Conjugate Gaze Reflex Techniques

Dear Dr. Shapiro,
I am a chiropractic physician and have developed a technique that employs periferal reflex contacts to stimulate nervous system responses to the site of somatic dysfunctions. This technique is grounded in an already well established method known as sacro-occipital technique. In developing this technique, I have found that the use of conjugate eye movements directed toward the side of somatic weakness or organ stasis tends to increase metabolic activity on the side of lateral gaze.
A patient suffering with irritable bowel syndrome and ileo-cecal valve spasm found almost instant relief when a periferal reflex contact was held on the ileo-cecal valve, and five conjugate gazes were performed toward the side of contact. I have also found that muscle weakness always tends to strengthen on the side of lateral gaze, and can be easily tested by randomly testing the deltoid on any willing subject. Dr. George Goodheart has also documented a phenomenon known as "ocular lock" in this same regard.
I believe that conjugate eye gazes when voluntarily performed increase corticospinal and corticobulbar activity on the side of lateral gaze and decrease this activity on the opposite side. The possibilities for this technique and the implications that EMDR has opened in basic research has contributed greatly to the formulation of my ideas.
I am presently in the process of developing a paper on this techniuqe which I hope to deliver to an international conference in the fall. If you are interested in these developments I would be happy to keep you appraised.
For any one else who may be interested I can be E-mailed at magnolia@wtco.net. My practice is in Waterbury, Ct.
Thank you and best wishes,
Vincent L. Perri

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Re: Conjugate Gaze Reflex Techniques, by Francine Shapiro, 12/31/99

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