HANS: Neurological Integration Comes to the Fraser Valley

HANS: Neurological Integration Comes to the Fraser Valley

At the age of four, Evan Varley was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. He started on applied behavior analysis therapy in addition to physical, occupational and speech therapies as a part of his treatments.

Evan eventually started on the bio-medical approach to autism that included a change in his diet. His mom Claudette Varley tried for two years to get him to eat gluten-, dairy- and egg-free. Nothing worked. "My fear was, he'll end up eating nothing," she recalls. " I need something else that would help heal his gut."

Then in 2011, a breakthrough. Varley brought her son to see a Neurological Integration System (NIS) practitioner at Klinik Vanouver (klinikvancouver.com). NIS is completely non-invasive, an important factor especially for her son. Since his NIS treatment, Evan's constipation, sleep and behavioral issues have largely improved.

Varley decided to try NIS for herself. For 10 years, she'd been taking pills for hypothyroidism, fibromyalgia, and sleep issues. After NIS, she has been off all her meds.

After these positive results, Varley became a qualified NIS pracitioner to help others heal. As a registered nurse with 20 years' experience, she is used to assessing patients. " I'm still assessing, just in a different way," she says.

"[NIS] gets to more of the root of the problem, and fixing the root cause as opposed to just looking at the symptom. Three people might come to see her fir allergies, she says, but the root cause might be completely different for each.

NIS has long been popular in New Zealand, Australia and Germany and slowly coming to North America. as far as she knows, Varley is the only NIS practitioner in B.C.'s Fraser Valley.

One fan is Marjorie Perzow, a former nurse and a member of Health Action Network Society (HANS).  "Claudette is professional, pays attention to details in her sessions and is passionate about doing this work," Marjorie wrote.

How does NIS work? "NIS is based on the neurophysiology principle that the brain governs optimum function of all body's systems," says Varley. From time to time circuits in the body become disconnected.  Stressors can be physical, emotional, hormonal, neurological, pathological or structural.

To find the disconnect, Varley runs through a set of over 30 protocols. Different protocols determine the presence of viruses, bacteria, fungus and parasites. There are two new protocols, one for histamine, which helps the body deal with allergens, and virus in bone marrow, which addresses low white blood cell counts.

NIS uses principles of kinesiology and the Chinese meridian system. The client sits with an arm stretched out; Varley does a muscle test while contacting specific anatomical points, like pulse points that correlate to glands and organs in the body.

Once a weakness is determined, Varley taps on the area of the head called the post central gyrus. This "tapping" while still holding the contact points tells the brain to reconnect the neurological circuitry. "Like your fuse has been blown and I'm just reconnecting that fuse."

Kerm Sheenk first visited Varley in June 2011 to relieve her frequent headaches. "After my first treatment, I didn't have a headache for two weeks," Kerm recalled.  She continued to see Varley for the next few months and noticed a marked reduction in headaches.

NIS can be especially helpful with pathogens, hormonal imbalances, mercury toxicity and right/left hemisphere imbalance (presenting as language or speech issues, learning difficulties, ADD/ADHD, autism), says Varley.

Today Evan is seven years old and doing well at school. "He has done above and beyond my expectations."

Claudette Varley, New Leaf Wellness, (604) 850-2511  www.newleafwellness.net

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