About Neuromuscular Massage Therapy There is not a short easy way to explain the comprehensive nature of Neuromuscular Massage Therapy, and not leave out some details that may "speak" to certain people, that this technique would benefit their needs. We will do the best we can.

Neuromuscular Therapy is a structurally integrative approach to pain relief. The method is based on finding improper structural and biomechanical patterns in the patient's body. Once these patterns are analyzed a comprehensive program is designed to guide the client through the five stages of rehabilitation:

1. Eliminate muscle spasm 2. Restore flexibility 3. Restore proper biomechanics 4. Increase muscle strength 5. Increase muscular endurance

Our purpose is to not only to eliminate the pain, but educate the patient on ways to prevent recurrence of the injury.

Neuromuscular Therapy fills a void left by traditional health care by analyzing soft tissue causes of pain. According to recent research approximately 90% of pain symptoms are considered idiopathic, which means there is no known cause. We believe the reason there is no known cause is that a proper investigation into the patient's soft tissues is not being performed. NeuromuscularTherapy is a way to analyze and thoroughly explore the muscles, tendons, and ligaments in order to find these hidden sources of pain.

Restoring proper structure and biomechanics not only alleviate pain, but can positively affect a variety of physiological conditions. One of the neurological laws that is the basis for Neuromuscular Therapy is Wolff's law. Simply stated, “Form follows function and function follows form." Thus, a distortion in the form of the body is often correlated to improper function of the body. For example, a slouching posture can decrease digestive function or a trigger point in the ear can affect hearing or balance. When proper structure is restored to the body, the accompanying physiological problems are often alleviated.

At the Neuromuscular Junction Wellness Center, we believe that you should not wait for the problem to start causing you pain! You have "hidden time bombs" being developed in your body as we speak, due to stress and bad habits. These are trigger points, or noxious points in the body that may or may not yet send referred pain to other parts of the body due to restricted circulation to those soft connective tissues. These trigger points also cause muscle imbalances. think of all of your muscles (over 640) as "pneumatic levers" that are controlled by electrical wires that control their power. When you have any kind of injury, even micro-injuries, it sets off a big chain reaction, and the nervous system sends electrical impulses to each individual muscle fiber to make it contract in order to protect the muscle fibers from getting anymore damage such as tears. However, if after awhile your body doesn't shut off this signal, it will start developing negative forms of stress on the body and send pain and other symptomatic sensations, such as numbness or tingling sensations. This also causes the pairs of muscles involved to pull against the skeletal structures and each other, one getting stretched too much and one getting contracted too much. If these muscles with the imbalance are attached to your spine, it can pull those vertebrae out of alignment. and cause more damange such as bulging/herniated or ruptured discs and bone rubbing on bone that isn't normal. All of this results into the "PAIN-SPASM-PAIN CYCLE" causing more stress and fatigue on the body, not letting it relax and function optimally! There are also other chain reaction effects that happen as well. Nerves and blood vessels can get compressed and restricted between connective tissue or connective tissue and bone.

So we believe, why be REACTIVE to the problems that you think "suddenly" start becoming worse? Why not become PROactive and PREVENTIVE and start getting specific Massage and Bodywork now to correct the problems before they get worse?