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Song of the Week: Razorlite - America​

If you are old enough…(like some of us) you may remember sitting next to an old “dial it in with a great big knob” radio looking for your favourite station. When you dialled it in correctly it sounded amazing…but when it was just slightly out…static.

Didn’t mean the song wasn’t playing at the station, didn’t mean the guy at the traffic desk wasn’t telling you about an important diversion on your way home…what it meant was that even though the information was being produced…you couldn’t benefit from it. You couldn’t enjoy the music or learn about the impending traffic jam you were about to get involved in. Every once a while you might catch a few seconds of something or other but unless you got in there and twisted the knob…useless static.

Afferentation is great. Information from the proprioceptors, golgi tendon organs and special senses are fantastic. As long as…the brain can receive it. And according to Pickar 2002 “An experimental body of evidence exists indicating that spinal manipulation impacts primary afferent neurons from paraspinal tissues, the motor control system and pain processing.”

And Heidi agrees…a lot.

“Spinal adjustments appear to alter the afferent input to the central nervous system, resulting in changes in sensorimotor integration.”​
(Haavik & Murphy, Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 2010)

“Chiropractic care changes the way the prefrontal cortex of the brain processes information, which suggests that adjustments alter central processing of afferent input.”​
(Haavik & Murphy, Clinical Neurophysiology, 2011)

“Adjustments appear to affect the brain’s ability to process sensory information and coordinate appropriate motor control, by changing afferent input from the spine.”​
(Haavik, The Reality Check, 2014

Adjusting gives clarity of signal, it tunes the radio in so that the information the brain receives has more impact than if it was tuned between stations.

We’re going to be talking a whole lot more about this in Wales this weekend with Paeds in Motion as well as in Newcastle with The Neonate and Amsterdam with Cranial Kinetics for Kids in November.

Chat soon

Mike

• 31 Oct 2025 - Student Paediatric Chiropractic Evening, Newcastle, UK​
• 1 & 2 Nov 2025 - Management of the Neonate, Newcastle, UK​
• 15 & 16 November - Amsterdam - Cranial Kinetics for Kids ​
• 29 & 30 November - Surrey, UK (Save the date, details TBA)​​

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Connected Paediatrics – Dr Mike Marinus is a registered paediatric chiropractor treating babies and children and helping chiropractors learn effective paediatric techniques that they can use in their practice

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