DR CHRIS PORTER – Registered Osteopath

(B. Sc. Ost. Med. (HONS) PhD. Registered Osteopath. Member of Australian Osteopathic Association (AOA) and Australian Medical Laser Association (AMLA))

Neuro Emotional Technique (NET)
Emotions such as fear, depression, resentment and many others can negatively affect us long after the original event that caused them has passed.  When our body fails to let go of these emotions, we can find ourselves with unexplained chronic physical problems.
For example, a patient suffering from stress related headaches may have an emotional basis. Treatment including NET may be appropriate.
NET uses applied Kinesiology to uncover old traumas. A bad experience may be a one off (eg. a car accident) or repeat patterns of experiences that compounds a certain negative emotion.

Dry Needling
Chris completed an acupuncture course for manual medicine in 2002. Including this approach can be of great help in accelerating treatment effectiveness.
The body meridian system is a practical approach to dealing with a network of strains and tensions.
The use of fine needles to stimulate points on the meridian systems are techniques that have been practiced in China (and other places) for centuries. Today, some may view this as treating the body’s Intranet system. (Of course, there are some people who are needle phobics. If you’re one of them, dry needling alternatives can be offered.)

Auricular (Ear) Therapy has, conceptually, taken a more neurological angle and was developed by a French Doctor – Paul Nogier in South of France. In 1990, his system of Auricular Therapy received recognition by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Anecdotally, I occasionally use this system to assist people with Parkinson disease and trigeminal neuralgia.
Decades of research (mainly in France, Germany and USA) has resulted in finding that ears have a vast network of nerve connections that lead straight to the brain: If the brain is the computer, the ear is the keyboard or monitor. So in Auricular Therapy, there are no meridians.
The proposal is that the ear contains a map, via the brain, of different parts of the body. Once the problem has been mapped out via the ear, the corresponding disturbed points are then stimulated. In other words, each ear point acts like a switch to stimulate the corresponding nerve connection and signal back to the central nervous system which, in turn, makes the corrections to heal the body.
Laser auricular therapy is painless and does not do any tissue damage. However, some people may feel lethargic after treatment, for a short period.

Low Level Laser Therapy
(Also know as Cold Laser Therapy & PhotoBioModulation)
This therapeutic technique has proved highly potent in addressing difficult-to-treat conditions such as frozen shoulder, damaged tendons, golfers elbow, plantar fasciitis etc.
It does this by switching back on and stimulating the cells in the body that are responsible for tissue repair and healing. It may also help in reducing pain and inflammation.
This was first discovered when it was observed that laser light would dramatically accelerate open wound healing. This also works for deeper injuries eg. strained achilles tendons. Since then, over the decades, a considerable amount of scientific research has been carried out. To quote BioFlex Medical laser systems, some 4000 research papers and 500 clinical trials have resulted in one of the strongest evidence based modalities.