First and foremost, remember your Dura Mata ~ Meninges / Cuda Equina (Horses Tail) – it’s the ‘tail end’ of the connective element of your PSN > Parasympathetic Nervous System, your SNS > Sympathetic Nervous System, and your ANS > Autonomic Nervous System … within this facia you receive stimuli from your Myotomes (Muscles) and your Dermatones (Skin), you have receptor’s and responders, pro-preception, it’s all part of your kynasthetic sense … from which there is the classic withdrawal reflex.
Your Lumbar Plexus is part of your Pheranom Magnum – your Spinal Canal.
Your Nerves :
3 major leg nerves – Sciatic, Obturator and Femoral – the Obturator Nerve supplies your adductors and the Femoral Nerve supplies your Quads ..
3 major arm nerves – Radial (back of arm / triceps, back of hand), Median (front inner arm and palm of hand), Ulnar (front outer arm) …. together known as the Brachial Plexus
your funny bone registers the ulnar nerve all the way into your little finger …
5% of your body mass is your nervous system and requires 20% of your total oxygen intake to function healthily
>overstretching can cause nerves to be starved of oxygen
>compression (osteophytes / extra growth and cts, carpal tunnel syndrome)
>entrapment
>frank injury – torn calf muscle or boney fracture
these injurious qualities all mean that the nerve will lose its oxygen supply and become inflamed (itis). It may also lose the ability to transport messages.
Overstretching must always be avoided.
Signs of an Unhealthy Nervous System :
>pain
>pins and needles
>numbness
>muscle weakness
>skin discolourment, bagginess
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