Chronic Pain Treatment Redcliffe
At Positive Pain Solutions, we treat your pain very seriously. We want you to be able to take control of your life enabling you to move and function better.
The human body is extremely complex. In simplified terms; Muscles move bones/joints and joint movement allows us to function. For example to walk, throw a ball, pick something up or to hang out washing we need to have adequate pelvic and spine movement and stability. Restrictions in these joints can create pain in daily activities.
Throughout my journey to develop Finch Therapy, it became very clear that the mobility (or lack thereof) in the pelvis and spine were a major factor for the presence of chronic pain.
Reviewing the body and its functional movement patterns allowed me to learn that even though identifying the stiff joints were critical, it was more important for long term treatment results to identify why they were stiff. Identifying the primary muscle that creates joint stiffness is a tricky thing.
What became clear is all too often the muscle that was creating the joint stiffness in many cases are positioned a long way away from the stiff joint. This occurred because of a connective tissue called fascia. If you have ever looked at a raw lamb shank, there is a pearly white covering surrounding the flesh. This covering is called fascia. This connective tissue also encompasses your muscles. Fascia creates a sling effect, attaching many muscles together like a sling. When one of the muscles in this sling doesn’t function optimally, it creates tension on the other muscles ultimately causing joint stiffness.
Fascia has many roles; one in particular, allows muscles to be attached to other muscles creating a ‘chain reaction’ or pulley system of muscles. This pulley system of muscles attaches to bones including the spine and pelvis.
When one of the muscles in the ‘pulley’ stops functioning optimally, it affects all the muscles in the pulley system. This applies tension to many muscles, joints and nerves causing muscle tightness, joint stiffness and pain.
As part of your chronic pain treatment, we utilize our unique body mapping system. This allows us to identify where the primary source of your pain is coming from. Once we have identified the muscular driving force behind your joint stiffness, work can begin.
The next step is to alter the tension/function of this muscle. This is done by ‘resetting’ the muscle (a bit like rebooting a computer). The resetting occurs through low load muscle contraction stimulating a neurological response from the brain. Once this change occurs (usually instantly) the tension of the muscle has altered and so has the joint stiffness, returning the mobility of the stiff joint to normal.
To help you take control of your life, the same muscle activation technique is given to you to do at home. This usually takes only a couple of minutes. To do the muscle activation techniques at home reduces the amount of treatments required at the clinic saving you time and money.
Chronic Pain can be a bit like a leaky roof…. Water trickles out from one point but the source may originate elsewhere. Where your pain presents may not be where the source of the problem is.
Joints in your body have a predetermined resting (neutral) position with the ability to move in certain ranges. Deviation from this neutral position creates excessive strain on muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves and joints; this is recognised as faulty postural alignment.
This faulty postural alignment can occur as a result of trauma, (motor vehicle accident, sprains, fractures and sporting injuries etc), damage from wear and tear of daily activities, overuse and repetitive movement patterns.
Faulty postural alignment can affect the muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments and nerves
Faulty postural alignment can affect the muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments and nerves locally to where the pain is situated; however, it can also affect other areas of the body a long way away via the fascial connective tissue.
Below is a diagram demonstrating how one muscle can create faulty postural alignment in the shoulder and upper back but could also affect many other regions of the body (including the back).
When the red coloured muscle (rhomboid) is not functioning optimally, it can affect any or all of the muscles in the fascial sling (other coloured areas) plus create joint stiffness in the neck, shoulder, hip, back, knee and foot.
