Video: Flexor Withdrawal Reflex Cold Laser Therapy

Learn about what flexor withdrawal reflex cold laser therapy is in chiropractic care in this free health care video.

Video Transcript

Hi, my name is Dr. Steve Minors of Rehab Effects in Austin, Texas. Today we will be discussing Cold Laser Therapy and effecting certain reflex points on the body. Referring to applied kinesiology there are various reflex points on the body. Controlling several different areas such as adrenal function, which is your stress gland or cortical reflex which addresses or pertains to cortical which is a stress hormone that the adrenal gland secretes. We also have pain reflex points and the one that we're going to focus on today is called the Flexor Withdrawal Reflex. That usually occurs when for example, when someone puts their hand on a hot stove. When that hand is placed on the hot stove, they tend to jerk back. All of the extensor muscles, those meaning the muscles that allow us to go backward, such as your hamstring muscle or your buttock muscle and other muscles such as those actually will contract on that entire side of your body. And the way that happens is that well, we'll look at these models to help us explain this. This is a model of the neck. This is the right side. This is the left side. If the right hand touches the hot stove, then it will cause the muscles or certain muscles on the right side of the body to contract. The response occurs in the brain on the right side. It goes down through your spinal column in your neck in a certain pathway referred to as the spinothalamic reticular tract. It's a pain tract that allows our bodies to detect pain. It will go down into the lumbar spine on the right side and start to come out right around here. Usually around the fourth level. So if someone were to sprain their ankle and it's their right ankle, then their going to have pain come into the spinal tract right around L4 and it's going to go up the spine into the right side of the brain. Depending on how long the injury may have occurred, say for example if it was a childhood injury and it was fairly substantial, it potentially can cross the brain by way of what's called the corpus callosum into the left side of the brain.

Flexor Withdrawal Reflex Cold Laser Therapy

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