Neuromuscular Re-education
Combating Injury with Information
Chronic pain after an injury can result in the body holding/posturing itself against the area of trauma, and this habit can be harmful to the injured area and to secondary areas that are compensating.
Acute injury and long-term pain patients often lose flexibility, balance, and strength in these compensating areas; this loss of ability and improper posturing may require neuromuscular re-education.
The Basics of Body-Awareness
Neuromuscular re-education is beneficial to everyone, from those recovering from spontaneous injury to those aiming to improve their athletic performance.
A wide variety of goals surrounding neuromuscular re-education are possible, as our programs focus on improving balance, coordination, posture and proprioception.
Proprioception is how patients perceive themselves and the relative positions of body parts – a crucial element in recovery, allowing patients to move freely without injuring themselves or others.
Retraining Your Brain to Reduce Pain
Neuromuscular re-education is a technique utilized by Josh Duplessis, DC and his team, who specialize in understanding how muscles and nerves work together to produce movement.
Our goal is to help you learn to use movement to re-train the neuromuscular system to act in a desirable way.
By correcting biomechanical issues our patients are experiencing, and ensuring our patients are able to correct problematic posturing, we work together to prevent future injury.
Acute pain, if left untreated, may result in chronic pain issues.
One initial site of injury may result in several instances of secondary injury, occurring at the original site of injury, or elsewhere as a result of the injury/compensating for the pain.
Neuromuscular re-education helps halt and prevent chronic issues before they arise. Neuromuscular re-education helps patients build strength, balance and stability while focusing on increasing flexibility, physical fitness and overall ability.
By retraining the muscles to react to neurological impulses with proper form, patients can correct poor movement patterns and prevent injury.
By encouraging proper articulation, Josh Duplessis, DC and his team will help you retrain your muscles to react properly and in correct function, allowing you to move forward in their recovery without future incidents of pain.
Conscious Training, Reflexive Results
Our team creates specialized programs for our patients to promote functional, pain-free, muscle movements.
By repeating specific movements while emphasizing correct posture, we are able to stimulate the nerve signals ensuring they are retrained for appropriate, correct muscle motion.
Neuromuscular re-education will be paired with other treatments and therapies to facilitate the restoration of normal movements.
The neuromuscular re-education program focuses on restructuring the way the brain and spinal cord react in voluntary and reflexive movement.
By retraining the neuromuscular system, patients will improve their balance, coordination, posture, and proprioception – increasing their ability to navigate through the world with confidence and ease.
A Healthy Part of a Holistic Program
Combining neuromuscular re-education with other treatments and therapies is key to decreasing pain and preventing future injury.
When our team considers your case for your personalized program, they will analyze your situation and prescribe specific treatments and therapies to help heal your injury or source of pain.
When muscle movement is affected, nerves and muscles may suffer in turn; trauma, degenerative conditions, surgery recovery, and neurological conditions may all cause a decrease in muscle mobility.
Neuromuscular re-education will help patients combat further damage from improper motion (or lack of motion altogether), while correcting and improving coordination, flexibility, stability and proprioception.
Schedule your evaluation, and meet the team that will work with you to create your own personalized care program to lower pain and prevent injury.
A Coordinated Effort
We can help with back pain, sciatica and leg pain, neck and arm pain, shoulder pain and wrist pain.
Josh Duplessis, DC is the top chiropractor in Downers Grove, Illinois, and his team specializes in neuromuscular re-education, chiropractic manipulation, physical therapy, heat and massage therapy, manual therapy and nutrition consultation.
All these treatments and specialists will working together to ensure you have the best available program, to tackle your highest priority health and wellness goals.
The benefits of this holistic body treatment are innumerable – the treatment is tailor-made, specifically for our patients and their injuries/pain.
By learning what our team has to teach them patients will be armed with an arsenal of knowledge about their condition, how their neurological and muscular systems interact, and why it’s important to ensure proper articulation of the musculoskeletal system.
Arm Yourself with Knowledge
Neuromuscular re-education training allows for the increased ability to respond with balance, flexibility and coordination.
By retraining the spinal cord and brain, we aim to improve both voluntary movements and reflexive actions.
The individualized exercises and techniques help patients develop flexible responses to their environment without injury or pain, while improving their physical abilities.
Our goal with neuromuscular re-education is to pass on the knowledge of proper movement and guide patients through those movements until they’ve become second nature.
This goal ensures patients are able to respond to planned and spontaneous movement with balance, coordination, proper posture and proprioception.
Ultimately, it’s all about offering you the best possible physical hacks for prevention of injury and pain.