Neuromuscular Therapy
Using only hands, a Neuromuscular Therapist pinpoints your stiff muscles and exact location of your pain, stiffness, numbness, or weakness. Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT) specifically locates and releases your tight muscles and trigger points getting to the CAUSE or source of your pain. According to Dr. Janet Travell, generally recognized as the leading pioneer in diagnosis and treatment of muscle pain, trigger points are a component up to 93 percent of the muscle pains seen in pain clinics, and the SOLE cause of such pain as much as 85 percent of the time.
Your muscles make up a HUGE part of your body. When your body has physical trauma, strains, or emotional stress, your muscles are strongly affected. Yet, until recently the muscles and trigger points have been largely overlooked as a major cause for your pain. Now, studies show your muscles, particularly trigger points, play a big role in terms of health and dysfunction to the overall economy of your body and its ability to function well.
What causes YOUR pain?
NMT identifies 5 sources of pain:
- Ischemia is a lack of blood supply to your muscles causing them to become very sensitive to the touch. Go ahead and make a fist for 10 seconds and open it. See how “pale” your skin looks from no blood flow? When your muscles are tight or in spasm throughout the day, blood and oxygen are not optimally nourishing your cells and eliminating waste products. Also, good circulation in your muscles is a key component to fighting disease and superb health.
- Trigger Points are small “knots” in your muscles that when compressed create referred pain locally or to other areas of your body. For example, do you ever feel like your neck muscles create a pounding headache behind your eye, base of your skull, or anywhere in your head? Or do your shoulder muscles when tight from sitting in front of a computer produce numbness or pain down your arms, even into your hands?Often, the source of your pain stems from other areas and is simply a trigger point waiting to be released. No amount of Advil or stretching fully releases your trigger points. Only releasing them by hand does.
- Nerve compression or entrapment is pressure on a nerve by muscles or bone. Who do you know who has complained of Sciatica? Because so many of us sit all day, this “pain in the butt” is commonly caused by your hip muscle called the piriformis pushing on your sciatic nerve creating pain deep in your hip and even down your leg.Or, so many people today are wrongly diagnosed with Carpel Tunnel Syndrome when the CAUSE of their arm and hand pain comes from their neck. Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS) is a perfect example.Because of poor posture and slumping at the computer for 8 hours a day, our neck and shoulder muscles begin tightening around the nerves and arteries. Well, guess what? These nerves and arteries just happen to run down our arms..So when they’re squeezed and compressed in your neck and shoulder you feel pain all the way into your arm and hand.. This is so common among computer workers that one could say that Bill Gates has been a huge supporter of the medical industry.
- Postural distortion is an imbalance (too weak or tight) of your muscles which pulls your body out of alignment. Computer-shoulder and forward-head posture are perfect examples.Stand in front of a mirror and check out your alignment. Is one of your shoulders or hips higher or lower than the other? Does your pelvis feel tilted or rotated more than it should be? Do you stand favoring one side? Look down at your feet. Do they turn outward or inward? These are all postural distortions that when corrected and eliminated restore proper posture and get rid of pain.
- Biomechanical dysfunction is an imbalance of your muscles and bones resulting in improper movement patterns. Spend a few minutes watching people walk and you notice how common it is to swing one arm more, favor one side, or be stuck in improper movement patterns. This constant straining of certain muscles frequently leads to many aches and pains and is re-educated with neuromuscular therapy.
What conditions does NMT help?
NMT successfully addresses and eliminates pain associated with: Back Pain, Neck Pain, Shoulder Pain, Headaches, Migraines, Carpal Tunnel, Herniated Discs, Scoliosis, Knee, Hip, Foot, or Joint Pain, Rotator Cuff (shoulder problems), Sports Injuries, TMJ, Whiplash, Tennis Elbow, Fibromyalgia, Osteoarthritis, Plantar Faciitis, Torticollis, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, Shin Splints, Tendonitis, Spasms, Cramps, Strains, Postural Distortions, Post Polio Syndrome, Poor Posture, Stress, Tension, and more…
NMT gets to the SOURCE of your pain, whether you experience an aching, throbbing, burning, stabbing, tingling, piercing, grinding, tension, stiffness, restriction, clicking or pounding sensation.
In the 1930’s Dr. Stanley Lief, a trained Chiropractor and Naturopathic Physician along with his cousin Boris Chaitow also trained in chiropractic and naturopathy experimented with neuromuscular treatments for muscular pain at Leif’s world-famous health resort in Hertfordshire, England.
The treatment was so successful that their neuromuscular technique became common practice in osteopathic and sports therapy venues all over Europe.
Over the next several decades, two American Doctors, Dr. Janet Travell and Dr. David Simons, published a two volume set of textbooks titled “The Trigger Point Manual on Upper Body and Lower Body Pain” that identified with documentation, research, and references that the Source of most pain is “knots” in your muscles.
A whole new field of study for chronic pain was introduced to the medical, dental, massage, and therapeutic communities called-Neuromuscular Therapy.
Dr. Janet Travell went on to become the first woman White House Physician and the personal physician to President John F. Kennedy.
President Kennedy credits her Trigger Point Neuromuscular Therapy as the only effective treatment for his debilitating back pain that was so crippling he considered stepping down as President.
Proven Treatment for Pain
Dr. Travell identified very sensitive areas found in your muscles as the root CAUSE of pain 93% of the time.
She called these sensitive areas “trigger points” and by releasing these “trigger points” the stress on the muscles is released and the pain is eliminated.
What causes these “trigger points”?
- Stress, anxiety, and constant worry
- Nervous tension, trauma, poor posture
- Strenuous activity, Car accidents, Pregnancy
- Sudden falls, sports injuries, running, sleeping on your stomach or side, aerobics, leaning weight on only one leg for a long period of time…and more
In many cases chronic pain is completely eliminated within a few weeks of regular neuromuscular treatments.
Now, is Neuromuscular Therapy going to work for you? YES… but I am not asking you to believe me. I am only asking you to believe
THEM: the thousands of satisfied patients who are already experiencing the joy of being PAIN-FREE!
Here are some more of their stories…
| “One week before a golf tournament, I pulled a muscle in my back that prevented me from exercising, and especially swinging a golf club. Michael worked on my pain twice and the problem was gone and I went on to win the golf tournament!”-Spencer J. Smith Senior Loan Officer, Los Angeles, CA“Michael has a keen ability to locate and relieve pain from hidden muscle areas contributing to my widespread back spasms and radiating pains down my legs. After 1 session, I noticed an immediate improvement in my body posture. I could sit and walk with significantly less pain, with my movements feeling smooth and relaxed.”-Virginia Incremona, Computer Programmer, Los Angeles, CA |
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