This
is a simple technique designed to affect the nervous system at
specific nerve root levels: a soft tissue treatment with or without
manipulation. This system categorizes muscles in a specific way
to open up the nerve communication lines.
The
Nervous system is not exclusive to any one healthcare profession.
A medical doctor will influence a nerve or the nervous system
with a shot or medication. A chiropractor will influence a nerve
root or the nervous system with gentle movements. Dr. DeSalvo
uses the Myokinesthetic System to influence specific peripheral
nerves and the nervous system by manipulating the muscles. Dr.
DeSalvo has expanded his chiropractic education to integrate this
technique with simple to most difficult cases with great success.
The
treatment is gentle to the patient and designed to affect the
nervous system at the nerve root level. It is a treatment designed
to quickly and efficiently eliminate a patient's chronic and acute
symptoms. The results have been enormously successful.
Did
you know that if you do not clear the abnormal muscle memory you
are not completely treating the patient? For example, did you
know that if you do not re-educate the buttock muscles along with
32 other muscles, you are not giving that person a full treatment
to help with foot pain?
How
do we know to treat these particular muscles? Because these particular
muscles are innervated by the same nerve root. A nerve root is
the junction between the central nervous system CNS (brain and
spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system PNS (outside the
spine). Each nerve root gives off named nerves. These named nerves
innervate (talk to) the muscles and tell them to contract or relax.
However, when the communication gets jumbled at the nerve root,
then muscles will become flaccid or go into spasm.
By
grouping the muscles according to their nerve root innervation,
we can open up the communication between the CNS and PNS. Once
this is done, the body begins to right its problems and heal itself.
The MyoKinesthetic System stimulates every muscle along the same
nerve root so you begin to treat specific problems effortlessly.
However, if you also treat muscles innervated by other nerve roots
you now stimulate too much of the nervous system to elicit an
exact response. You end up losing the POWER to make the necessary
nervous system changes to help that person.
We
know that muscles are attached to bones and when a muscle contracts,
a bone moves. If someone has a muscle in spasm, a bone has moved
out of its normal position. When a bone moves out of its normal
position this is called a "Vertebral Subluxation Complex."
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