The Treatment and Nerve Action
It is a natural and specialised technique targeting available joint recovery and re-alignment objectives. Treatment is suitable for joint stress injuries, sporting and motor vehicle impact injuries, and general back and leg pain, etc.
A patient's nerve system reflex's can cause a natural and efficient structural re-alignment process to occur. The body freely accepting stimulation that reduces stress around and within a joint injury. Injured and stressed tissue has its efficiency for recovery greatly hindered when it remains exposed to internal trauma. Without further stressing or damaging the body, specialised nerve stimulation can enhance the recovery procedure through a reduction of structural stress.
As a means of commencing instigated structural re-alignment, a compressive stimulation is applied to differing muscle insertions, nerve reactive tissues, joint structures and upon the patient's load bearing bones. The resulting nerve sensory activity can influence targeted muscles that, due to their points of attachment and influence to bone structure, thereafter sequentially cause an alteration in bone positions following muscle and ligament tension variations. (a 'neurotonic reaction')
Treatment often leads to a reduction of stress in damaged joint and spinal tissues with a subsequent reduction in pain. This tissue stress reduction greatly promotes the recovery and healing of the injured tissues. The treatment therefore seeks to correct underlying stressful conditions and not to just temporarily ease the symptoms.
An Injury and Some Nerve Action in Joint Injury
An example is evident when people automatically start to limp to one side after stressing or twisting a knee. In such a case, nerve signals will have stimulated skeletal muscles to vary and adapt the body's weight bearing stance and gait so as to reduce the load on the damaged joint tissue. A limping action requiring other joint related muscles, and those all along the spine that would have otherwise been at rest, to commence working for the benefit of injury recovery. Fatigue can rapidly set in with all this adaptive and compensatory muscle workload if the needs to provide for injury recovery are being ignored.
Prolonged additional muscular loads upon the bone structure, for this is where muscles attach, can commence to stress other joints within the body and underlie inflammation or tendonitis. If this situation continues due to the original injury not being rested, eg. the person continues employment or sporting activities without a recovery interval, then the body will seek to reduce the extra loading it is being exposed to by influencing the structural positions or by direct reduction of muscular loading. A reduction of nerve induced muscular activity for limb or grip strength not being uncommon.
A person ignoring a knee injury and persisting to maintain full pre-injury activity may well cause the body to semi-permanently adapt to cater for the ongoing joint stress. Upon examination, it is commonly the pelvic or head and shoulder structure that can be seen to have altered its position. X-rays of elderly patients complaining of constant nerve and joint pain regularly show signs of long-duration bone stress and spurring that has resulted from structural and postural variations.
Shoulder adaptation often presents with symptoms of neck and shoulder tension, headaches, a twisted or forward stooping posture. Pelvic adaptation regularly pre-disposes the lower lumbar disks to abnormal stresses when lifting loads or forward bending at the waist. A sideways lean, muscular tension and compensatory postural spinal curve (scoliosis) in the lumbar region being indicators of this.
The person's body might seek to ease its lower back muscle straining by enhancing the lumbar curve, whilst the head moves forward to compensate for the required change in balance and posture. Symptoms of an ongoing adaptation can present several months later by the person considering that they have no problem with their lower back but great trouble with a new shoulder problem or headaches.
A seemingly new and separate injury, occurring after an earlier unresolved injury adaptation, can result in a repetitive injury condition if the cause of the vulnerability is neglected. Treating only the most recent injury or "where it hurts today" might result in the true cause of the problem not being treated. The person might then consider or choose to accept that they have a continual or repetitive condition if they are, unknown to them, only receiving symptom relieving treatments.
And all this time, all the nerves were trying to do was to give the body the maximum opportunity to heal from the injury.