Neck pain induced by the biological clock

[Piergino Pedrocco]

Hi.
I need to understand if the problem can be related to the influence of reticular formation on the muscle spindle.
Best regards to everybody.
Piergino

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[Piergino Pedrocco]

Good day to everyone.
Another interesting curiosity obtained through artificial intelligence consists in the fact that there may exist abnormal connections of the superachiasmatic nucleus with other structures only in individual individuals. However, in my case there was a remission of symptoms for 3 or 4 years, which can happen, for example, in distonies.
Best wishes to all.

[agate]

maybe fluoride toothpaste

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[Piergino Pedrocco]

Dear Agate,

I apologize for not answering earlier.
I have been very busy in the last months.
I thank you for your concern.
I have started the course of Medical Neuroscience on Coursera, by professor White.
It is great.


Bye for now

Piergino Pedrocco

[agate]

I'm glad you're finding something helpful. I understand Coursera is well thought of and widely used.

[Piergino Pedrocco]

Hello everybody,

I found a paragraph entitled as follows in the Fundamentals of Neuroscience, by Larry R. Squire and Others,
"Even humoral exits from the SCN affect the rhythms of locomotor activity." (first edition, at page 920 - free translation from Italian),

Some researchers may wonder what might happen if this or a similar mechanism is altered.

Best wishes to you all.

[Piergino Pedrocco]

Hello again.

I apologize.
I was eager to report what I found, and I used the wrong term, "exits" instead of "spills" or "leakage".
So, that title would be,
"Even humoral leakage from the SCN affects the rhythms of locomotor activity", but it would be better to have the English edition.
Best wishes.

Piergino

[Piergino Pedrocco]

Hello again, even for artificial intelligence, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) can indirectly influence the tone of the neck muscles through a chain of connections with other regions of the hypothalamus that in turn project towards the brainstem, in particular towards the reticular formation, which regulates the activity of spinal and cervical motor neurons involved in the control of muscle tone.
Best wishes.

Piergino

[Piergino Pedrocco]

Hello everybody.

I have at least one follower here, I hope. Jokes aside, I asked an artificial intelligence engine why biofeedback is sometimes effective with focal dystonias.
In my case, I was unable to have a confirmed diagnosis of cervical dystonia. But the diagnosis is not important. I say, if there's a muscle tone issue, and that creates problems, there could be similar mechanisms (at night, I don't trust getting up for more than a minute or two, because I don't know how bad I might feel. That's the real problem with the disorder. Not so much the disorder itself, but the fear of not being able to handle an emergency, especially a medical one.) My symptoms were gone from approximately 2017 to 2021. At the end of 2016, I learned biofeedback. It seemed to me to have worked. With the return of the symptoms, I did a second cycle of sessions, without obtaining real results. I thought artificial intelligence would tell me that it is not known how biofeedback works. Instead, it replied that sometimes it works because it acts on sensorimotor integration. Therefore, not only is a sensory "bridge" that bypasses the dysfunction (when the brain, in governing a motor function, does not correctly process the sensory signals arriving from the sensory cortex), but what seems most important to me is the fact that it acts on brain plasticity. So I think a third biofeedback attempt is needed. Perhaps in the first attempt, I did the exercise more often during the day, and I had found it useful to follow, with my mind, mostly horizontal lines, along the edges of imaginary corners of parallelepipeds.The second time, I probably did the exercise less often during the day, favoring relaxation exercises such as autogenic training. Perhaps the first exercise, while relaxing less, is the one that can act on the plasticity of the cortex that processes spatial information.

Best wishes.

Piergino

[agate]

I have a question for you. When you say

(at night, I don't trust getting up for more than a minute or two, because I don't know how bad I might feel. That's the real problem with the disorder. Not so much the disorder itself, but the fear of not being able to handle an emergency, especially a medical one.)

I was wondering in what way would you not be able to handle an emergency? Do you have any way of summoning help somewhere near your bed where you could get at it, like a phone or a button to press?

[Piergino Pedrocco]

Dear Agate

I apologize for answering late.
Thank you.
I have a phone, or I could call someone.
I just wanted to say that I don't know what could happen to my body if I had to stay up for a long time. Lately, I've been seeing that I can get up at least half an hour earlier. Now, however, I'm trying to do biofeedback more often. I don't just follow the edges of parallelopipeds, but of any geometric figure with angles, mostly perpendicular. And probably not only the shape is important, but also the movement of an imaginary point. Perhaps the vision of a real object moving by changing direction or orientation would have a similar effect.


Bye for now

Piergino Pedrocco

[agate]

I'm afraid I know nothing about biofeedback. It sounds as if it might be difficult to get it right. It also sounds as if you've been trying hard, and I hope it will help you.

[Piergino Pedrocco]

Dear Agate

It's easy. I'm just trying again. The first time it seems to have worked. The second time, not so much. This is my third attempt. In the last two days, I have been able to read ten minutes more in the evening. It's too early to tell if it's working. And, even if it were, the idea that I'm doing an exercise for my parietal cortex is a hypothesis (Also amygdala may be involved.) Each case is different. Only a neurologist should say whether or not an exercise is good for a specific brain. I travel with my imagination along the edges of geometric figures, changing direction at the corners, and see which paths ease muscle discomfort, often changing the figures.

Bye for now.

Piergino

[agate]

Neurology seems like a comparatively new branch of science. According to AI, neurology as a science began in the mid-19th century--compared to (just one example) cardiology in 1628. I'm not sure much is really known when it comes to neurology. The patient has to use trial and error most of the time, maybe.

Try out one remedy and see if it works, and if it doesn't work or stops working, move on to another.

It goes for choice of medical providers too. Try out one neurologist, and if that person doesn't seem to be addressing your concerns, move on to another. People seem reluctant to change doctors, understandably, but often it has to happen. There are neurologists who "specialize" in certain disorders but not others, seemingly.