To understand NSI (Neuro-Structural Integration) let’s begin with an analogy. Let’s say you’re sitting on a four-legged chair, with your eyes closed, legs off the floor and crossed underneath you.

You would need all four chair legs to hold you up … right? Would you be willing to keep your eyes closed and let someone saw off one of the chair legs? No way? Come on. Where’s your spirit of adventure? What would happen? You would crash, and hard.

There are four primary pillars that support your health much like the legs of a sturdy chair. When one pillar is weak, you’re either using a lot of your energy just to maintain shaky balance or you’re headed for a painful fall. Either way, you’re moving towards sickness and injury as fast as gravity will carry you.

NSI (Neuro-Structural Integration) addresses four major pillars supporting your health, all of which need to be strong if you want to become healthy … and stay that way.

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The Four Primary Pillars of Neuro-Structural Health:

1) Spinal Discs. These are the vital cushions that support your spinal bones while preventing them from squeezing, pulling, or irritating your spinal nerves. This is critical! Your spinal nerves connect your brain to your body. They act like telephone cables conveying vital information from the brain to the body. When the discs decay, herniate or rupture, your nerves are in trouble, you will usually feel a lot of pain and your body will not work well.

2) Spinal Architecture (Bones & Joints). The bones protect the nerves and the joints connect the bones. If you lose motion in these areas, your discs are in trouble. Why? Because a spinal disc acts just like a sponge. It needs to be decompressed through motion (provided by a healthy moving spine) to allow it to expand and drink up the nutrition it needs to live. Then it needs to gently compress through healthy spinal motion. This squeezes out the toxic waste products all living tissues produce. If motion doesn’t happen, your discs begin to dry and die.

3) Stabilizing muscles. You have deep muscles called multifidi that connect and stabilize your spinal bones. When your spine is injured, these muscles stop functioning. In fact, MRI’s demonstrate that within 24 hours of a spinal injury, 25% of these stabilizing muscles turn to fat completely useless for stabilizing your spine. When healthy, these stabilizing muscles allow your spine to support hundreds of pounds. When they are injured and don’t function, 20 pounds can cause your spine to collapse. This promotes injury to bones, joints and discs.

4) Brain and Central Nervous System. This is the Granddaddy of them all. This is the central computer that runs your body. It allows you to walk across the floor to pick up your grandchild or dance with your sweetheart. It keeps your hormones in balance, your blood flowing with the right amount of pressure and your immune system responding. Without it working optimally, your muscles fail to properly stabilize and your body fails you when you need it.

Here’s a brief summary of the four pillars and their critical role in protecting your health.

Support Structure / Pillar	If Damaged, Likely Consequences	*NSI Healing Therapies
Spinal Discs	Damage to spinal nerves Chronic Pain Muscle weakness, Loss of Function Bone Spurs Degeneration of spinal vertebra	Spinal Decompression Disc Rehydration Protocols
Spinal Structure / Architecture (Bones & Joints)	Acceleration of disc and bone degeneration Decreased Energy	Structural Repositioning and Strengthening Vertebral Adjustments
Stabilizing Muscles	No stability for any motion / activity Worsening of above conditions (spinal structure and disc)	Active Therapeutic Movement
Brain & Central Nervous System	Decreased function of stabilizing muscles, promoting more injury. Dysfunction of all major systems in the body. Increased and prolonged sensitivity to pain.	Exercise With Oxygen Therapy Vibration Therapy Functional Neurology Stimulation Cold Laser Therapy

* The above therapies are used according to needs and goals of the patients. Not every patient needs and receives every therapy. Additional therapies such as nutrition and detoxification can be utilized to address additional needs of the individual.

Here’s the main point.

Each system contributes to your total health. Each affects the others. Neglect one of them, and the others eventually follow.

Given what you now know, doesn’t it make sense to test and shore up each of these pillars to ensure you are fully supporting your health? Wouldn’t you want these four instruments to work together to produce the music your body was meant to produce? This is what NSI does.

NSI is a system that provides accurate analysis, leading edge treatments and comprehensive care to address all four pillars of health. If you are a candidate for this approach, which can determine after a thorough consultation and examination, we can help you move closer to feeling and functioning better, closer to becoming who you want to be.

If you are interested in learning more and seeing the treatments for yourself, I encourage you to call 360-705-0900 and schedule a complementary consultation. During this, you will meet a warm and supportive team dedicated to finding out if NSI is a good fit for your individual health needs and goals.

I look forward to helping you discover solutions.

Sincerely,

Dr. Dan Greenlee, D.C.