NEUROMUSCULAR THERAPY (NMT) is a comprehensive approach to assessing muscular imbalances and restoring proper functional relationships in the neuromuscular system. NMT is based on the principles of:
Postural Distortion: Imbalance in the muscular tonus system resulting in the movement of the body off the coronal (front to back) and mid-saggital (side to side) planes.
Biomechanical Disturbance: Imbalance in the musculoskeletal system resulting in faulty movement patterns.
Ischemia: Tissues which suffer from lack of circulation. Ischemic tissues are areas so contracted that they restrict the flow of nutrition and oxygen into the muscle, and the removal of metabolic waste products from the area. Chronic muscle tightness produces ischemia; ischemia produces pain.
Trigger Points: Discrete areas of soft-tissue structures with low neurological activity that, when stimulated or stressed, transform into areas of high neurological activity with referred sensations to other parts of the body (the referral “target” areas).
Nerve Compression or Entrapment : Pressure on a nerve by a bone, cartilaginous structure, or a soft-tissue structure, which can produce a range of symptoms from numbness, tingling, thermal sensations, to overtly painful sensations and decrease in muscle function. Nerve compression and entrapment syndromes occur at the level of the spinal cord itself, but also “locally” through the peripheral nervous system, manifesting, for example, as a cold, numbed or “dead” feeling in the forearms, wrists or hands.