Blue Portance framework concept
Natural postures
A repertoire of positions and transitions in which the body can keep adjusting its balance and support.
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Blue Portance · Living reference
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Neurodynamics · functional reading
Nerve compression
Nerve compression is the application of mechanical stress to a nerve by the tissues or structures that surround it. Depending on its intensity and duration, it can disrupt nerve circulation and conduction.
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Neurodynamics · functional reading
Nerve gliding
Nerve gliding refers to the movement of a nerve relative to the surrounding tissues during movements of the limbs, the spine or the pelvis.
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Functional model · SBNFA™
Nerve mechanical tolerance
In the SBNFA™ framework, nerve mechanical tolerance refers to the presumed functional capacity of a nerve and its surroundings to tolerate certain combinations of tension, compression, gliding and duration without triggering or worsening symptoms.
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Clinical term
Neuropathic pain
Neuropathic pain is pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system.
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Neurophysiology · functional reading
Neuroplasticity
Neuroplasticity is the nervous system's ability to change its structure and function in response to experience, learning, injury or changes in the environment.
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Functional model · SBNFA™
Neurosensory deprogramming
Neurosensory deprogramming refers, in the functional model developed by Blue Portance from the work of Pierre Ivaldi, to the progressive loss of the nervous system’s ability to calibrate its response correctly based on the sensory information it actually receives.
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Functional model · SBNFA™
Neurosensory reprogramming
In the functional model developed by Blue Portance from the work of Pierre Ivaldi, neurosensory reprogramming refers to a gradual new learning process that allows the nervous system to rebuild a better-calibrated response to the sensory information it receives.
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Neurophysiology · functional reading
Nociception
Nociception is the process by which the nervous system detects and encodes stimuli that are potentially damaging to tissues. It is not the same as pain, which is an experience.
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Clinical term
Nociceptive pain
Nociceptive pain is pain related to actual or threatened damage to non-neural tissue, resulting from the activation of nociceptors. The somatosensory nervous system is functioning normally.
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Clinical term
Nociplastic pain
Nociplastic pain is pain arising from altered nociception, without clear evidence of tissue damage activating nociceptors, or of a lesion or disease of the somatosensory system sufficient to explain the pain.
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