• Understand communications for the Levels of Care in relationship to the participation of the spine and nervous system to enhanced self awareness and nurturing self responsibility in the practice member.

Who may attend: Chiropractors and chiropractic students who have attended either Two Basic Level Intensive Seminars, or One Basic Level Intensive Seminar and a NSA hands on Workshop. It is suggested that chiropractic students be enrolled in the last year of school prior to attending this program.

Part One:

Continued discussion of objectives, examination and outcome assessment of the practice member in the illness/wellness model.

Updated review of the latest NSA research including University of California Irvine
Retrospective and Longitudinal study and abstracts developed from these studies.

Updated review of the latest NSA research, including the University of Southern California study of chaotic modeling of the Somatopsychic wave™ in NSA. A basic review of the updated research in this area, including information from the paper presented to the National Science Foundation seminar on Dynamical Systems November 2000 will be presented.

The following all refer to the progression into and through NSA Intermediate Care:

• Physiology of the defensive brain
• Physiology of the brain poised for growth and development
• The subluxation and spinal distortion as a limbic response by a defensive brain
• The NSA entrainment contact as a means of assisting the CNS shift from defense to growth
• Physiology of spinal and neural integrity relative to the passive, active, neural and emotional subsystems.
• Examination for storage of energy in the passive, active and control system for Intermediate Care.
• Examination for dissipation of energy in the passive, active and control system.
• Indicators of loss of integrity of above spinal subsystems.
• Improvement in cooperative function (synergy) between the subsystems.
• Evaluation tools for the above.
• Understanding the principle of oscillation and entrainment relative to spinal integrity.
• The principle of entrainment
• Evaluation for entrained spinal oscillators.
• Non-linearity at far from equilibrium relative to liberation of free (available) energy for reorganization
• Establishing clinical outcomes Level Two (Intermediate) of Care.
• Understanding the emerging properties of the nervous system and the spine at Level Two of Care.
• Defining the Spinal Gateway™.

Part Two:

• Detecting the Spinal Gateway™
• Addressing the Spinal Gateway™
• Hands on application of the Beginning of Intermediate Care
• Longer duration contacts
• Observing and evaluation of changes in the passive, active, and neural control subsystems as a consequence of early
• Intermediate care (Level 2A) care
• Achieving significant separation at the vertebral articulations as a consequence of the appropriate force application
• Transition from Basic Care into Intermediate Care
• The use of Level 2A as a means of enhancing spinal and neural integrity and promoting the development of the Somatopsychic wave™
• Level 2A clinical outcome assessment and patient self-assessment of wellness and quality of life

Part Three:

• Understanding the concept of differentiated segmental motion
• Evaluating and enhancing differentiated segmental motion
• Observation of Gateways of free oscillation, and motion as contrasted to limited motion and restricted energy availability.
• Evaluating for temporal coordination of entrained segmental motion
• Understanding the Somatopsychic wave™ as a medium for self organization and for sharing information and energy between subsystems, and a tool for further advancement of Level Two of Care
• Transition between Level 2A and the middle of Level Two (2B) of Care.
• The use of a rapid oscillatory force on the Gateway articulation
• Side posture and seated positioning- rational
• Side posture and seated positioning- application
• Level 2B clinical outcome assessment and patient self-assessment of adaptation to stress and quality of life.

Part Four:

• Understanding the concept of figure 8 differentiated segmental motion
• Evaluating and enhancing differentiated segmental motion for Late Level 2
• Evaluating for spatial coordination of entrained segmental motion
• Understanding the Somatopsychic wave™ as a medium for self organization and for further advancement into Level Three of Care
• Transition between Level 2B and late Level Two (2C) of Care.
• Supine positioning- rational and application
• The extension positive contacts on the thoracic and lumbar spine
• Structural force impulses
• Level 2C clinical outcome assessment and patient self-assessment of adaptation to stress and quality of life.

Part Five:

• Transitioning between Intermediate and Advanced Care
• Utilizing force applications seen in Advanced Care to assist in completion of Intermediate Care objectives.
• Modulation of force application between Levels of Care
• Introducing the Iliac Crest contact
• Introduction to the concepts of Advanced Care sufficient to refine Level Two C results.
• Integration of seminar material, and responses to questions asked during program.

Network Spinal Analysis™ Advanced Care Intensive
presented by Donald Epstein, D.C.

Awaken and Expand
This seminar begins with the progression from Intermediate to Advanced (Level Three) Care. The use of force applications characteristic of Advanced Care to assist in furtherance of Intermediate care will be demonstrated. The proposed physiology of Level Three of Care will be presented, as will the clinical priorities. This is considered Wellness Care and utilizes the Spinal Gateways™ previously established to further the development of a third, thoracic Spinal oscillator.

Learn the Long and Short Lever Arm Maneuver, Iliac Crest, Extension Positive, and the force applications unique to Advanced Care.

Understand the progression through the three aspects of Advanced Care, as the thoracic oscillator becomes more primary, and the other spinal oscillators entrain to the pace setter of the "heart".

Explore the implications of spinal, somatic, respiratory, and cardiac entrainment.