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Trigger Point?
Tender spots in taut bands of muscles are referred to as "Trigger points". These tender spots may actively occur in the affected muscle, produce additional tender spots or refer pain to other muscles in the body. A Trigger point may feel like a hard "Lump", knot or band in the muscle. Or you may experience broad muscle soreness.
Clinical NeuroMuscular Massage Therapy/Treatment Massage
Clinical Neuromuscular Therapy is a type of Structural Body work and is more sophisticated than straight out remedial Massage, in that it seeks not only to eliminate pain and restriction through releasing locally involved dense and fibrotic tissues, but goes further in endeavouring to find out if there is a Structural/Postural Cause or relationship to the original symptom/pain/restriction.
The body is looked at as a "whole unit". It's a specific approach to restore the structural, functional and postural integrity of the body to address the problem of pain.
Neuromuscular Therapy will be used to address five elements that cause pain:
Ischemia: Lack of blood supply to soft tissues which cause hypersensitivity to touch
Trigger Points: Highly irritated points in muscles which refer pain to other parts of the body
Nerve Compression or Entrapment: Pressure on a nerve of soft tissue, cartilage or bone
Postural Distortion: Imbalance of the muscular system resulting from the movement of the body off the longitudinal and horizontal planes
Biomechanics Dysfunction: Imbalance of the musculoskeletal system resulting in faulty movement patterns (ie, Poor lifting habits, bad mechanics in a fold swing of tennis stroke, computer keyboarding)
Clinical Neuromuscular therapy (CNMT) applied to the body can help:
- Remove causes rather than deal with symptoms
- Remove the necessity for the bulk of specific manipulation
- Encourage the body's ability of self healing/normalisation
- Facilitate more rapid and permanent recovery
- Assist postural self alignment
- The reduction/removal of trigger points
- Bring awareness to the client and their body
