If you get hurt, you try to do everything to heal, but for some reason you may not be getting better. Sometimes your injuries may even change the way you move, and other parts of your body start to compensate and cause the pain to spread. The problem isn't just in your joints and muscles - every part of your body is trying to send messages to your brain. After the injuries heal, the outdated messages from your injury may linger, and the pain doesn't go away.
Neurological based training focuses on repairing the network of pathways between your brain and your body, and keeping the pain away. It does this by understanding and applying the basic concepts of how the central nervous system works.
The brain basically has three tasks:
- Receive input from our five senses
- Interpret and decide what to do
- Send output to perform an action
It is a loop system; the quality of the output is dependent upon the quality of input and the ability to interpret and decide what to do, and then send quality signals out to the body to respond and act accordingly. If you have lingering pain that you are struggling with, it is most likely there is a problem in one of the above three tasks your brain is performing. So - if we train and improve how you receive, process and send this information, we are using the model to improve performance, rehabilitate tissue function and reduce pain.
Motor control exercises shift the healing focus from a biomechanical to a neuro-biomechanical viewpoint. By performing certain motions and exercises, we can activate specific areas in our brain that improves the functions of receiving input messages, interpretation of messages, and sending output messages. Sometimes the neuro-based exercises seem strange or simple, but they work to create life-long wellness.
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