Joelle G., a woman in her 40s, was referred by her doctor to my Neuromuscular Therapy Center Southwest of Boston for help with her knee pain. She was limping badly and couldn’t completely straighten one leg. It hurt too much to climb stairs, so working in a building with an elevator was a good thing! […]
As a Neuromuscular Therapist, how do I think about back injuries caused by lifting and shoveling? (Find information below on lumbar muscles, side-body muscles, supporting low back structures, gluteal muscle involvement and joint compression. More information is in the blog on “Understanding low back pain.”) It’s a common event to injure the low back muscles […]
As a Neuromuscular Therapist, how do I think about the muscle pain and numbness caused by a herniated disc? Whenever there is a problem in the low back such as a herniated disc, the nerve signals generated by the irritation there can cause symptoms down into the muscles along the nerve pathway that can persist long […]
In the case of Chad S., treatment for acute shoulder pain at my metro-west Boston clinic included Neuromuscular Therapy for the shoulder and arm muscles plus Active Isolated Stretching. He was instructed to ice and was given stretches to do at home and at work. Keeping impingement of the supraspinatus tendon and Trigger Point referred pain in mind, […]
In the case of Chad S., his shoulder pain pattern sounded to me like an impingement of the supraspinatus tendon caused by tight rotator cuff muscles combined with Trigger Points from those muscles. Impingement often has a throbbing or stabbing sensation with movement. Trigger Points are strong from all of the rotator cuff muscles, radiating into many […]
Shoulder pain often comes on suddenly with sharp shooting pain into the arm that severely limits upward motion. Chad had found our Neuromuscular Therapy Center on line when he was in the Boston area on business. He had called with neck and upper back pain that had seized up on one side, preventing head rotation. An […]
The symptoms of butt and leg pain, numbness and burning in the foot and “foot drop” that were caused by muscles in Pablo’s case were treated with Neuromuscular Therapy techniques in my clinic West of Boston. Trigger Points, nerve entrapment (piriformis syndrome), and local muscle inflammation were all addressed. Treatment included NMT locally in his […]
Pablo had 36 treatments in my Neuromuscular Therapy clinic and only needs maintenance now. He started at twice a week for a month then once a week for a month, and kept stretching out the time between treatments depending on the the window of time in which his pain returned. My criteria for a “breakthrough” […]
Pain deep in the buttock and down the leg is a disturbing symptom of a herniated disc.A metro-West Boston Physiatrist sent a 60 year old patient for treatment in my Neuromuscular Therapy Center. His pain was one-sided and deep in the buttock. He would feel referred sensations down his leg when he was active and would […]
Herniated discs in the low back (especially L4,L5 and S1)) don’t always cause pain, but when they do, irritation of the nerve root affects all of the muscles along the sciatic pathway. With medical sources ruled out in the spine and disc , the pain is most likely caused by muscles. When butt and leg pain are […]