Neuromuscular Massage - What Exactly Is It?

If you have been in a car accident at one time or have been living with pain for many years now, maybe you need to learn what\'s involved with this specific branch of massage technique.

Neromuscular massage or NMT as some refer to it, is specifically used to address the pain you are currently dealing with. You must first understand that your nervous system controls everything in your body, including muscle tension and the amount of pain you can deal with...

Whereas a standard \"relaxation\" massage will work on the general areas of your back...NMT is a deep tissue massage that addresses individual specific muscles, ligaments, connective tissue & tendons that are often overlooked in a typical relaxation type of massage.

Here is what you can expect.

First the client will sit in a a chair specifically made for receiving massages. Thumbs, fingertips and elbows are the tools of choice for the massage therapist to explore every fiber tissue looking for bands of muscle fibers that are tighter than the rest of them. These result in troubles such as hyper tonicity and ischemia. Hypertonicity is just a fancy word for too much tension in your bodies muscles. Isechemia is simply another word for a limitation of your bodies blood flowing to areas that need it.

These areas will be massaged until they \"release\" or relax. NMT will boost your bodies flow of blood, diminish their pain and as a result release anxiety on nerves caused by previous soft tissue and muscle injuries.

The funny thing is that clients will ask, \"why are you working over there? It Doesn\'t hurt there...it hurts over here.\" The explanation is Neuromuscular massage aids the freeing of trigger points and intense knots of tense muscle that in turn free up pain in other areas of the body that are related by the same muscle. This is acknowledged as \"Referred Pain\". Lets take an example Releasing an uptight trigger point in your back...could help ease pain in your shoulder or even reduce those never ending headaches.

What Does This Reveal About Your Massage Therapist?

Let this sink in for a second. This means that your NMT therapist must be educated in Several disciplines including:
\r The physiology of the bodies nervous system
\r Its relation on the muscular and skeletal systems.
\r Is educated in the field of kinesiology
\r Is educated in biomechanics
\r Is educated in how to work in a clinical or medical environment

How Can Neuromuscular Massage Benefit Me?

Neuromuscular Therapy will be used to work on each of the five elements that cause pain in everyone of us:
\r Ischemia: We talked a bit about this one previously. Isechemia is just a need of blood supply to soft tissues which causes hypersensitivity when touched.

Trigger Points: These are really stressed points in muscles, which refer pain to other parts of the body. Remember we brought up about how relaxing a trigger point in your left shoulder could release or put an end to those terrible pounding headaches. (Even though you might not have related the two together before)

Nerve Compression: This is only force on a nerve caused by one of the following:

Soft tissue
\r Cartilage
\r Bone

Postural Distortion: This is an unevenness of the muscular system as a result of the movement of the body off the longitudinal and horizontal planes. This is a different way of telling your body every now and then needs a muscle alignment just like your pickup tuck needs one after hitting too many potholes!

Biomechanical Dysfunction: This refers to the imbalance of the muscular skeletal system due to bad habits like these:
\r Incorrect lifting habits
\r Miserable golf swing
\r Lousy tennis stroke
\r Incorrect typing posture

If you think that you could benefit from Neuro-muscular Massage therapy, Why not call your local massage therapist and ask if they concentrate on this form of massage therapy. After two or three appointments I think you will be overjoyed with the results.

Learn more about Atlanta neuromuscular massage at this website.

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