What are Axial Spinal Reflexes or ASRs?
Every Human Body Utilizes Axial Spinal Reflexes (ASR’s). Axial Spinal Reflexes are hardwired into our nervous systems. No aspect of our physical body can bypass this basic pathway (the spine) or remain unaffected by these fundamental reflex reactions. ASR’s are believed to have originated as a defense mechanism, a way for our bodies to sense danger and move away from it, even before our brains registered the threat (the way you would instantly duck your head away from something that brushed against it from behind). Our Modern lifestyle, ‘turns on’ ASR’s in a number of ways including stress, repetitive motion, poor ergonomics, diet, environmental and dietary toxins, lack of exercise, trauma and much more. ASR’s routinely get “stuck on” and resulting pain, dysfunction, and performance impairment develops.
