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Workshop 6
NEURALTHERAPY AS INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE IN ENT
Gregor Fischer
Austrian Medical Association of Neuraltherapy, Krems, Austria
Integrative medicine is a new term that emphasises the combination of both conventional and alternative
approaches to address the biological, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of health and illness.
Neural therapy (NT) is a holistic method of therapy and a technique of regulation medicine using local
anaesthetics for local, segmental techniques, injections to ganglions or to nerves.
Main topics in NT are pain therapy, treatment of functional diseases and solutions for distur-bance fields.
Working at an ENT-Department with evidence based medicine (EBM) is fined a lot of pa-tients who don’t effort on
EBM-therapy. In that case I use NT as integrative medicine. In my lecture I’ll give a selection of the principles and
techniques of NT especially in the head and neck region.
The main focus will be testing and treatment of disturbance fields.
INTRODUCTION IN PRACTICAL NEURAL THERAPY
Wolfgang Ortner
Austrian Medical Association of Neuraltherapy, Hof/Lbg., Austria
The main columns of the diagnostic procedure are
History Taking, Inspection, Palpation and Functional Examination
History taking
The quality of the diagnosis of disorders depends to a large extent on targeted and specific history taking. A well
detailed history helps to minimize the number of tedious and expensive diagnostic tests required. The first impression
(gait pattern, posture, etc) and the complaints primarily stated (reason for contact) determine the way in which the
experienced therapist directs the exploration.
Inspection:
First look - First impression (Gait pattern, coordination of movement),
Stance (body language), First contact (hand grip, eye contact)
Inspection at rest and moving
Palpation:
Palpation of connective tissue:
a. Light-touch palpation to realize superficial indications of regulatory disorders
b. Connective tissue palpation for tension, subtile swelling and turgor of the subcutis.
c. Kibler skin fold rolling as an expression of the segmental regulation in the dermatome can give information about
possible pathological conditions of the associated myotome, sclerotome or internal organs.
d. In-depth palpation to examine deeper-lying soft tissue structures such as muscular myogeloses, trigger points and
fasciae.
Functional examination
In principle: “From head to foot”
Auxiliary findings
A major competence of the therapist is the overview of all the findings and the critical assessment of auxiliary
findings (diagnostic tests, specialists’ opinions). Physical examination in the form of palpation and functional diagnosis
also reveals disorders and pathologies that have not (yet) been established by diagnostic tests. Subtile findings such
as limited tumescence (turgidity) of soft tissues may be indicative of clinically no apparent disorders. Conversely,
feigned symptoms or falsified diagnostic test results may be called into question as the result of soft tissue palpation
void of any pathological finding.
Therapeutic procedere
In actual practice the combination of various injection techniques is typical. The neural therapist will adapt his
approach to his range of experience and training. The effect of the therapy will depend less on the type of technique
than on an exact examination and the correct inferred biocybernetic idea of the disorder. Also simple techniques
prove to be effective if the hypothetic considerations correlate to reality.
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