Neuromuscular ReEducation
Neuromuscular re-education is a technique used by movement therapists to restore normal body movement patterns.
Your nerves and muscles work together to produce movement. Nerves send signals between your muscles and your brain about where, when and how fast to move. Over time, muscle movement patterns are learned and stored in your memory.
When nerves or muscles experience damage or injury resulting from trauma and various medical and neurological conditions, muscle movement patterns can be negatively affected. Neuromuscular re-education is one method used by movement therapists to facilitate the return of normal movement in patients with neuromuscular impairments.
Neuromuscular re-education consists of:
- Manual techniques (i.e., PNF-proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation)
- Activities for balance and core control
- Therapeutic exercises that are designed to re-develop normal controlled movement patterns.
To eliminate many of the symptoms that a client presents during their treatment time, it is critical to re-establish normal kinesthetic sense and proprioception of the Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar spine, and Appendicular skeleton. When these neurological characteristics are not functioning properly, a client cannot maintain proper posture and many of the muscles of the involved area do not function properly. Pain, inflammation, and swelling due to surgery or injury can lead to loss of neuromuscular control and abnormal movement.
Many of our clients have general tenderness and decreased motion of a joint(s). A joint needs to have full motion to be fully functional. If the joint does have full range of motion, weakness and functional limitations will develop over time. This time period is different for every client, normally several weeks to months when the symptoms are not treated properly. Any loss of motion and strength needs to be addressed to eliminate the client’s symptoms and correct the underlying problem. However, re-education of the nervous system must occur prior to developing enough strength and motion to regain full function. Without the neuromuscular re-education process, “normal” movement patterns are unlikely to be re-established.
Neuromuscular re-education is the final and most important pillar of our recovery process. Through the previous strategies, we eliminate the restrictions suppressing your movement quality, now we can enhance said quality. We perfect fundamental movements of daily living; squatting, lunging, hinging, pushing, pulling, carrying, and rotating. These are all essential to alleviate your pain and operate at your highest level. Walking, running, golfing, and playing with your kids and/or grandkids are right within reach.plays a major role in the rehabilitation of our clients.
At Movement Matters, our pain relief therapist looks at the client as a whole and addresses all aspects of the dysfunction to help the client achieve her or his maximal rehabilitation potential, and to be the best they can be in performing all of their functional activities. Request a 60-minute discovery visit today at Warwick, NY .
