Understanding Pain & Injury
Through Neuroscience

1. The Brain's Protective Role:

Did you know that the most important aspect of most pain and injury is our subconscious brain protecting our bodies? This understanding can be used to reduce and eliminate pain.

Traditional views on pain focus on diagnosis, pain location and healing, but neuroscience reveals that pain and injury are mainly about protection by the nervous system.

When we address the protection we can get results that aren’t possible with traditional approaches.

2. Pain and Protection:

Pain can occur, and persist when the nervous system provides major protection to some parts of our body. Our brains protect throughout our bodies, not just the injured or painful parts.

Addressing the reason for protection eliminates pain and restores full strength and movement–immediately and long-lasting.

3. The Nervous System's Accuracy:

The nervous system is always accurate and creates pain, stiffness, and weakness in response to a problem in our body.

Discovering and addressing the main problem can resolve these issues.

4. Different Forms of Protection:

The nervous system can protect the body in various ways, such as muscle spasms as a type of ‘splinting’, or inhibition to prevent muscles from doing specific movements.

Understanding these forms of protection helps us address the Main Problem.

5. The Connected Nervous System:

All body parts are connected and controlled by one single organ – the nervous system.

This interconnectedness is essential for understanding pain and injury.

6. Measuring Protection through Muscle Firing:

Muscles are controlled by the brain, spinal cord, and nerves, which transmit the electrical signals determining how a muscle fires.

Testing muscle firing reveals the protection strategies of the nervous system in the body.

7. Reducing Forces and Improving Protection Responses:

At Youngify, gentle and specific manual therapy techniques are used to calm the nervous system's protective feedback loops, leading to instant and long-lasting improvements.

We use instant feedback from the protection responses to prove what works best and to fine-tune for maximum effect.

8. Long-Lasting Improvement:

Clients learn new, ideal muscle firing and movement control to prevent excessive forces from re-accumulating strain, resulting in lasting relief from pain and stiffness.

9. Limitations of Traditional Approaches:

Traditional approaches to pain and injury often overlook the protective role of the nervous system, leading to less effective treatments.

Neuroscience offers a more comprehensive understanding.

10. Neuroscience - A New Norm:

As with any significant forward progress, once the new understanding of pain and injury through neuroscience becomes common, it will no longer be unrealistic or unbelievable – it will become the new norm.

“ALL GOOD THERAPIES HAVE A STRONG MOVEMENT ASPECT, IT IS DIFFICULT TO CHANGE OLD PATTERNS OF MOVEMENT UNLESS WE ADDRESS SUBCONSCIOUS PROTECTION BY THE NERVOUS SYSTEM” - MICHAEL RIDGWAY

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stiffness or weakness problems?

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