Abstract
We aim for this contribution to operate bi-directionally, both as a “bedside to bench” reverse-translational fractal physiological hypothesis and as a methodological innovation to inform clinical practice. In 25 years using gym equipment therapeutically in non-research settings, the standardized therapy is consistently observed to trigger universal responses of micro to macro waves of system transition dynamics in the human nervous system. These are associated with observably desirable impacts on disorders, injuries, diseases, and athletic performance. Requisite conditions are therapeutic coaching, erect posture, extremely slow movements in mild resistance exercises, and executive control over arousal and attention. To motivate research into the physiological improvements and in validation studies, we integrate from across disciplines to hypothesize explanations for the relationships among the methods, the system dynamics, and evident results. Key hypotheses include: (1) Correctly-directed system efforts may reverse a system's heretofore misdirected efforts, restoring healthier neurophysiology. (2) The enhanced information processing accompanying good posture is an essential initial condition. (3) Behaviors accompanying exercises performed with few degrees of freedom amplify information processing, triggering destabilization and transition dynamics. (4) Executive control over arousal and attention is essential to release system constraints, amplifying and complexifying information. (5) The dynamics create necessary and in many cases evidently sufficient conditions for the body to resolve or improve its own conditions within often short time periods. Literature indicates how the human system possesses material self-awareness. A broad explanation for the nature and effects of the therapy appears rooted in the cascading recursions of the systems' dynamics, which appear to trigger health-fostering self-reorganizing processes when this therapy provides catalytic initial conditions.
Highlights
This article’s contribution operates bi-directionally, both as a “bedside to bench” reverse-translational physiological hypothesis and as a methodological innovation to inform clinical practice
Since we find no similar therapies or human body dynamics of the kind reported in the literature, we seek to motivate such research interest by hypothesizing scientific explanations for the therapy’s relationship with the body’s system dynamics and evident health effects
It seems to us that the overall explanation for the nature and effects of the therapy lies in nature of a complex living system, the recursive nature of the body’s edge-of-chaos dynamics, the means of conducting those multi-scale recursions, and how it uses the information and energy therein
Summary
This article’s contribution operates bi-directionally, both as a “bedside to bench” reverse-translational physiological hypothesis and as a methodological innovation to inform clinical practice. Since we find no similar therapies or human body dynamics of the kind reported in the literature, we seek to motivate such research interest by hypothesizing scientific explanations for the therapy’s relationship with the body’s system dynamics and evident health effects. The body’s response to the properly performed techniques is a series of observable selforganizing transitions at micro and macro levels described below. These phenomena appear to catalyze (if not represent) significant healing processes in clients with a wide range of debilitating conditions, injuries, and diseases. To set the contexts of our hypothesizing, the article begins with the therapy’s historical background, an introduction to observed system dynamics triggered by the method, and a two-part review section. Hypothesizing the body’s genius ways to test a number of them, and a concluding synthesis of conclusions about the body’s genius
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