Spinal Slump Massage in 1880
I have been cleaning out my desk and finding images that I collected for possible inclusion into books that I wrote last century. These images were…
Neuroscience nugget #45: Let the light in
I can recall an elderly neurologist presenting an undergraduate lecture in the early 70’s on peripheral nerve problems. I remember it because of a comment “somehow…
Digital nerve entrapment in the finger
I have developed a peripheral nerve problem as I move to retirement – it sort of doesn’t seem fair! I was fishing during the Christmas…
The somatopic sciatic nerve
Continuing on our sequence of stories from neuroanatomy … Clinicians know that persistent pain experienced around the ischial tuberosity and sub gluteal space can sometimes…
Nurse bites doctor’s neck, sucks on cranial nerve XI
The spinal accessory nerve (cranial nerve XI) supplies sternocleidomastoid and the upper traps. Check out the image below from Mumenthaler and Schliack (1991). If injured, it…
The sural nerve – the appendix of the nervous system?
Professor Michel Coppieters is teaching Mobilisation of the Nervous System in Sydney on July 29-30. Here’s Michel’s post on the sural nerve (one of the most…
Mobilisation of the Neuroimmune System 2017
In 2017, Professor Michel Coppieters is running Mobilisation of the Neuroimmune System in Sydney, 29 – 30 July. Here’s David Butler’s NOInote explaining what this course is all about …
What is ‘normal’?
Reflecting on symmetry In reflecting back on various conversations about symmetry, or really asymmetry of the human body, I started to think about the comparisons we…
The very stretchy nerves of the blue whale
Michel Coppieters, who obviously reads in rather obscure places, sent me this article from this month’s Current Biology – Stretchy nerves are an essential component of…
A friction free ‘glide path’ for nerves – Neuroscience Nugget No 12
Peripheral nerves require extraordinary mobility in relation to surrounding tissues, sometimes sliding up to 2 centimetres as we move. This is because nerves are long (they…
