Does spinal manipulative therapy modulate the brain circuitry?

Manual therapy is commonly used to relieve joint stiffness, muscle tension and spasm which can restrict mobility and cause pain. Spinal manipulative therapy is a specific form of manual therapy that is used to deliver high-velocity, low-amplitude (HVLA) force on a spinal vertebral segment. Research evidence suggests that spinal manipulative therapy is effective in relieving spinal pain (1), and that the effects of a single … Continue reading Does spinal manipulative therapy modulate the brain circuitry?

What is neurodynamics? The very minimum you should understand.

Since the 1970s, when these procedures were first introduced, the treatment of neural tissue has remained a common component of diagnostics and treatment in manual physiotherapy (Elvey 1979; Butler 1991, 2000; Shacklock 1995, 2005; Hall & Elvey 1999). Theoretically, neurodynamics is just another name for neural mobilisation or neural mobilisation combined with certain additional neurosciences, according to some therapists. Moving neural tissues is just one … Continue reading What is neurodynamics? The very minimum you should understand.