In November 1999 Dr Neil Davies concluded a 20 year association with RMIT University as one of their clinical lecturers in chiropractic and diagnostic sciences to move to Ballarat and open Kiro Kids Family Chiropractic (now Ballarat Family Health Care), a clinic originally devoted solely to the care of children and adolescents. Over a long period of time he had developed a system of very light force chiropractic based on the expanding knowledge base of the function of the human brain. 

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Dr Neil abandoned the practice of manipulation completely as this new and more effective form of neurological chiropractic became increasingly sophisticated in its modelling and application. NeuroImpulse Protocol™ is now so popular that Kiro Kids Family Chiropractic is sponsoring its formal teaching in many countries throughout Asia, North America, Africa, and Europe.   

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In 1997 when Dr Neil was working as a lecturer at RMIT University he was offered a publication agreement by Churchill Livingstone, one of the world's largest medical publishing houses. Dr Neil consulted with a wide range of paediatricians and other medical specialists and in 2000 published the first edition of Chiropractic Paediatrics: A clinical handbook. It was so well received by both the chiropractic profession and chiropractic educators it lead one of the professors from an American University to write that it was “the best chiropractic textbook that has ever been written.” The second edition was published in 2010.

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What is NIP™?

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NIP™ is referred to as a ‘tonal technique’ because its intent is to normalise the natural tone held in the nervous system. Imagine that your nervous system has a volume control - if you turn the volume up too much it causes distortion - this distortion function in the nervous system can and does manifest as musculoskeletal stress and pain, internal organ dysfunction and diminished immune response. Similar inappropriate responses are also seen when the volume is set too low. When the volume is set wrongly the nervous system sends distorted messages to the body, adversely affecting tone. The result is sluggish body function with a slowing of normal responses. You may become aware of this as weakness in your muscles which are now not supporting your skeletal framework adequately leading to pain and discomfort. 

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How Does NIP™ Work?

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NIP™ corrects these problems of increased or decreased neurological tone by optimizing the integrative functions of the brain. NIP™ is based on correcting nerve interference primarily at the spine where the dura attaches, but quite definitely throughout the entire body. The sites at which the dura attaches are the skull, upper neck and low back area and therefore that is where your Kiro Kids chiropractors will focus most of their attention. All NIP™ chiropractors include cranial bone adjusting along with their NIP™ procedures to make sure the stresses that can affect the skull are relieved. 

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NIP™ is based on gentle touch and very light thrusting. This very specific, low force adjusting method allows your nervous system to better interpret and integrate the sensory input from the thrust and to appropriately process it throughout the brain and spinal cord.

 

Brain integration tends to be more complete because analysis and correction are not limited to the area of pain. The healing experience is deeper, involving not only the body, but the mind and emotions.

 

NIP™ releases tensions in the spinal cord and brain by making corrections of spinal and other subluxations which affect the tension normally held in the dura (hard fibrous layer of the meninges which covers and protects the brain and cord). Release of tension in this finely balanced body system can lead to profound neurological changes with attendant benefits to overall health.

 

The primary intent of NIP™ is to progressively reduce abnormal tension throughout the entire body, including the extremities and head, to release trapped unresolved patterns of dysfunction in the body/mind and to facilitate reintegration of the nervous system.  

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