segmental relations.
>
>These secondary segmental relations arise due to the anatomy and physiology
>of the lateral horn, which is responsible for sympathetic innervation. The
>lateral horn is divided in three parts and the part called the lateral
>column has some very interesting features.
>
>The lateral column has the following connections, where effects on one
>segment affects the other and that goes both ways.
>
>CNS ANS (L)
>C8-T2 C1-C2
>T2-T4 C3-C4
>T5-T6 C5-C6
>T7-T9 C7-C8
>T10-T11 L3-L4
>T12-L2 L5-S2
>
>This may be a part of the explanation to why one often sees distal effects
>of mobilisations of the spine.
>
>All the best,
>
>David
>
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