A comprehensive review of neural therapy
We owe the systematization of the diagnostic and therapeutic use of local anesthetics to the brothers Ferdinand and Walter Huneke, who decades ago brilliantly interpreted their observations on the use of local anesthetics in patients.
In addition, Ricker's Relational Pathology, Speranski's Neural Pathology and the work of the Vienna Group (Bergsmann, Hopfer, Kellner, Perger, Pischinger, Stacher) and later Heine's work laid the scientific foundations for neural therapy. Neural therapy later became widespread in many clinics thanks to Peter Dosch, whose textbook published in the 1960s supported neural therapy in its final ascent.
Another milestone of Neural Therapy is Hans Barop's textbook, which is notable for its "Bodypainting" as an anatomical atlas on the one hand, and its linearity of neuro-anatomy and neurophysiology on the other. The recently published Neural Therapy Handbook by Stefan Weinschenk, Hüseyin Nazlikul's Neural Therapy Textbook and Neural Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Diseases PhD* have also been an important source of reference.
Many applications in neural therapy have been used in conventional medicine over the years. Although local and segmental neural therapy is now called "local and segmental infiltration anesthesia" or "diagnostic and therapeutic local anesthesia" instead of "neural therapy", it ultimately overlaps with conventional medicine.
There is probably not a single pain clinic in the world where neural therapy is not integrated in both diagnostic and therapeutic areas.
Over time, focal and interference field formation has also been demonstrated. These structures have been investigated in relation to rheumatic, cardiological and gynecological diseases, especially in the dental-jaw region, partly on large groups of patients. Through the elucidation of statistically significant associations, models based on experiments have been presented that draw attention to the relationship between the autonomic nervous system - neurogenic inflammation - immune system. In addition, many processes in interference fields can now be (partially) explained by neuro-anatomical connectivity errors. In this way, the concept of segment has gained a broader meaning.
In addition, the precision and speed of the organism's response in neural therapy is remarkable, especially in functional disorders and pain. In this sense, neural therapy is diagnostically and therapeutically useful in every clinical setting and pain clinic. The long-term effects of neural therapy in patients with chronic pain, which have been confirmed by recent studies, can be explained by the pathophysiology of pain. Areas of peripheral and central sensitization, neuroplasticity, neuroplasticity, engrams erasure and breaking the vicious circle (circulus vitiosus) with local anesthetics. In this way, neural therapy is a kind of "desensitization" in chronic pain conditions, in the pathological pain process.
Neural therapy utilizes the organizing and plastic properties of the nervous system: Direct stimulation (with a needle) as well as selective stimulus blocking (with local anesthetics) influence the organization of the nervous system and tissue perfusion. Thus, in painful situations, the vicious circle can be broken and the systems responsible for pain have a chance to reorganize.
There are neural therapy associations for physicians in many countries. In Germany, the International Association of Neural Therapy (according to Huneke) was founded in the 1950s. Previous presidents and current honorary presidents (Holger and Jürgen Huneke) have contributed greatly to the international reputation of neuraltherapy. Younger generations share their boundless and broad support and enthusiasm.
Hans Barop has been a major contributor to the breakthrough in recent years with his rigorous neuro-anatomical approach and a new organization of examinations and courses.
The great research efforts and the procaine work of Johann D. Hahn-Godeffroy, chairman of the scientific committee, also deserve recognition. The forward-thinking management of the current president Jürgen Rehder and the board members Uta Rehder, Imke Plischko, Hagen Huneke, Bernd Belles ensures the further development of the association (IGNH). Imke Plischko has successfully used many tools for the dissemination of neural therapy.
Around 2000 members founded a second association (DGfAN), which originated in eastern Germany and integrated neural therapy with acupuncture and manual therapy (President Rainer Wander).
Neural therapy also has an important place in Austria. The scientific and open network in Austria can be traced back on the one hand to the pioneers and Otto Bergsmann, on the other hand to the current team around the president Helmut Liertzer, and before that to Wolfgang Ortner, Elmar Ausserer, Roswitha Bergsmann, Georg Dimitriadis, Georg Feigl, Kurt Gold-Szklarski, Gabi Grögl, Gerasimos Papathanasiou, Winfried Muhri, Johanna Osztovics, Gerda Kippes, Michael Wildner and Andreas Zohmann. As President of the Austrian Medical Chamber, Walter Dorner has also done a lot for integration.
Under the leadership of Hüseyin Nazlıkul in Turkey, under the umbrella of the association they founded in 2004, they have organized a national symposium every year, an international neural therapy congress every two years and two World Neural Therapy congresses, and in a very short time they have raised a large Neural Therapy Association and integrated neural therapy into many fields of science. Hüseyin Nazlıkul's work on Neuraltherapy and Manual Medicine has attracted great interest internationally, especially in the field of physical therapy rehabilitation medicine and the understanding and treatment of pain.
In Spain, David Vinyes and his team organize courses and congresses. With great enthusiasm, Katia Puente de la Vega, together with Cristina Roqueta, Miquel Gomez and the author of this book, formed a research team to investigate the experimental basis of the Ganglion stellatum. This fundamental knowledge ensures the safety of stellatum injections and provides interesting results in the neurophysiological and cardiovascular fields.
The discussions with Armando Puente de la Vega have helped me a lot to apply theoretical approaches to practice and to clarify that the human sciences, especially in the field of pain, the psyche and soma are inseparable.
The fact that neural therapy has become a natural practice in many practices and clinics in Central and South America is undoubtedly due, first and foremost, to Armin Reimers (Mexico) and Julio Cesar Payan de la Roche (Colombia), who have organized national and international congresses, courses and brought neural therapy to universities. Armin Reimers has shown us all that it is possible to carry out tireless research alongside his intense daily work.
There are neural therapy associations in many countries [e.g. Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland (headed by President Rudolf Hausammann, first as a follower of Andreas Beck)]. The Swiss Association for Neural Therapy (Huneke-SANTH) and the Medical Association (FMH) are responsible for issuing neural therapy licenses.
At the University of Bern, there is a state-granted associate professorship (25%) in neural therapy. Some of my courses at this university are compulsory and examined. The dean Prof. Eggli and the vice deans (Prof. Stuck and Prof. Sterchi) have pioneered this.
Because the efficacy, purpose and cost-effectiveness of local and segmental neural therapy are unquestionably recognized, it is explicitly included in the catalog of services of the compulsory health insurance in Switzerland. In this major study, commissioned by the Swiss Ministry of Health, we worked with Prof. André Busata, to whom we owe many thanks.
There have also been major advances in interference fields (research, explanatory models).
You can read more about this in my book published in Nobel Medical Bookstores in 2018.
Prof. Dr. Lorenz Fischer
Foreword to the book Neuraltherapy.
* (Dissertation (Doctor medicinae) im Rahmen des postgradualen Universitätslehrganges für Ganzheitsmedizin -Regulationsmedizin "Neuraltherapie Naturheilverfahren, Regulationsverfahren und Herdgeschehen" von PD. Dr. med. Hüseyin Nazlikul 2010 Die Medizinische Fakultät Charıté
Sources I Have Used :
- Nazlikul, H: Neural Therapy Textbook
- Nazlikul, H: Neural Therapy Is Another Treatment Possible
- Atlas of Neural Therapy by H. Barop (Translator H. Nazlikul)
- The Neural Therapy Book by L. Fischer (Translator H. Nazlikul and Y. Tamam)
- James W. NcNabb (Translator H. Nazlikul and Y. Tamam) Joint and Soft Tissue Injections
- Weinschenk, S: Neuraltherapie
- Fischer, L et: Lehrbusch Integrative Schmeztherapie