PROMOTING BILATERAL SYMMETRY IN THE BODY THROUGH AN EASTERN MEDICAL APPROACH EXAMINING THE CHAOTIC NATURE OF PULSE WAVES USING A NECK ROTATION TASK VIA SOTAI THERAPY

Sotai (natural motion) therapy offers new therapeutic potential from an Eastern medicine perspective for patients suffering chronic pain, in which plastic changes with pain regulation in the central nervous system and peripheral nervous systems, psychological factors, and the like retard medical treatment because they contribute to the formation of clinical conditions. In this study interventions will be performed via sotai therapy with the goal of improving motion imbalances that are related to chronic pain on healthy men and women in their 20s in order to obtain basic knowledge. It will consider: (1) The validity of intervening from areas of the body that are somewhat removed from the target area by hypothesizing the body’s coordinative structures and (2) The validity of using LLE to assess the accuracy of perceptions of bodily sensations as well as the therapeutic results from sotai therapy from this, with the goal of contributing to scientific explanations of sotai therapy in terms of its therapeutic potential for chronic pain.