{"id":149,"date":"2009-03-17T21:56:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T01:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbottcenterblog.wordpress.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2023-01-02T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T15:58:02","slug":"hand-pain-and-arm-pain-treatment-neuromuscular-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/2009\/03\/17\/hand-pain-and-arm-pain-treatment-neuromuscular-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Arm and hand pain: Treatment with Neuromuscular Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neuromuscular Therapy<\/strong> treatment for <strong>Repetitive Stress\/Strain Injuries (RSI) and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) <\/strong>in my Metro-West Boston clinic involves the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Deep sustained gentle pressure on painful forearm points.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Milking&#8221; and flushing soft tissues to remove waste products and bring healing cells, nutrients and oxygen.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Evaluation and treatment of specific <strong>entrapment <\/strong>points in the neck, chest and upper extremity to restore blood flow and nerve signals.<\/li>\n<li>Examining for <strong>Trigger Points<\/strong> in the many upper body muscles that refer pain to the forearm, and using techniques to deactivate hyperactive nodules and release taut bands.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Treatment of the upper thoracic and cervical spine to loosen the muscles that can cause <strong>compression of the vertebral joints<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Consistent attention to rebuilding healthy tissue is necessary using NMT, plus\u00a0<strong>Active Isolated Stretching<\/strong>, self-treatment, exercise, lifestyle and dietary changes, and the search for systemic, post-injury, environmental, stress, and physiological triggers. Commitment to recovery from chronic RSI is necessary because unless it has been treated at the onset of symptoms, it can be a lengthy process. It&#8217;s well worth the work if it gets your life back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Neuromuscular Therapy treatment for Repetitive Stress\/Strain Injuries (RSI) and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) in my Metro-West Boston clinic involves the following: Deep sustained gentle pressure on painful forearm points. &#8220;Milking&#8221; and flushing soft tissues to remove waste products and bring healing cells, nutrients and oxygen.\u00a0 Evaluation and treatment of specific entrapment points in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,19,32,38],"tags":[822,829,835,847,597],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arm-pain","category-chronic-pain","category-hand-pain","category-neuromuscular-therapy","category-repetitive-stressstrain-injury-rsi","tag-arm-pain","tag-chronic-pain","tag-hand-pain","tag-neuromuscular-therapy","tag-repetitive-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4531,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/4531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}