Neuro Muscle Works

Anatomy gives us the connections 🔗
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Clinical outcomes generate the questions 🔐
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Research determines the answers 🔬🧪
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The more we understand how the nervous system and musculoskeletal system interact, the better we can serve the people who trust us with their care 🫆
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Did you know your nerves have nerves? ⚡️
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They’re called nervi nervorum (tiny nerves that help support and monitor larger nerves)
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Nerves also have their own blood supply 🩸
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This is important because slow blood flow means slow healing, and no blood flow means no healing ❤️‍🩹
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When people hear the word neuropathy, they often think of diabetes 💉
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While diabetes and chemotherapy can absolutely contribute to neuropathy, not all neuropathy is systemic 👨‍⚖️
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Some neuropathies are mechanical 👷🏽
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A great example is , where the tibial nerve becomes irritated or compressed as it passes through the inside of the ankle 🗜️
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In these cases, the issue may be influenced by posture, gait mechanics, joint position, muscle tension, or structural stress 😭
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At Neuro Muscle Works, we use the Hypertonic Anatomy Model (HAM) to identify predictable patterns of muscle guarding and movement dysfunction 🌐
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While there is no universal study supporting the exact patterns we observe, years of hands-on assessment have revealed consistent relationships involving the tibial and fibular nerve systems ⚖️
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Our goal is simple:

Find the source
Assess the pattern
Restore movement
Reduce unnecessary stress on the nervous system
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Whether neuropathy is systemic or mechanical, understanding the difference is often the first step toward finding the right solution.
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We often think about pain only in terms of joints or muscles, but there are also key transition zones in the body that sometimes grab patients and clinician’s attention 🚨
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We think of these as functional diaphragms 🧱
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These are areas like the thoracic outlet, the respiratory diaphragm, the pelvic diaphragm, the femoral triangle, and the popliteal fossa 📝
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They are regions where movement, pressure, blood flow, lymph flow, nerve flow, and tissue tension all have to coexist well ⛓️
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The problem is that posture influences all of them 🧘‍♀️
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Long hours at a desk, driving, guarding after stress, training hard without enough recovery, and even the way we sleep can all change the pressure around these spaces ⛓️‍💥
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Over time, tissues can become more hypertonic, less adaptive, and less fluid ⛲️
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When that happens, flow slows down 🚰
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Blood does not move as efficiently 💉
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Lymph does not drain as well ♻️
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The body starts to feel heavier, stiffer, more irritated, and sometimes more tender than it should 💊
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That stagnation over time becomes a problem that can grow 📈
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Stagnation can lead to more discomfort, more sensitivity, more protective tone, and more compensation 🥴
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In other words, the body begins to protect itself more, but that protection can eventually become part of the problem 🌐
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This is why we pay attention to these zones 🧩
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Not only to chase pain, but to improve the space where things need to move 💆🏻
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Sometimes that means hands on work 🙌
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Sometimes it means better breathing 😮‍💨
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Sometimes it means changing how you sleep, how you sit, how often you move, or how much tension you carry without realizing it 🎒
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The goal is simple 🥅
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Improve the body’s ability to flow, adapt, and recover 🔄
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Less stagnation
Better drainage
Better movement
Better output
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Protection precedes pain 🗣️
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So if we can understand what the body is protecting, we can often understand why it hurts 🙉
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Facet joints are the small joints between each vertebra that help guide movement through the spine 🩻
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They are not all oriented the same 🔄
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The cervical and thoracic regions allow more rotation, while the lumbar spine is built much more for flexion and extension and much less for twisting 🌪️
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When rotation keeps getting forced into an area that is not designed for it, irritation can build 🎚️🔈🔉🔊
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Add in one-sided hypertonicity and the problem gets even louder 📢
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When one side is holding more neural-tone than the other, the spine can start to rotate, compress, and load unevenly 🎭
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Over time, that can create irritation around the facet joints and the tissues that support them 😡
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Within the , we can look at the way hypertonic muscles can distort movement before pain shows up clearly on imaging 🔮
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A muscle can look strong on the surface but still be holding excessive tone and changing how the spine moves 🫥
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That altered tension can keep feeding asymmetry, especially with rotation-based sports and repetitive movement ⛳️
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Pain is not always just about damage, as we’ve seen with spine surgeries list 📋
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Sometimes it is about how the body is being pulled, compressed, and guided through motion 🧑‍🦯
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If one side is more hypertonic than the other, the facet joints may be dealing with the consequence 💫
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