Correspondence: Dr W Pearce [email protected] Once awareness, our seat of deliberate action and movement, is temporarily extinguished by sleep or a loss of consciousness, we rely on a primordial, indispensable, and autonomous (“vegetative”) system that continues to sustain and control our vital organ systems. This vegetative system is never allowed to rest. The Cambridge physiologist J N Langle...

The autonomic nervous system has a regulatory structure that helps people adapt to changes in their environment by adjusting or modifying some functions in response to stress, and regulating involuntary function of human organs. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of combined stimulation, both far-infrared heating and chiropractic, on the autonomic nervous system activities ...

In acute noxious injuries to the spine, usually the somatic sensory and motor dysfunctions originate an acute pain which is referred to as acute “nociceptive” or somatic pain (Figure 1). In occasional situations the pain may have a tendency to persist for months or several years after the original injury has healed. This type of persistent pain has been referred to as “neuropathic pain.” Descri...

It is well known that autonomic failure is severer in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) compared with patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). According to the Braak's hypothesis, Lewy bodies first appear in the olfactory bulb or peripheral autonomic nervous system. Lewy bodies in the peripheral autonomic nervous system ascend to dorsal motor nuclei of vagus nerve, while those in the...

The autonomic nervous system is affected in a wide variety of neurological disorders. Its dysfunction may play an important role in the clinical course and may result in serious complications, such as cardiac arrest. We report a case of tetanus who presented with severe autonomic nervous system dysfunction which was detected by spectral analysis of heart rate variability monitored over 24 h. Th...