What is the Neurological Integration System (NIS)?
The Neurological Integration System was developed by Dr Allan Phillips, an osteopath who has been in practice for almost 30 years. He spends most of his time in New Zealand, where he has done extensive post-graduate neurological studies and conducts ongoing research into the N.I.S system and how it increases communication between your brain and body. Your brain and nervous system controls and regulates your body through your spinal cord and nerves. Every cell, tissue, organ and system (even your immune system) take orders from your brain. When your brain and nervous system don’t work correctly, you don’t work correctly. And when you don’t work correctly, you get pain and sickness! Think of your brain as a switchboard for controlling your body, using different circuits to control different parts – nerves, bones, muscles, glands, organs, immune cells and even emotional centres. N.I.S uses a series of muscle tests to check if the different circuits are switched on, or if they have been ov