Neuro Emotional Technique

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Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) is a psychotherapeutic/chiropractic system that combines a number of techniques and principles from traditional Chinese medicine, chiropractic and applied kinesiology.[1] It is an holistic approach to well-being focusing on imbalances in the structure of the skeletomuscular system, unresolved "negative emotional blocks", toxins in the body, and deficiencies in nutrition.

NET describes "negative emotional complexes" (NEC)[2] as being stored in the body, and claims to help release or resolve them. It was originally formulated by chiropractor Scott Walker[3] in the early 1980s, and dealt primarily with vertebral subluxations. Scott Walker claims that NET is not a form of Psychotherapy even though it deals with emotional blocks.[4] Anecdotally, patients reported they were less stressed, happier, and felt more at ease after treatment with NET. Some reports in the chiropractic literature support the effectiveness of NET.

Criticisms

NET bases assessments of the structure, toxins, nutrition, and emotions of a patient on applied kinesiology (muscle testing).[5] Applied Kinesiology has been criticized on theoretical and empirical grounds [6] as a pseudoscience.[7]

Research

When used to treat emotional trauma in a group of seven cancer patients, improvements of up to 88% were shown in symptom reduction.[8] Another study found NET provided improvements in chronic neck pain sufferers over a control group receiving a sham protocol of NET.[9] Another study found that following NET treatment a professionally diagnosed case of Separation Anxiety Disorder was no longer present, though further research is needed to validate any causal relationship.[10]

Notes

  1. ↑ Chaitow 2005, p. 124.
  2. ↑ Cooperstein & Gleberzon 2004, p. 91.
  3. ↑ Cooperstein & Gleberzon 2004, p. 91.
  4. ↑ Cooperstein & Gleberzon 2004, p. 93.
  5. ↑ Barrett, Stephen (2009-03-10). "Applied Kinesiology: Phony Muscle-Testing for 'Allergies' and 'Nutrient Deficiencies'". Quackwatch. 
  6. ↑ Carroll, Robert Todd. "Applied kinesiology". The Skeptic's Dictionary (online ed.). Retrieved 2007-07-26. "These are empirical claims and have been tested and shown to be false" 
  7. ↑ Atwood, Kimball C., IV (2004). "Naturopathy, pseudoscience, and medicine: Myths and fallacies vs truth". Medscape General Medicine 6 (1): 33. PMC 1140750. PMID 15208545. 
  8. ↑ Monti, Daniel A.; Stoner, Marie E.; Zivin, Gail; Schlesinger, Martha (2007). "Short term correlates of the Neuro Emotional Technique for cancer-related traumatic stress symptoms: A pilot case series". Journal of Cancer Survivorship 1 (2): 161–6. doi:10.1007/s11764-007-0018-x. PMID 18648957. 
  9. ↑ Bablis, Peter; Pollard, Henry; Bonello, Rod (2008). "Neuro Emotional Technique for the treatment of trigger point sensitivity in chronic neck pain sufferers: A controlled clinical trial". Chiropractic & Osteopathy 16: 4. doi:10.1186/1746-1340-16-4. PMC 2427032. PMID 18495042. 
  10. ↑ Karpouzis, Fay; Pollard, Henry; Benello, Rod (2008). "Separation anxiety disorder in a 13-year–old boy managed by the Neuro Emotional Technique as a biopsychosocial intervention". Journal of Chiropractic Medicine 7 (3): 101–6. doi:10.1016/j.jcm.2008.05.003. PMC 2686398. PMID 19646371. 

References

  • Cooperstein, Robert; Gleberzon, Brian J. (2004). Technique Systems in Chiropractic. Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 9780443074134. 
  • Chaitow, Leon (2005). Cranial Manipulation: Theory and Practice (2nd ed.). Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 9780443074493. 
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