Reduce Pain and Reboot Your Nervous System with Neural Therapy
What is Neural Therapy?
Neural therapy is the use of the local anesthetic procaine injected into scars, skin, or muscles to remove electrical interference in the nervous system. Interference fields can be caused by:
surgery
vaccinations
injection sites
piercings
trauma
inflammation
infection
diseased organs
psychological trauma
The purpose of neural therapy is to remove fascial restrictions, improve lymphatic drainage, and it may also benefit the brain.
Neural therapy is also known as sclerotherapy (scar therapy). Ask yourself: What scars do you have on your body? Do you have reduced movement or more pain at the scar site, or above or below the scar site? Now ask yourself if you have any scars you are unaware of? Maybe a scar on your skull or back or somewhere else out of sight you forget about. How about your belly button? It is a scar from birth.
I have seen a patient who had chronic right shoulder pain ever since her gallbladder was surgically removed. The right shoulder is a classic referral pattern for gallbladder problems; however, hers was gone and only a knot of scar tissue remained in its place. Neural therapy on her gallbladder scar produced permanent relief of her shoulder pain.
Remember: surgical scars often go deep, so there is far more scar tissue under the surface binding up your nerves and blood vessels and restricting connective tissue movement in the surrounding areas.
Neural therapy is not an aesthetic treatment; however, repeated treatments on a scar does tend to shrink it.
Why use Procaine?
Procaine is a local anesthetic that:
Stabilizes nerves, the nervous system, and mast cells (which release histamines when burst, causing itchy allergic reactions)
Improves blood flow
Has antidepressant effects
Is easily eliminated from the body and does not need to be broken down in the liver
Many people are more familiar with procaine's cousins novocaine and lidocaine. Novocaine is procaine with a sulphite preservative, which is often the cause of allergic reactions to local anesthetics
Neural therapy typically takes 3 – 6 treatments for lasting effects; however, there can be instantaneous improvements. I once saw a woman with numbness into her pinky finger from a dog bite in that side of her hand. One neural therapy treatment completely resolved all the numbness and weakness in her hand. It may seem ironic that temporary anesthesia would relieve numbness; however, I liken it to hitting the reset switch on an electronic device. You want the device to work but you must turn it off and then on again to get it to reboot. Our nervous system can behave in the same way and may benefit from a gentle reboot.
