A practitioner’s nervous system produces a variety of sensory, motor and CAN / central autonomic network responses when it detects changes in a patient’s physiology. Practitioners often pay attention to select sensory responses when they assess a patient, e.g., touch sensations, and overlook the CAN responses their nervous system produces.
Contemporary science conclusively shows that CAN responses provide vital insights that other responses do not provide. If a practitioner overlooks key CAN responses that their nervous system produces, they will miss-out on significant clinical insights. Additional CAN insights commonly enhance clinical certainty and the ability to produce positive outcomes more consistently.
Enhancing Awareness of Internal CAN Responses (Interoception)
Enhancing awareness of CAN responses requires a unique set of attention skills. These can be learned, but they are quite different from the skills that help enhance awareness of conventional sensory responses.
The Access Workshop presents proven, science-based strategies that reliably enhance awareness of key CAN responses. The workshop enables practitioners to bypass extensive 'trial and error' learning curves and to start experiencing the benefits of enhanced CAN perception in their practice.
Most practitioners can readily enhance their awareness of key CAN responses after learning essential attention strategies. If a practitioner attempts to develop heightened CAN perception skills without this background, it can take a substantial amount of time and effort.
Yes. Neuroscience, e.g., psychophysiology, has a long history of using autonomic responses as objective indicators to study stimuli that the nervous system detects. Using CAN responses as clinical assessment indicators is an application of this.
Yes. Heightened awareness of CAN responses can help a practitioner rapidly identify 'salient' sites, e.g., areas of potential dysfunction. This skill set can also assist a practitioner to discern specific contact points and force application vectors after a site has been selected.