PubMed · 9513461
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Y Mori, K Anzai, J Ono. 1998. [Squatting test].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9513461/
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BACKGROUND: The peripheral nerve conduction velocity (NCV), distribution of nerve conduction velocities (DCV), somatosensory, visual, and brainstem auditory evoked potentials (SEP, VEP, and BAEP, respectively), event-related potential (P300), computerized static posturography with spectral analysis (postural balance), and electrocardiographic R-R interval variability (CV(RR)) with spectral analysis appear to be promising techniques for assessing subclinical effects of lead on the peripheral, central and autonomic nervous systems. This article presents an overview of research addressing subclinical neurophysiological effects of lead in workers exposed to lead. METHODS: We reviewed 102 articles to examine the effects and dose-effects relationships of lead on peripheral, central, and autonomic nervous system function together with reversibility of the effects, interaction between lead and other metals, and relative sensitivity and specificity of each technique. Background and methodology were also reviewed. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Available data suggest that, on a group basis, the reduction in the NCV, together with the effects on the P300 latency, postural balance, and CV(RR), occurs at a mean blood lead concentration (BPb) as low as 30-40 microg/dL; the effects on the latencies of the short-latency SEP, VEP, and BAEP, as well as the DCV, start at a BPb as low as 40-50 microg/dL. Further cross-sectional and preferably prospective studies by using each of those methods are needed to establish more precise dose-effects (and response) relationships of lead.
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BACKGROUND: The collective experience of the chiropractic profession is that aberrant stimulation at a particular level of the spine may elicit a segmentally organized response, which may manifest itself in dysfunction within organs receiving autonomic innervation at that level. This experience is at odds with classic views of neuroscientists about the potential for somatic stimulation of spinal structures to affect visceral function. OBJECTIVE: To review recent findings from basic physiologic research about the effects of somatic stimulation of spinal structures on autonomic nervous system activity and the function of dependent organs. DATA SOURCE: Findings were drawn from a major recent review of the literature on the influences of somatic stimulation on autonomic function and from recent original physiologic studies concerning somatoautonomic and spinovisceral reflexes. CONCLUSIONS: Recent neuroscience research supports a neurophysiologic rationale for the concept that aberrant stimulation of spinal or paraspinal structures may lead to segmentally organized reflex responses of the autonomic nervous system, which in turn may alter visceral function.