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Cultivating Aliveness after Pregnancy Loss
Published in Nora Swan-Foster, Art Therapy and Childbearing Issues, 2020
With each creative emotional dive into my grief, I fill my blue glass grief-bowl with water, and I light three tealight candles—one for each of my babies. Prior to beginning a new page, I close my eyes and turn my attention inward to listen to what my body intuitively wants. Sensations of rage, anger and indescribable grief feel stuck in my solar plexus. I ask my body what it wants and my hands claw into the air as if wanting to tear. I listen and use an exacto knife and find myself repetitively cutting and carving circles into pages of the book. It feels satisfying in my body to carve circles and I hold curiosity and wonder what I am seeking to discover here. Circle after circle cuts make it through the page. I eventually learn that they represent my aging eggs and waning fertility as well as windows into the next pages of my unknown future.
Voluntary and reflex action and the autonomic nervous system
Published in Nan Stalker, Pain Control, 2018
These nerves supply the blood vessels, sweat and sebaceous glands, and the muscles which raise the hairs of the skin. In certain regions where there are many organs requiring a nerve supply, there are additional ganglia between the two chains, linked by nerves with the chains and with one another, and supplying nerves to neighbouring organs. These are called plexus. Behind the heart in the thoracic region is the cardiac plexus and just below the diaphragm is the solar plexus, where the stomach, liver, spleen, kidneys and pancreas are found.
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Published in Anton Sebastian, A Dictionary of the History of Medicine, 2018
Lobstein Ganglion Accessory ganglion of the great sympathetic system in connection with the solar plexus. Described by Johann Georg Christian Martin Lobstein (1777–1835), professor of pathology and clinical medicine at Strasburg in 1823. He also described osteogenesis imperfecta (Lobstein syndrome) in 1833. See osteogenesis imperfecta.
The effect of reflexology on labor pain, anxiety, labor duration, and birth satisfaction in primiparous pregnant women: a randomized controlled trial
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2021
Semra Akköz Çevik, İlknur Incedal
Reflexology is a method which uses certain techniques to simulate the nerve points in order to emit electrochemical messages. This enables to decrease tension and stress experienced concerning physical problems by benefiting from neurons to stimulate the related organs, ultimately keeping the body in balance. Massage and skin contact made along with reflexology help to release enkephalins and endorphins, hence stopping neural transmission of the pain message to the brain, decreasing anxiety and pain level, and enabling their bodies to excrete toxins as a result of stimulated lymph and blood flow. During the first stage of labor, reflexology is performed on the solar plexus of both of feet alongside brain-spinal cord, spleen, thyroid, intestinal, and uterine-vaginal-over reflex points. It is effective in stimulating the release of oxytocin, regulating contractions during delivery, inducing relaxation during contractions, reducing pain levels, and shortening delivery time in order to stimulate uterine contractions during labor (Dolation et al., 2011; Tabur & Başaran, 2009; Yılar & Pasinlioğlu, 2016, 2017).
‘Neurasthenia gastrica’ revisited: perceptions of nerve-gut interactions in nervous exhaustion, 1880–1920
Published in Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease, 2018
As to how the different nerve centers could communicate with each other, and thus produce symptoms from several parts of the body when an ‘irritable weakness’ of the nervous system had developed, there were no definite answers, but several theories. George Beard, for instance, based his views on reflex theory: ‘The body is a bundle of reflex actions. An irritation in one part is liable to produce an irritation in some other part’ [19, pp. 41–42]. This was ‘true of all parts of the body’, he continued, but he singled out the stomach as one of the most important of the reflex centers. McClure pointed to the importance of the exhaustion of the vagus centres [40], while William van Valzah and J. Douglas Nisbet, on the other hand, assumed that the communication between the gut and the nervous system occurred primarily through the solar plexus: The solar plexus, receiving all the impressions from the abdominal and thoracic organs, is very intimately associated with the cerebrum. Through it sensation, thought, and emotion influence digestion. Through it and the pneumogastric nerves digestion affects the activity of the brain. (…) It is the connecting link between the moral, the intellectual, and the vegetative life. (…) It is this highest and greatest assemblage of sympathetic centers which unites the nervous symptoms of neurasthenia gastrica. [37, p. 336]
A minimum area discrepancy method (MADM) for force displacement response correlation
Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2019
Jeremie Peres, Christophe Bastien, Jesper Christensen, Zahra Asgharpour
The chest compression was measured using the horizontal relative displacement between the solar plexus and the rear spine (between nodes A and B in Figure 6). In Figure 6, the front of the thorax is represented by the mass m1, and the back represented by m3. The chest impact force is simply extracted from spring K12, which is the spring connecting the impactor mass to the thorax, i.e. at position m1.