Principle of Myotherapy you must know!

If we observe well, we can see that joint pain, whether it is located in the spine, arms, or legs, as well as mobility limitations, is almost always due to contractures of muscles crossing the joint concerned.

Because in the case of the pathology of the musculoskeletal system we always find contractures on clinical examination, and by treating only these contractures, the pain disappears and mobility is recovered in the vast majority of cases, and this in general in a short time. Let's find out the details about it from the experts at  MyotherapyCoburg.

What is Myotherapy?

It is a gentle, non-manipulative, and painless osteopathic technique that aims to treat muscle contractures, which are at the origin of osteoarticular disorders with various and multiple consequences.

This original therapy has a mode of action quite different from other forms of manual therapy like Remedial Massage said by the experts at Remedial Massage Coburg. It incorporates reasoning to find the true cause of pain by a precise analysis of muscle chains. In general, myotherapy works quickly and durably.

Main indications of Myotherapy:

• Joint pain, acute or chronic, recent or old including osteoarthritis;
• Neuralgia, sciatica
• Migraines

Principle of Myotherapy

To understand the usefulness of myotherapy, it is necessary to understand the mechanism of trauma and triggering factors. Here the details are explained by the experts at  MyotherapyCoburg.

Muscles form a continuous chain in the body. When one muscle undergoes trauma, other muscles contract to compensate, causing the pain to migrate to another place in the body. 

Following trauma to the head or ankles, some intra-muscular fibers contract permanently due to a reflex mechanism. These contractures can then cause immediate pain but also, most often, remain below the pain threshold for many years and manifest themselves suddenly following the occurrence of a triggering factor. For example, during stress, shock, repetitive movement, fatigue, poor sleeping position, "false movement", psychological shock... The contracture then solicited, worsens, exceeds the tolerance threshold causing symptoms. Depending on the muscles, the level of compensation, and the affected area, the aggravation of this contracture can cause, for example:

• Abnormal compression of the bones of the skull and induce migraines, tinnitus, cluster headaches...
• Blockage of the first cervical vertebrae and ribs and induce exercise asthma
• Excessive compression of the lumbar vertebrae and cause herniated discs,
• A deviation of the spine that gradually turns into scoliosis
• A hyper pressure of the cartilage that will trigger arthritis, osteoarthritis, meniscal pain ...
• Venous compression causing migraines

According to the experts at  MyotherapyCoburg, the pain usually stops when the muscle concerned relax thanks for example to a night of rest, taking medication, or a session of Physiotherapy or osteopathy ...

But, even if the pain disappears, muscle contracture is still present, and the process will recur as soon as the secondary factors present themselves again. This is why it is not uncommon to have to return regularly to your physiotherapist or osteo for the same problem. Because, in fact, the problem is still there. Only the symptoms were masked.

It is important to distinguish the initial (often old) trauma from the triggers.

Conventional therapies most of the time act locally to treat the symptom that appeared as a result of the trigger and that seems, at first sight, to be involved.

The work of the myotherapist consists in acting on the primary trauma and therefore on the old muscle spasm in order to ensure a lasting disappearance of the problem. It can, in a complementary way, act locally on the second factor to accelerate, for example, the disappearance of disabling pain.

Hope this article will give you a clear knowledge about the treatment. If you want to know about Remedial Massage then connect with the experts at Remedial Massage Coburg.