Human Repair-Neurophysiology is a new discipline in medicine which is not organized and funded. It combines human anatomy, human neurophysiology and the repair of the human central nervous system. The repair of the human nervous system is achieved through movement-based learning. A therapy was developed, called Coordination Dynamics Therapy, which is based on the functioning of the human nervous system, measured by human electrophysiology. To explore the human nervous system by electrophysiological methods is logic because the nervous system is functioning mainly via voltages and currents. The repair of the injured, malfunctioning or degenerating nervous system is achieved through the improvement of the coordinated firing of neurons and the plasticity of the human nervous system. In animals, as for example the rat, repair is achieved through the nerve fiber growing strategy and in human through learning. The main difference between the animal and the human nervous system is the complexity of their neural networks. In animals the nervous system needs a few months to develop and in human nearly 20 years. Through the tremendous complexity of the human nervous system, the human neural networks can nearly learn everything, including its repair. Since the nervous system is involved in nearly all body functions, the repair or the improvement of neural network functioning improves health in general. Many diseases can be treated by coordination dynamics therapy.
In Chapter 1 a partial repair (regeneration) of the human spinal cord is achieved by movement-based learning. When in Chapter 2 an orthopedic surgeon tried to compete with the natural repair by an operation, the spinal cord injury patient got worse. Already Hippocrates had the opinion that the true healer is the body itself. In Chapter 3, a malformation or degeneration of the cerebellum and pons got partly repaired through movement-based learning and in Chapter 4 the basal ganglia and the cortex. All the patients were children. In boys and girls under 10 years of age nearly everything is possible through repair if the patients can be motivated to train at their limits. But how to motivate a child to train very hard. They want to play and not train something what they do not understand. Mothers are most successful to administer the therapy if they know what they have to train with their child.
In brain-injured patients the higher mental functions are most important to be repaired. According to the System Theory of Pattern Formation, there is learning transfer from movements to the cognitive functions. In Chapter 3 and 4 also the higher mental functions of the patients improved through learning.
To administer movement-based learning with 15 to 20 hours per week for a few years, the repair progress has to be measured to motivate the patient and be sure that the treatment works. When exercising on the special coordination dynamics therapy device, the improvement of the coordinated firing of neurons can also be measured by one value, namely the arrhythmicity of exercising. When a subject is exercising on a special coordination dynamics therapy device, the coordination between arm and leg movements changes from pace to trot gait. The central nervous system functioning is then measured by the arrhythmicity of exercising through ‘Movement Pattern Change’ according to the System Theory of Pattern Formation. The improvement of nervous system functioning can be judged by the coordination dynamics value and the improvement of movement patterns.
This progress in the repair of the human nervous system was achieved because of the development of the single-nerve fiber action potential recording method. By recording with two pairs of wire electrodes from thin sacral nerve roots in the cauda equina, it is measured simultaneously what impulse patterns are conducted into the central nervous system and what are conducted out of it; that means the functioning of the human nervous system can be analyzed under physiologic and pathologic conditions at the single-neuron level. It was measured that the phase and frequency coordination among neuron firings becomes impaired through injury, malformation and degeneration. By improving this organization principle of the human central nervous system, when exercising on the special coordination dynamics therapy device, and training movement patterns, especially movement automatisms, other parts of the brain will take function over by plasticity. The human nervous system can be repaired or improved in its functioning at all ages.
To live longer with a better quality of life by 10 to 20 years is already achieved now through coordination dynamics therapy because cardio-vascular performance and nervous system functioning can be improved and cancer grows inhibited.
