Abstract

In 2013 world renowned Paralympian John Maclean became the first long term paraplegic to suddenly walk again. Maclean who had been wheelchair dependent for 25 years pre engaging in NeuroPhysics Therapy (NPT) took his first recorded unassisted steps in 25 years within the first 3 days of this non-controversial therapy. More so, 18 months post NPT, Maclean completed a conventional (abled persons) Triathlon. 60 minutes Australia picked up the story in which a prominent spinal cord injury expert and researcher referred to MacLean’s ability to walk again as a miracle - given the significance of the lesion to his spinal cord at T12. Maclean describes the events that lead to him being able to walk again in his bestselling book titled ‘How Far Can You Go’. John Maclean’s well-publicized unprecedented transition from wheelchair athlete to able bodied athlete lies amongst many other ongoing promoted successes of NPT in assisting large numbers of people suffering from complex neurological conditions and enabling other paraplegics and quadriplegics to either walk again or significantly enhance their functional capacity in very small timescales. NeuroPhysics Therapy Institute’s focus is to better understand the discrete values of the CNS’s natural chaotic neural phenomena and how this phenomena can be therapeutically systematically exploited to dramatically enhance the complexity of the CNS to enable it to compensate for variable lesions including but not restricted to; Stoke, Acquired Brain Trauma, Parkinson’s disease, Epilepsy, MS, Muscular Dystrophy. As well as psychophysical based disorders such as CRPS, Dystonia, Fibromyalgia.

The success of NPT hinges upon a Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS’s) approach and the understanding of disease and disorder through the lens of complexity as a loss of the systems complexity. This presentation will review the non-ambiguous step by step scientific principles and rational that produce unprecedented benefits in very small time scales to clients who have often suffered from long term complex neurological diseases and disorders, along with supportive electro psychophysical data and extracts from relative peer reviewed publications. As well, reconfirm the undeniable successes of NPT and the need to make NPT available to the global community. To accomplish this more research and publications collaborations are sought.

Audience Take Away:

Most research and therapeutics involve a mechanistic and reductionism approach based upon cause and effect. This presentation highlights and encourages the benefits of including scale free systems thinking and approaches along with networks science wisdom to better solve complex problems involving lesions of the human CNS. The negative phenotypic plasticity involved in the development of neurological disorders is subject to perception and environment. A neurological disease or disorder is often the end result of rouge perceptions of environment, therefore all envisaged pursuits to alter the psychophysical phenotype must be sensitive to the roles that perception and environment play in the day to day evolution of the CNS. You cannot understand the living cell in isolation to the organism it inhabits and you cannot understand the organism in isolation to the environment it inhabits. Likewise, you cannot understand disease, disorder and psychophysical functionality in isolation to the organism and the relationship it has with the environment it inhabits. Through novel perspectives and approaches the audience will be able to better understand the intrinsic nature of problems they are often faced with in research and therapeutics and why hypothesis does not often agree with the results of experiment.