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What is Neuromuscular Therapy?

Neuromuscular Therapy is a type of massage therapy specifically designed to address acute (recent) and chronic pain (long term) in the muscles of the human body. The therapist utilizes a combination of anatomical knowledge and palpation skills to locate and work muscles containing tender points, trigger points or general ischemia (muscles with compromised metabolism due to various kinds of stress).

The Neuromuscular therapist works these dysfunctional muscles using direct, digital pressure, and longer thumb and finger-tip movements to elongate the effected muscle tissues. Neuromuscular therapy can also help to free areas of nerve entrapment (when tight muscles trap nerves traveling through them) using digital pressure and adhesions (when two bundles of fibers or two muscles stick together due to small micro-tears) with gentle cross fiber friction techniques. Once the muscle fibers are structurally normalized range of motion is restored and the body can begin to finish the healing process.

Often times there are other factors that determine how much and how fast a person will heal when receiving Neuromuscular Therapy. These factors include the overall level of physical fitness of the patient. The patients nutrition, and habitual movement patterns (biomechanics that might be perpetuating the muscle problems), and overall emotional well being.