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Dear Therapist,
 welcome to another neurodynamics update. So far it has been a big year for NDS, with new openings occurring at several locations around the world. We were excited to offer for the first time our courses in Spain where instructor development will start in the near future. There seems to be a lot of interest in Clinical Neurodynamics in this country and there are plans to develop more courses in many locations there. NDS continues to grow and you will be pleased to have some interesting updates on Dr Alf Breig's classic cadaver work, how to mobilize acute painful nerve roots painlessly and read a feature on a famous Spanish neuroscientist whose contribution to this area won him a Nobel prize.
Neuroscientist with Attitude: Ramón y Cajal - Who was he and what did he do?
 He may be the only scientist to blow up the town gates AND win a Nobel prize! Known for his rebellious attitude and breaking the rules of neuroscience, he proposed the idea that single nerve cells and gaps between them existed and formed the basis for neural processing. Read about the Nobel Prize winning Neuroscientist...
NDS España!
NDS held their first course in Zaragoza, Spain last month. It was fully subscribed and was arranged by Professor José Miguel Tricas whose enthusiasm for OMT never ceases. They have a group of teachers at the university who teach nationally and NDS is proud to announce that we will be combining with this group to hold courses nationally in Spain. Read more...
Gifts from Spanish Parliament
 NDS instructors, Michael Shacklock and Alfio Albasini were honored to each receive a gift from the Spanish parliament of Aragon for their presentations at the University of Zaragoza. The gift was in the form of a trilogy of books of Ramon y Cajal who did his medical training at the university, something which Zaragozans are naturally very proud of. Full Article...
All these and more articles and links are available from the NDS News Feed (RSS)
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Dr Alf Breig - Founder of Adverse Neural Tension - Dissects Human Cervical Nerve Roots
Dr Alf Breig's work continues to be a feature of NDS newsletters, simply because he contributed so much to our understanding of neurodynamics and his work is not well known to many clinicians.
Here are a couple of pictures of his dissections of the human cervical nerve rootlets (bundles of axons that form a nerve root). Loose and tight - behaviour of the nerve fibres, arachnoid and intrameningeal blood vessels. Read More...
Next Courses:
Symptom-free Mobilisation of Cervical Nerve Roots for Acute Radicular Pain
In Clinical Neurodynamics, Shacklock (2005) discussed the idea of performing contralateral neurodynamic test for relief of nerve root pain. How this operates is hypothesized to be by a complex of spinal cord movements. Using his cadaver studies, Dr Alf Breig showed how this might work as early as 1960. Read More...
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