The goal of this Intensive is to renew your clarity about what you do in everyday practice, no matter what technique you use or your specialisation. It is now well recognised that the effects of chiropractic go beyond the mechanical. Our neuroscience understanding is rapidly evolving, offering us many opportunities to describe the changes that we observe in our patients' nervous systems. This pursuit requires an intimate knowledge of the fundamental building blocks that we work with - mechanoreceptors and neural connections that are plastic and mouldable.

Every day we see spines that are in a state of dysfunction and pain, and our job is to attach recognised diagnoses to them. But do we ever stop to ask what has already failed in a patient's nervous system when they suffer a tissue injury - such as a disc lesion or facet synovitis? And what factors might then 'tip' their central nervous system further towards a state of chronic pain?

Ultimately, our neuromusculoskeletal systems are suffering as a direct result of our modern lifestyle. Movement patterns are less variable and more repetitive. Disused neural connections fade, while brain maps of joint motion shrink to the level of our movement poverty. Intensive 2 takes a close look at how these changes occur and what we can do to reverse them.