#<-not the original singular newspaper article but a modern one that sources the article and then conjectures

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the "blue used to be a girl color and pink used to be a boy color until after ww2" factoid is so bizarre. it's based on one singular newspaper article... and besides that you can find more on pink being a girl color and blue being a boy color pre-ww2. who comes up with this stuff

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24-Hour News Cycle

Unless a pinch of research has been done, the term 24-Hour News Cycle is typically not communicated in regular discourse. It is a truism however to state that the 24-Hour News Cycle is ubiquitously recognizable for each and every technologically modern individual, in this present age. Turn on the TV, there it is. Tap a social media app – Twitter, Facebook, etc. – and there it is. Open any online news site and there it is. Quite literally, the 24-Hour News Cycle is the omnipotent, dynamic, ever-changing God of both the congregation and the dissemination of information.

The 24-Hour News Cycle is usually referred to for its perpetual presentation through mass media companies like CNN and Fox News, especially their around-the-clock, rotating television news briefings and analysis. Regardless of how it’s seen, the 24-Hour News Cycle, as defined by David A Logan, is “a beast with a voracious appetite for both quantity of ‘content’ and speed of delivery” that stresses journalist to be first, rather than right. [1] In other words, the 24-Hour News Cycle is a conceptual term describing the phenomena, created at the inception of the internet due to an explosion of information dispersion and accessibility, where consumers of news are continually craving updates on their news.

Some consider the 24-Hour News Cycle (with online news sites, social media, the blogosphere, and so forth) to be an innovative, revitalizing, and resourceful way to present news in the modern age. Defenders of the internet age of information cite examples in the diversity to which a story can be presented: most notably through multimedia stories, up-to-date crisis reports, discussion boards at end of news articles, and more forms of interacting with stories. Opposers to the 24-Hour beast tend to focus on the myopic issues of the machine: with an increasing amount of pressure assigned to posting the first story, verifying information is completely disregarded at times.

While there may be benefits to the 24-Hour News Cycle in its ability to construct and guide interaction with stories, the dangers of the machine are too immanent and threating. The 24-Hour News Cycle is not something that can be erased, but for the sake of verisimilitude, it should be changed.  

From Birth to Beast: Origin of the 24-Hour News Cycle

Traditional newspapers, a rarity in the modern age, was once the hotspot of news consumption. Consumers of news would purchase a daily newspaper that would report the previous day’s current events. Given that newspapers were cycling information in a 24-hour time-period, they essentially had up to an entire day to “reach conclusions about the veracity and, just as importantly, the significance” of yesterday’s stories. [2]

With the emergence of the television and massive corporate mergers like the Cable News Network (CNN) providing a constant supply of news twenty-four hours of each day, seven days a week, a paradigmatic shift of news consumption occurred. Logan highlights one of the first momentous coverage moments of the 24-Hour News Cycle, the Persian Gulf War of 1991. A constant newsfeed of on-the-ground reporters covering the munition lit sky of Baghdad for “seventeen uninterrupted hours” [3] sparked the change.

Networks who reported news at the time noted CNN’s genius as their coverage created an entertainment event; one that brought in viewers out of curiosity and kept them entertained and mystified through trepidation. Other networks like Fox News began to follow in the footsteps of CNN. At its core, this moment constructed one of the foundational characteristics of the 24-Hour News Cycle: creating a parade out of a crisis – the spectacle always captivates attention.

With the birth of a new news machine, the 24-Hour News Cycle was only further reinforced through the internet. It is without question that the internet created new norms, cultures, practices, and methodically altered all aspects of modern society in general. The internet multiplied the 24-Hour News Cycle by creating more facets of news and information: accessibility to primary sources, sites that summarize news, second-by-second reporting of events, blogs, chat rooms, and so forth. The internet also provided all these outlets on an unprecedented global scale.

Impact of the 24-Hour News Cycle

Ethan Zuckerman, in his journal about international journalism, notes that the internet and the 24-Hour News Cycle produced a new cultural habit among users. He notes that older users of the internet expect information to be dispersed a bit slower, but younger users, because of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, expect a “continuous communication” stream. He notes that Facebook gave form to the trend of publishing “status updates” and Twitter intensified this trend with its emphasis on pithy, almost gratuitous, status updates. [4]

The need to satiate a continually present appetite for news can be seen in criticisms of CNN’s reporting, or lack thereof, of the street protests in Tehran on June 13, 2009. CNN reported the protests, after other networks, only four or five hours after it occurred, yet CNN was criticized by thousands of Twitter users for its slow reporting. Hashtags like “#CNNfail” were used to chide the network. [5] To most reading this now, this may seem appropriate. Yet, compared to the daily newspaper days just decades ago, the expectation is quite alarming.

The alarming issue arises with the space of time allotted for CNN to report proper, journalistically verified, truthful statements. As aforementioned, newspapers in the past were given an entire day, at the very least, to verify the truth. CNN was, in this moment, given less than five hours, not only to obtain information, but to verify it, draft a report, edit it, and publish it. The trend of constant checking places pressure on journalists, as Logan mentioned, to report first and verify later.

Logan exemplifies this in his account of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and its erroneous reporting. Monicagate was, by its very title, intriguing. A story that could not be missed. When will another president ever be caught in an adulterous act? This level of interest allowed an email to avalanche a disaster of journalistic reporting. As Logan notes, a single internet columnist, Matt Drudge, sent a mass email to many renowned journalists with the subject line “A White House intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States!” Drudge’s findings were immediately mentioned on multiple networks, respectable newspapers like The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times copied the story, attributing their findings from “’sources close to the investigation.’” Within a day, multiple news outlets were reporting this singular finding from an individual who claimed to have learned of the affair through a specific tape. Among other misreports, it was introspectively discovered more than forty percent of the reporting from news outlets had not been factual (as no one verified the source), but rather “analysis, opinion, speculation, or judgments.” Another 12 percent outright repeated other news outlets without fact-checking, and some respectable outlets even posted the story without maintaining their two-source rule. [6]

Monicagate’s reporting errors, among other things, shows a tripartite of issues: (1) it allows misreporting to occur widespread and often, which can potentially lead to damaging public and private entities through libel; (2) it is journalistically unprofessional as a news outlet’s obligation is to report the unaltered truth to the public; and (3) it creates a precedence to allow journalists to disregard their proper practices (verification, cross referencing, primary sources, etc.) so they may report mistruths as they come and adjust them later.

It’s Not All Bad: benefits of the 24-Hour News Cycle

Zuckerman cites Edward Said in specifying the old phenomena (since post-colonialism) of a desire to “control mediated narratives of [one’s] experiences.” [7] The internet and 24-Hour News Cycle culture allow this infinitely. Never have there been more interactive experiences with the news.

George Lăzăroiu reinforces this point in his book, Hyperreality, Cybernews, and the Power of Journalism, where he argues discussion boards, multimedia content, hyperlinks, and more act as complementary pieces to aid interaction, understanding, and overall experience. He follows:

News content is dynamic in an online environment, which enables better representation of events and process in real life. News in an electronic, digital environment can be customized, or personalized, in a way not possible in other media. Younger audiences value the diversity of news perspectives made available via the Internet. [8]

Generally, Lăzăroiu focuses on the benefits of the evolving 24-Hour News Cycle through online news as mentioned above. However, he does add a quasi-contradictory disclaimer at the beginning of his book. He acknowledges that traditional print newspapers are seen as a “serious news medium” whereas things like television or online news are regarded as “less serious.” In stating this, he chooses to focus on the idea that the entertainment dimension must be considered when interpreting the 24-Hour News Cycle and online news. [9]

Pulling It All Back

For as beneficial as the 24-Hour News Cycle could be, the implications outweigh the benefits. That is not to say it should dissipate. It simply needs adjustment.

The 24-Hour News Cycle, by its design, places a dangerous amount of pressure on journalists and news centers alike to publish stories. Especially in a competitive, corporate mass media market that exists for journalism today, emphasis on the first story instead the most truthful story is concerning. Even if stories can be adjusted, personalized, and so forth after the original post, the myopia of publishing allegations as pseudo-truths to be seen as in-the-present-second truths should outclass the benefit it can provide. It anything at all, maybe CNN had it right. Maybe just a few hours are needed to compromise. Verify the truth yet be timely.

- JH

Notes:

[1] David A. Logan, 2000, 201.

[2] ibid., 202.

[3] ibid., 203.

[4] Ethan Zuckerman, 2010, 69.

[5] ibid., 68.

[6] David A. Logan, 2000, 206-208.

[7] Ethan Zuckerman, 2010, 67.

[8] George Lăzăroiu, 2009, 43-44.

[9] ibid., 19.

Works Cited

Logan, David. “All Monica, All of the Time: The 24-Hour News Cycle and the Proof of Culpability in Libel Actions.” 23 UALR L. Rev. 201 (2000): 201-221.

Lăzăroiu, George. 2009. Hyperreality, Cybernews, and The Power of Journalism. [electronic resource]. n.p.: New York: Addleton Academic Publishers, c2009., 2009. UF Catalog, EBSCOhost.  

Zuckerman, Ethan. "International Reporting in the Age of Participatory Media." Daedalus 139, no. 2 (2010): 66-75. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20749825.

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Resolving Lower Back Pain for Good With NST

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Resolving Lower Back Pain for Good With NST

NST Basic DVD Training – Lumbar Spine from Michael Nixon-Livy on Vimeo.

By Dr. Michael Nixon-Livy

Overview

Without doubt lower back ache is one of modern man’s most frequent, challenging and unrelenting problematic health conditions.

In this age of modern medical and scientific research, new discoveries are being made at a rapid rate; yet , nothing is emerging to squelch the seemingly worsening state of affairs accompanying the undeniable fact that this global health condition is on the increase. Some salient information :P TAGEND

Approximately 80 percent of the world’s population, ranging from teens to the elderly will suffer from lower back pain — LBP at some phase in their lives.

Currently 1 person in 10 is suffering from LBP, constructing it the world’s leading cause of disability.

The number of adult someones affected by LBP in the USA alone is on the rise year on year, and the 65 and older age group appears to be more prone. Members of The Lancet editorial personnel, Stephanie Clark and Richard Horton, concluded.

“Low back ache is a major problem throughout the world and it is getting worse — largely because of the aging and increasing world population.”

In the U.S. around 30 percent of women and 26 percentage of men suffer from LBP.

More than half of Americans who are suffering from LBP expend the majority of their period at work sitting.

Various surveys performed over the last decade confirm that LBP sufferers report their condition negatively consequences their work, daily tasks, exercising regime, sleep, social activities, emotional status and ultimately quality of life.

The direct cost to the U.S. economy in treating back per year is $50 billion, and when another 100 billion isn is added to this by way of indirect costs such as lost wages and productivity, insurance and legal costs and impact on the family, it is easy to appreciate just how serious this condition is and how urgently we need to find better solutions.

Popular treatments utilized in the U.S. that render relief from LBP but without any long-term guarantee of nonrecurrence, include drug, chiropractic and physical therapy.

According to the editors of a series of newspapers in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet: Lower back pain impacts an estimated 540 million people across the globe, and most are treated in a manner that is not consistent with best practice treatment guidelines.

Ultimately, 1 in 10 sufferers of LBP detects the primary cause of their condition with a staggering 90 percent left wholly in the dark as to its cause and origin.

Further observations

Jan Hartvigsen, D.C ., Ph.D ., of the department of health professions at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, was part of the low back pain working group on the right that discussed the prevalence of the condition. Their findings suggest that very few population groups, if any, are altogether immune to lower back ache, writing that it is an “extremely common symptom” that affects all age groups stimulating it the more common disability worldwide. Other observations by Hartvigsen and colleagues include :P TAGEND

The global onu of lower back ache will likely increase during the next few decades, especially in low and middle-income countries.

Work disability and health care costs that were ascribed to lower back ache differed significantly worldwide.

Low levels of physical activity, obesity and smoking were linked to lower back pain.

Most people with the condition could not correctly pinpoint the exact nociceptive source of their pain.

LBP was a “complex condition” that has biophysical factors, comorbidities, pain-processing mechanisms, as well as psychological and social factors to the pain and related disability.

Most episodes of lower back pain did not last long and do not leave a lasting impact; however, periodic episodes are common and low back pain is “increasingly understood” as a long-lasting condition with a “variable course” as opposed to isolated events.

Disability from low back pain happened most frequently in working age groups.

LBP was the reason for 60.1 million disability-adjusted life-years in 2015, an increase of 54 percent since 1990, with the largest increases occurring in low and middle-income countries.

Hartvigsen and colleagues concluded :P TAGEND

“Although there are several global initiatives to address the global burden of low back ache as a public health problem, there is a need to identify cost-effective and context-specific strategies for managing low back ache to mitigate the consequences of the current and projected future burden, ”

Resolving Lower Back Pain with NST

If we consider the foregoing it is easy to appreciate that resolving LBP convincingly is potentially a challenging task that has many permutations and, depending on the individual and the degree of their LBP condition, may require a singular intervention or multifactorial approach.

This article has been written not to blame any other approach or methodology that seeks to resolve LBP, but to simply shine light on the fact that there are other styles, perhaps less known, but arguably more effective than those currently being used in the mainstream.

And, that NST is one of those remarkably effective musculoskeletal methods that has changed the lives of millions of LBP sufferers around the world in the last 25 years, and continues to do so year on year, with great simplicity and equally great dependability.

System before Symptom

One of the most typical, common and firmly held notions that I have heard both patients and various health practitioners convey over the past 30 years is that lower back ache — LBP — has its origin and source in the lower back itself.

Consistent with this belief is that therapy should be applied, therefore, to the lower back where the pain is.

When a patient presents to my office with an MRI( magnetic resonance image) of their lumbar spine that proves a bulging disc applying compression to a neighboring nerve, of course we are obliged to agree that this has something to do with their pain.

The expectation of the patient is for me to then treat where the obvious problem is, which is a altogether reasonable attitude.

But barring when the LBP has been caused by direct impact injury, I have found in thousands of cases that the condition itself and its place are more of a “final expression” or “manifestation” resulting from systematic imbalances that have been in place for longer than the LBP itself.

The systematic imbalances may range from acute to chronic, up to and including degenerative in nature. They are referred to as “systematic” for two reasons.

* Firstly, because the imbalances are coexistent and function codependently between multiple systems. The neuromuscular, fascial, skeletal, visceral and endocrine systems and even the brain itself may all be involved in the one pattern that is ultimately delivering an LBP condition.

* Secondly, the imbalances are referred to as “systematic” because they interfere with the natural self-regulating capability that the human organism depends on to function optimally and remain pain free.

At the structural level itself this relationship is characterized by the perpetual synchronous rhythmic relationship between the diaphragm, pelvic girdle, spinal column and cranium. When this is lost, firstly dysfunction, and then pain, set in.

As an example, patients will often present with debilitating LBP and at the same time a chronic TMJ or TMD( temporomandibular joint dysfunction) that they, their doctor and/ or health care practitioners have overlooked, discounted as insignificant or simply not understood, let alone associate with the LBP condition.

As a repercussion corrections performed on the lumbar spine itself for the LBP condition may render temporary relief but not long term resolution, simply because the body’s center of gravity, “the sacrum, ” depends on the body’s superstructure, “the cranium, ” and its host of auxiliary components( including TMJ) to remain dynamically balanced. And the rule applies vice versa.

Only when the TMJs are corrected and stabilized can we expect to have proper cranial-atlas-cervical spine consolidation, and consequently proper lumbo-sacral-pelvic consolidation. Only then will appropriate neuro-muscular-skeletal relationships between the diaphragm, pelvic girdle, spinal column and cranium be restored.

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Images showing interconnectivity and systematic relationships between super and substructures of the body

Consequently, chronic tensions and pressure acting around and on the lumbar spine itself will be released.

To resolve this particular scenario described above, an NST session lasting approximately 30 to 45 minutes would include, at the very least, adjustments for the lumbar, thoracic and cervical spines, sacrum, diaphragm, shoulders and TMJ.

This approach ensures that systematic integrating is restored with the LBP in focus. But this is just one simple instance of observing and correcting LBP in a systematic way. Another simple instance of the organizations of the system being impacted from information sources outside of the area of LBP is when a hamstring muscle is in a state of chronic tension.

Now, the cause of the tight hamstring may have been structurally induced via too much sitting, but it could also have been introduced via one of the visceral-somatic reflexes that exist between the large intestine and the hamstring muscles.

Lets imagine that our patient who presents with LBP has had poor dietary habits for some time and is chronically constipated. They eat a lot of refined and processed food and a lot of meat. Their bowel movements occur once or twice a week or maybe less.

Put in very simple terms: A chronically restricted large intestine organ( smooth muscle) can have a strong reflexive impact on the hamstring and even quadratus lumborum muscles, both leading to LBP.

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Visceral disturbance can quickly lead to tight muscles and lower back pain

Furthermore, the tight hamstring muscle acting as a tight cable on the ischial tuberosity and sacrum, preventing the pelvic girdle and sacrum itself from enjoying their proper motion of flexion and extension that occurs in response to diaphragmatic respiration.

The resultant consequence is that a tensional myofascial develop between hamstring, sacrum ligaments, gluteal, piriformis and erector spinae muscles is established, causing pressure on nerves either directly( e.g ., sciatic nerve) or via lopsided vertebral bodies in the lumbar spine causing an intervertebral disc to bulge and apply pressure to root nerves exiting the lumbar spine.

Either way the result is LBP courtesy of a systematic imbalance. To resolve this particular scenario described above, an NST session lasting approximately 30 to 45 minutes would include, at the very least, adjustments for the lumbar, thoracic and cervical spines, sacrum, diaphragm, hamstring muscle, pelvis and viscera.

Choose procedures

With NST opting which procedures to include that will resolve each patient’s unique presenting symptom pattern is a simple matter of always including certain ‘core’ procedures such as the lumbar, thoracic, cervical spine, sacrum and diaphragm adjustments and then adding the procedures that correspond to other areas of tension or pain.

Therefore choosing the procedures to tailor an NST session for a patient is a straightforward process partly decided on before the session commences and partly decided on throughout the session as the practitioner discovers areas of tension and pain.

There are countless other examples of how acquired systematic imbalances can result in LBP or indeed myriad other local pain conditions neck ache, shoulder pain, knee pain, visceral pain, conditions of the ANS and much more.

Nor is it any surprise to is not merely insure LBP conditions evaporate after a few sessions of NST, but a host of other comorbidities resolve as well. Of course it’s always valid to discover what the patient has does or has been doing on a daily basis that might have contributed to this set of compromises within their organism.

Do they sit for long hours at a time whilst working on a computer? Clearly this can lead to a situation where poor posture combinings with various stressors such as visual and emotional to predispose the patient to clenching and grinding causing the TMJ dysfunction in the first place.

Obviously diet and hydration play significant roles in this context as high levels of stress associated sugar dependency for example may make more irritation to viscera, nerves and feelings causing further predisposition to clenching and grinding and TMD issues.

All sides of the ‘triad of health’ are interactive and vitally important to maintain balanced in attainlng optimal health

And so the tale with each individual runs. Regardless of the cause one thing is for sure — relieving chronic systematic imbalances is not merely rapidly relieves LBP and other symptoms, but it also ensures that patients are sensitized to building the best future selections in their lifestyles that will deliver prolonged daily balance and freedom from ache — should they choose to do so.

NST is undoubtedly a profoundly effective system of spinal and somatic adjustments that dependably deliver outstanding results. But at the same time it is also a process of discovery and education for the patient, whereby they ultimately grasp that the lifestyle decisions they attain on a daily basis will ultimately place control of their health and longevity in their own hands.

As Edison put it back in 1903: “The doctor of the future will give no medication but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the causes and prevention of disease.”

The only way that our population’s health standards will improve in generations to come is by individuals assuming responsibility for their own health and prioritizing this above all else. Of course, we will always need physicians of all persuasions but there is much that can be achieved by the individual alone taking control of their health.

Restoring Systematic Integration to Remove LBP

NST applies a layered approach at every session that follows a specific model known as the Core-Extremities-Core approach where particular procedures are utilized to not only bring about dynamic integration of the pelvic girdle, spinal column and cranium as a division, but indeed to provide specific release to particular parts of the body as required.

Core — Includes corrections for the lumbar, thoracic and cervical spines, sacrum and diaphragm. This set of corrections is known as the “base core” and is the minimum any patient would receive regardless of their present symptoms. Base core corrections alone render outstanding results.

Extremities — Includes corrections for the upper and lower extremities that are added to the base core corrections as required to detail the session for particular presenting symptoms in the hips, hamstrings, knees, ankles, feet, shoulders, elbows, wrists and hands.

When added to base core corrections, these targeted releases are extremely effective, rapid pain reduction in afflicted areas. Extremities corrections also prepare the way for deeper core corrections to work more immediately.

Super Core — Includes corrections for the coccyx, pelvic girdle, temporomandibular joints, atlas and cranium. This set of corrections forms what is known in NST as “super core, ” corrections and not only provide for more thorough unlocking and integration of the pelvic-occipital system and body as a whole, but ultimately deliver sustainability of corrections for patients.

Super core corrections are utilized merely as required as determined by simple specific tests performed routinely throughout every session.

Regulating Muscle Tension Is the Key

If there is one fundamental principle around which NST is designed, and how and why it runs so simply yet profoundly, it is the elimination of irregular ‘macro and micro” muscular and fascial “tensional patterns” throughout the body. Consequently optimizing “tensegrity” is the goal!

This simple tensegity model shows that if the cables( muscles) are balanced the orange bars( bones) will follow and consequently nerve function and physiology are optimized

In a macro sense a typical muscular tensional pattern may involve a unilateral hamstring muscle, unilateral gluteus maximus and medius muscles, erector spinae muscles and diaphragm muscle. In a micro sense a typical muscular tensional pattern may involve a unilateral sternocleidomastoid muscle, hyoid muscles, masseter, lateral pterygoid and temporalis muscles.

Poor tensegrity= pain and dysfunction

Good tensegrity= robust physiology and health

Although at first glance it may seem complex to consider the unlocking of such a muscle pattern, the job is built exceedingly easy by following the simple sequences of releases that relate to whatever part of the body has tension.

The sequences are tried and proven, having made solving from LBP and a broad variety of other conditions for millions and millions of individuals over the last 25 years in particular. As an example, the bilateral releases for the lumbar spine number nine in total, and although very straightforward, represent perhaps the most complex set of releases.

In other words there is nothing very complex at all about the sequences that are quickly learnable and immediately reproducible. The bilateral thoracic releases number five in total and the cervical, six. Following are a few images of typical NST releases or PRI-moves.

Lumbar spine PRI-moves

Thoracic spine PRI-moves

Cervical spine PRI-moves

The NST PRI-Move

The PRI-move is perhaps the golden key that induces the NST system of releases possible at all. It was firstly developed by a sports medication expert in Melbourne, Australia, by the name of Ernie Saunders( 1880 -1 951) and later refined by the celebrated Australian osteopath Thomas Ambrose Bowen( 1916 -1 982 ), whose work inspired much of the NST system of releases.

The PRI-move refers to every release performed in NST that all share the same common formula of stretching the scalp and fascia over a designated underlying structure( muscle, nerve, tendon, ligament) contacting that structure with counter pressure, and then crossing the structure, causing it to bump or shift as a response.

The response causes a “discharge impulse reaction” in the structure that it is applied to and also other remote structures as well, hence giving rise to the PRI-move’s name, which simply means Proprioceptive Rolling Impulse movement.

Pri-moves applied in the spinal region cause local tissue sedation and remote muscle and visceral release via reflex pathways

Sequences of PRI-moves appear to cause a “proprioceptive tipping point” of sorts, whereby groups of muscles rapidly recalibrate back to a normal neuromuscular status. The resultant impact is a rapid reduction in muscles tension and ache, accompanied by a sense of relation, clarity and improved energy levels.

Signs of Muscle Tension

Many patients who suffer from LBP will also have other myofascial and musculoskeletal issues that appear to be unrelated, but in fact are telltale signs that all is not well in the body’s tensional system. Below is a list of symptoms sufferers of LBP report with, yet have not connected with their LBP :P TAGEND

General stiffness and aches and pains

Pain on doing bending or twisting movements

Pain or stiffness when walking

Pain when moving between sitting-standing-lying

Low energy, wearines or heaviness

Depression and lethargy

Irritability and negativity

Headaches

Foggy thoughts and poor memory

Bowels and bladder not working properly

Breathing difficulty

Poor sleep

Low sexual drive

After a few sessions of NST it often comes as a please surprise to patients when they discover that not only has their LBP gone, but they are noticing that many of those other secondary symptoms have faded as well.

Results achieved with NST

Results attained using NST in general clinical practise for LBP are genuinely outstanding and can be categorized as follows :P TAGEND

85 percent of patients will require one to three sessions to experience resolution

10 percent of patients will require four to six conferences to experience resolution

five per cent of patients will require ongoing conferences at seven to 14 days apart to remain pain free

While these ought to have my results over 30 years working with tens of thousands of patients in my clinics in Australia, France, Germany and Poland, they are also the same as our NST practitioners achieve.

To the best of my knowledge there are currently approximately 5,500 NST practitioners throughout the world who are actively practising NST and, to a person, they would all concur that results are predictably pretty much the same the world over.

Surprisingly few sessions( generally one to four) are required to bring about sustainable relief from LBP for their patients by use NST.

I also know this to be the case via thousands of case studies collected from these practitioners at hundreds of NST seminars that I have taught since 1996 and via equally as many personal testimonies throughout the same period of time.

Furthermore, between 2004 and 2006 I teamed up with doctors at a prominent psychosomatic institute in Milan, Italy,( Institute of Integrated Psychosomatics) to operate a series of research studies into the effectiveness of NST for patients suffering from chronic LBP.

Two groups of 60 and then 39 patients please give five NST sessions producing an 81 percentage success rate in the most severe sufferers of LBP and around 90 percent in the less severe sufferers. Previous medical intervention had been unable to resolve the LBP for the most severe sufferers.

Results were measured in pain scale reduction, ROM improvements, elimination of drug, avoidance of surgery and improvement in quality of life. The research was supervised Riccardo Scognamiglio and Michele Fortis at the Bergamo hospital with Alessandro Aloisi and other physiotherapists performing NST sessions.

The research was ultimately regulated by the Northern Italian government in cooperation with the WHO( World Health Organization ).

Development of NST

I designed NST in Melbourne, Australia, between the years of 1991 and 1995, and since 1996, together with my band of educators, ought to have teaching it exclusively to osteopaths, physiotherapists, chiropractors, doctors and other professional therapists via postgraduate seminars throughout Australia, Canada, the European continent, Russia, the United Kingdom and the USA.

The construction and underpinning doctrine of NST were significantly influenced by the osteopathic run of Ernie Saunders and Thomas Bowen, both Australians, and the chiropractic-osteopathic work of Dr. Major Bertrand DeJarnette, USA.

NST, or “neurostructural consolidation technique, ” refers to the manner in which the technique is applied and points to some of its underpinning doctrine. Said in reverse, NST is a technique for the consolidation of the structure via stimulation of the neurological and neuromuscular systems. Musculoskeletal and myofascial systems are implicit in this description.

Although NST utilizes absolutely no adjustments whatsoever to the skeletal system itself as in classical chiropractic or osteopathy, its sequences of specialized rolled motions called PRI-moves( proprioceptive rolling impulse motions) applied to the spinal column, pelvic girdle, cranium and extremities create outcomes that every chiropractor, osteopath and physiotherapist would be delighted with.

Conclusion

NST is a modern day osteospinal system that is easy to learn and reproduction instantly in the clinic for outstanding results in resolving lower back pain — LBP.

It would be a great injustice, however, to consider NST as an intervention only for LBP, as it is equally effective in resolving neck ache, all conditions of the articulations, visceral disorders, menstrual disorders, headaches, RSI, sporting traumata, motor vehicle traumata, autoimmune disorders and much more.

Most practitioners who attend the five-day osteospinal seminar rapidly convert many of their patients over to NST, as it is very user friendly, requiring little physical effort by the practitioner; yet, it renders outstanding clinical outcomes for the vast majority of patients on a daily basis.

Seminars

NST is taught exclusively to professional postgraduate practitioners via intensive hands-on seminars. There are four seminars that round out complete NST training, namely, Osteospinal, Advanced, Proto Plus and Deep Cures.

Osteospinal is the only mandatory level, while Advanced, Proto Plus and Deep Cures are all optional electives but highly recommended.

Upcoming Seminars for 2019 – Los Angeles, CA, June 5-9 and November 6-10.

Osteospinal

The first of the NST seminars is the five-day Osteospinal seminar that includes the all-important “NST Operating System” that is fundamental to the functioning of NST. Corrections for the spinal column, pelvic girdle, cranium, diaphragm and extremities are included.

Much can be achieved with the operating system, and many practitioners are completely satisfied to remain with this body of work such is its completeness and effectiveness.

Advanced

The second of the NST seminars is the four-day Advanced Osteospinal system that provides a host of new strategies for the shoulders, elbows, hands, feet, hips, TMJ cranium and more. These strategies seamlessly dovetail into the basic Osteospinal system.

The practitioner will also learn many time saving “clinical tricks” to accelerate the work learned at the Osteospinal seminar

Proto Plus

The third of the NST seminars, Proto Plus is a three-day seminar showcasing 24 sublimely effective mini-protocols and procedures that again dovetail seamlessly with the run are subject to the previous two seminars.

The mini-protocols have the effect of accelerating results and providing practitioners with alternative strategies for particular chronic or challenging cases.

Deep Cures

The final NST seminar is a three-day journey beyond the spine into the realms of chemicals and emotions.

With the aid of a specialized radionic exam kit and laser, practitioners will learn a series of ways to test if their patient is being affected by any one of a number of blockages that may act as an impediment to the proper function of autoregulation that typically takes place after receiving an NST session.

Practitioners will also learn how to test for toxicity and biochemical and nutritional deficiencies. The final day of the seminar is dedicated to a trilogy of emotional corrections from the world of Erickson, Kinesiology and EFT that will be a godsend for patients who have an emotional history to their physical condition.

About the Author

Dr. Michael Nixon-Livy is the CEO of www.nsthealth.com and a practise NST-osteopathic physician and psychotherapist specializing in natural integrative medication for sustainable ache relief and health. He is based in Australia and tours the world yearly teaching and lecturing.

Founder and developer of the highly acclaimed NST Osteospinal system, he is also an author and the leading lecturer for NST post-graduate seminars worldwide since 1996. He has personally introduced and taught the NST system in no fewer than 20 countries around the world including the USA and developed various live and digital education systems.

Michael is a passionate advocate for the education of individuals, groups and communities about intelligent lifestyle management to achieve optimal health and longevity.

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"God" by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Morton Schamberg

“In the spring of 2017 the Philadelphia Museum of Art told the same old story about an alleged scandal caused by a urinal. In its ignorance what the museum didn’t address was the part played by itself and other venerable Philadelphian institutions in the actual birth of American modern art, for it was in the Quaker City, and nowhere else, that on the day that America declared war on Germany in the first week of April 1917 a chain of events was triggered by an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer that lead to a spring offensive, not in Flanders, but at the Grand Central Palace on Lexington Avenue in New York City: an offensive whose offensiveness continues to resonate in world culture. Those institutions were the aforementioned Museum of Art, the Franklin Institute, the plumbing supply house, Haines, Jones and Cadbury, aka Hajoca, the master plumbers of Philadelphia and, critically, the fulcrum around which these agencies would unwittingly dance, the Philadelphia Inquirer. Whilst it would be on April 2 that Woodrow Wilson would ask a special joint session of the US Congress for a declaration of war, to which Congress responded positively on the 6th, it was in the pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer on April 1 that anticipation of this momentous event coincided with a notice announcing the opening of an open modern art exhibition in New York on the following Tuesday, the 10th. This was the inaugural exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists (S.I.A.,) some 50 of whose members would hail from Philadelphia and Pennsylvania – some famous, such as Robert Henri, Charles Demuth, Morton L. Schamberg and George Biddle and some completely unknown - such as a certain Richard Mutt who, whilst never making it into the exhibition, but whose corporeality was never questioned at the time, certainly made it into the annals of modern art. And it just so happened that on that same 1 April, a singular German artist, who had fled New York on January 7, found herself as a consequence in Philadelphia, not returning to the capital until twelve months later. Astonishingly, this was the daughter in law of the Kaiser’s Chief of Staff, Gen. Lt. Hugo Freiherr (Baron) von Freytag Loringhoven, the most celebrated military strategist in Europe: none other than the Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, who had been christened plain Hildegard Plötz, of Swinemünde (Świnoujście) Pomerania.. One of the Baron’s descendants would be in Hitler’s bunker at the end: another is presently Head of Intelligence for NATO. Funny old world. Ironically, on February 6, Elsa could have read in The Inquirer an interview with her father-in-law published under the headline ‘Militarism a Myth, Says German officer: General von Freytag-Loringhoven Denies Germany Started Out for Conquest – Says Allies Spent More on Military.’ Elsa’s response is not on record. An artist’s model who had also been arrested many times for public obscenity, the ‘colourful’ Elsa had left New York in a hurry, having been arrested once again of shoplifting – this time, of a box of chocolates and a bottle of olive oil from a drug store at Broadway and 110th St. on the 5th. But, hijacking the police wagon that was taking her to the Harlem jail on the 6th, Elsa paused at the Lincoln Arcade apartments’ only to collect her Pekingese dog, Pinky, as the police entered front door at 65th Broadway (no. 1947) as Elsa left through by back, proceeding thence to the Pennsylvania Station from whence, in a few minutes, she would have simultaneously crossed under the Hudson River and over the state line into New Jersey, beyond the reach of the New York Police Department and the jurisdiction of the Penal Code. As a repeat offender she was up for a maximum of $1000 fine and/or 12 months: her bail, which she couldn’t meet, was a whopping $300. As news reports confirm, three weeks later the police were still staking out the apartment of the individual they considered the craftiest shoplifter and ‘quick-change artist’ in Manhattan: not that it did them any good; she’d long gone. But Elsa, who when not in disguise was, for a variety of reasons, busy taking her clothes off, was also an artist, the most radical of the New York avant-garde, and in Philadelphia she would create the two most important early works of American Dada, which today, by chance, embellish the Arensberg Collection in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. One appears, by proxy, in the form of a so-called ‘replica’- a urinal signed R. Mutt: the other is what the curators of the museum apparently imagine to be a simple plumbing trap, made of iron, which could not be further from the truth, on both counts. The first is still misattributed to Marcel Duchamp: the latter was re-attributed to Elsa only in the 1990s. Quite simply, these two works demonstrate Elsa to be the lost genius of American avant-garde art, written out of the boys club but whose sojourn in Philadelphia in 1917 would completely rewrite the history of modern art, as it will again. Elsa’s reaction to the declaration of war on her beloved Germany would result in the unannounced arrival at the Grand Central Palace on the 9th of April, 1917, of a urinal that was summarily rejected because the artist apparently responsible for sending it in, one Richard Mutt, had no right to exhibit since had he neither joined the society, paid his fees and dues, registered his entry or delivered his work on time. And two reports of the ensuing argument over whether it should be accepted or not, published in the New York Sun and the Herald on April 11, stated plainly that Mutt’s Fountain and its author hailed from Philadelphia, its author “shipping from the Quaker City a familiar object of bathroom furniture manufactured by a well known firm of that town.” And how did they know - because its source would have been obvious from the details on the way-bill inevitably attached to its shipping crate, without which it couldn’t have moved an inch, and from the supplier’s brand and logo on the crate and the urinal itself, which both bore the image of a Quaker derived from the celebrated statue of William Penn, enclosed within a banderol declaring the company’s name, and crossed by its logo. This was Haines, Jones and Cadbury (aka Hajoca,) then, as now, the most venerable plumbing supply house in Philadelphia. Both the reporters had even given Mutt the initial’s ‘J.C.,’ the capital letters of Jones and Cadbury. Beginning its life as a manufacturer of plumber’s ground key brass work in 1885, like every other major jobber of plumbing goods in the US, the Hajoca diversified into a one-stop shop, eventually manufacturing porcelain-enameled plumbing fixtures itself but never double fired vitreous ceramic ‘china’ equivalents, such water closets, lavatories and baths, or the urinal that Elsa would acquire from a local plumber: only the jobbers could buy from the manufacturers, and only in bulk; the plumbers had to buy from them. These vitreous ceramic (‘china,’ or ‘porcelain,’) plumbing fixtures were almost exclusively manufactured an hour away by rail, in Trenton, New Jersey, and one of the companies from which Hajoca are known to have sourced their vitreous ceramic fixtures was the Trenton Potteries Company (TPCo) which manufactured the model of urinal that Elsa/Mutt send to the Independents, which would not be attributed to Marcel Duchamp until 1935, and who could not have bought it in 1917 from where in 1966 he would say he had - from the J. L. Mott Iron Works at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Seventeenth St, N. Y. C - since the design of the urinal was unique, its identity and origins unmistakable – as long as you know what you’re looking at, which helps. Neither was it made nor factored by Mott’s: nor was it available for retail purchase at that address, since this was a set of showrooms, dedicated solely to display. And neither was the urinal in the Mott catalogue current in 1917: the only manufacturer’s catalogue in which it could be found at that date was the Trenton Potteries ‘Blue Book’ Catalogue ‘R’ of 1915, although of course it appeared in catalogues issued by plumbing supply houses such as Hajoca from no later than 1906 to at least 1922. But not in Mott’s. Whilst sourcing their vitreous ceramic urinals from the TPCo, Hajoca had the option of having that firm’s ‘star-in-the-circle’ trademark replaced with their own, described above, a practice they adopted for all fixtures and fittings they sold, whether manufactured by themselves or not. The Hajoca logo was what the two New York journalists had seen at the vernissage on 9 April. Two days after the urinal was rejected, Duchamp admitted in a letter to his sister in Paris that not he but a female friend had “sent” it “in,” a typically routine observation that never entered the public domain until fourteen years after Duchamp’s death, in 1982, by which time the false attribution to himself had, in complete ignorance of this admission, become embedded in an establishment myth that persists to this day. And the only female friend of Duchamp’s with whose existing practice Mutt’s submission imbricated seamlessly was Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Duchamp’s only female friend in Philadelphia, the only individual in North America capable of conceiving and executing Mutt’s gesture - and with good reason to do so since, at a stroke, on April 6, Elsa had become an enemy alien whilst Marcel joined the allies who had already embraced him, and rejected her. Not that that was the only reason. These events explain why the urinal appeared out of the blue at the Grand Central Palace on April 9. For Elsa had left New York three weeks before the first notices of the ensuing exhibition began to appear - in the New York press, on the subway, and the ‘El,’ announcing the forthcoming exhibition, inviting artists to join the society – on January 20. Since no such notice appeared in any Philadelphia newspaper, the first Elsa would have known about the show would have been on the April 1st, when a note to prospective visitors to the show – not artists intending to submit works: it was too late for that - informed Philadelphia that all members of the society would exhibiting up to two works, but omitted to mention that membership of the organisation was obligatory, a condition which, therefore, Elsa could not have known. And if the plumber’s shop from which Elsa procured the urinal had been as typical as those habitually described in the plumbing press, then, in the corner Elsa would have found the plumbing trap that would become Exhibit B now on display at the Philadelphia Museum, and known as ‘God.’ Since – as its condition then as now demonstrates, at least to plumber, but not, thus far, any self-regarding orthodox Duchamp scholar - it was useless junk, Elsa would probably have got it for nothing: the urinal would have cost her no more than $10, probably less, because it too was no use to a plumber, since it had suffered a fault during its manufacture. Unlike its description on the Philadelphia Museum current website – a plumbing trap made of iron – Elsa’s ‘God (made, as any Joe the Plumber, then and now, knows, from brass,) was in fact a Bennor Anti-Syphon Globe Trap, the original form of which had been patented in 1883, whilst the more refined design (properly ‘pattern’) exhibited by ‘God’ first appeared in a Hajoca catalogue ten years later, alongside its ancestor. This original – not, as in he case of Mutt’s urinal, a ‘replica’ - had been awarded a Scott Premier Medal by the Franklin Institute in 1894, for manufacturing ‘novelties.’ Like the aforementioned museum, that same Franklin institute is today unaware that the sole surviving example of Joseph Bennor’s design can be found a stone’s throw down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The significance of Elsa’s ‘God’ does not so much reside in the contribution that Bennor’s design made to the history of sanitation – his anti-syphon globe trap being one of the most successful anti-sewer gas and anti-siphon designs marketed between 1884 and 1914, when it disappeared from the inventory – but in the fact that, after 1883, it was made exclusively – in Philadelphia - by Haines, Jones and Cadbury, the company that had also factored – in Philadelphia - the urinal that Elsa would submit – from Philadelphia - to the Independents’ exhibition, providing the final nail in the coffin of the attribution of Mutt’s urinal to the oeuvre of Marcel Duchamp. The confirmation of the de-attribution from Duchamp ‘s oeuvre of Mutt’s urinal, and its re-attribution to that of Elsa, confirmed by the identification of the genealogy of Bennor’s Anti-Syphon Globe Trap, has profound implications for the legitimacy of the most radical and ubiquitous form of avant-garde art practice of the second half of the twentieth century, Conceptual Art. For the legitimacy of its theorisation, by Joseph Kosuth, in 1969, depended on assumptions that no longer retain any validity. These are as follows. That Mutt’s urinal had been submitted by Marcel Duchamp as a work of art in the form of a Readymade, for the express purpose of demonstrating that the definition of art was the prerogative of the artist, which the urinal’s exhibition had validated. But the common origins of Elsa’s ‘God’ and Mutt’s urinal prove that none of these assumptions are correct. That the propitious conjunction of the critical events described here, circumscribing this narrative, occurred in Philadelphia, and nowhere else, makes the Quaker City the true cradle of America Dada, and its progenitor, not Marcel Duchamp, but Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Thanks to Philadelphia, the ‘father’ of modern American art was in fact a ‘mother’: and so much for the attribution of the Philadelphia Museum’s ‘replica’ urinal to Marcel Duchamp. Anybody thinking that the institutions cited above would be interested in this subject would be advised to think again. (Further reading, by the author. 'Elsa in Philadelphia.' Summerhall, Edinburgh, Summer 2017. 'Only in Philadelphia.' Moore College of Art Philadelphia website: Moore Women Artists. 'Duchamp's Urinal? The Facts Behind the Facade.' Wild Pansy Press, Leeds University, 2015.)”  - author unknown