NEURAL THERAPY IN PRACTICE ARCHIVE

Dear Colleagues:   This month I would like report on what might seem to be a minor problem but take the time to explore what might be behind it.   A 60 year old woman, a retired operating room nurse and cattle farmer's wife, presented with pain in her left ankle. The...

Dear Colleagues:  This month I would like to discuss dental infections, and what to do about them.Everyone familiar with neural therapy knows how important teeth are in finding the causes of unexplained illness. In fact, after scars, dental interference fields are the...

Dear Colleagues: Letter from Pablo Koval: Hi Robert. With regard to your November newsletter - a very interesting update on the subject (Neural therapy and surgery).  One point I would like to add is the possibility that the surgery, although minimal, may act as a...

Dear Colleagues:  In a few months, I will have completed 13 years of monthly neural therapy newsletters - over 150 of them. From small beginnings this has reached farther than I could have ever imagined at the outset. We now have over 1600 subscribers from all...

Dear Colleagues:  This month I would like to discuss the relationships between neural therapy and surgery. We all know to look for scars, but there is much more that can happen in surgery than the creation of scar interference fields.  In fact, surgery is always a...

Dear Colleagues: Long-time readers may remember that six years ago I wrote a newsletter on the subject of hip pain and how usually the problem is not in the hip. When the only physical finding is tenderness, it is often misdiagnosed as trochanteric bursitis. However,...

Dear Colleagues:  One of the best indications that neural therapy may be the solution to our patient's pain problem is failure of manual treatments to help a situation that is clearly mechanical in nature. This is especially evident when chronic pain develops after a...

Dear Colleagues:  Neural therapy does not come immediately to my mind when patients present with skin problems. If contact dermatitis is not the issue, I usually think of systemic disturbances, especially diet, intestinal parasites, toxic exposures etc.  So when this...

Dear Colleagues: Last month's newsletter was about planning an introductory neural therapy course for North American physicians. I mentioned that training programs are already established in other countries, especially Europe, Latin America (and I should have also...

Dear Colleagues: This month I want to report on the progress of the North American Academy of Neural Therapy (NAANT) in creating an educational program. This is not an easy project as it requires consensus on what neural therapy is, and that is not always clear. Every...

Dear Colleagues: Migraine would seem to be a happy hunting ground for neural therapists. After all, among its most distinctive features are the autonomic nervous system disturbances that to go with it. With some categories of migraine, they are the only symptoms. ...

Dear Colleagues: One of my pet peeves in medicine is pseudo-diagnosis - labelling a condition with a name suggesting knowledge that does not exist. "Arthritis of the spine" comes to mind, used for non-specific backache associated with disc degeneration on x-ray. This...

Dear Colleagues: In a recent newsletter, I announced the release of the long-awaited English translation of Dr. Hans Barop's neural therapy textbook. His first edition was published over 20 years ago, and had already become a standard in the German-speaking world. Dr...

Dear Colleagues: The superior cervical ganglia and the organs directly in front of it (the tonsils) have always been important in neural therapy.  By "important", we mean they are common interference fields, and they also have far-reaching effects on the body's...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to take a look at the subject of Baker's cysts.  These cysts are common and often no more than a nuisance, but occasionally they become painful.  They may even lead to complications affecting nerve supply and leg circulation...

Dear Colleagues: This month I want to tackle the issue of "Regular Membership" of the newly formed North American Academy of Neural Therapy.  I received a few questions about this last month and because it is a contentious subject decided to devote this newsletter to...

Dear Colleagues: This month I want to explore the relationship between neural therapy and psychiatry.  The relationship is complicated.  The "bible" of neural therapy, at least in the English-speaking world (Dosch's Manual of Neural Therapy According to Huneke: 2nd...

Dear Colleagues: Neural therapy has a place in treating many medical conditions, but I doubt many of us would consider it a first option when dealing with fatigue. Fatigue is just too nebulous and multifactorial a symptom to expect the simple solutions that we hope to...

Dear Colleagues: I find dizziness to be a difficult symptom to diagnose.  There are simply so many causes. And because symptoms often come and go, the cause of dizziness is hard to pin down and response to treatment is challenging.   Many years ago as a pre-med...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to present an intriguing case of dementia.  Neural therapy was not used in treatment, but an interference field was detected in the small intestine by autonomic response testing.  And this proved to be the key to both diagnosis...

Dear Colleagues: Last month I promised to continue my report (Vol.12, No.6) on the First International Neural Therapy conference in North America (held in Ottawa, Canada on May 11-13th).  The first morning's lectures set a high standard that was maintained throughout...

Dear Colleagues: Almost a month has passed since the first International Neural therapy conference in North America (in Ottawa, May 11-13, 2017). Many observed it to have been an historic event, very successful by any measure, and memorable for a number of reasons....

Dear Colleagues: Ever since Ferdinand Huneke's "Eureka" moment in 1941, when injecting a leg scar with procaine cured a chronic contralateral frozen shoulder, the concept of the "interference field" has been central to neural therapy.  And to a large extent it has...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to revisit the subject of autonomic response testing or ART.  For those readers not yet familiar with the term, I have devoted a full chapter to it in my book: Neural therapy: Applied neurophysiology and other topics. ART is a...