About Applied Neurology

Applied Neurology is actually what it sounds like — the principles of the central and peripheral nervous system applied to manual practice. There are several articles on this site which describe the technique.

Stretch and Glide

Briefly, this is a technique for improving the abilities of nerve to stretch with the movement of the body and to glide over the tissues through which it passes. This is accomplished by managing the effects of inflammation within nerve bundles and the tethering that occurs between nerves and surounding tissue. The tethering is typically the result of scar tissue deposition at sites of inflammation.

Gentle pressure on the nerve bundle helps reduce the inflammatory pressure within it enabling the nerve to stretch appropriately. Manually disengaging the tethered spots enables the tissue to glide.

Results

This process has far-ranging effects, not the least of which is pain reduction. The pressure in nerve bundles caused by inflammation causes nerves to fire spontaneously resulting in pain and muscle spasm.

Perphaps more importantly, the tethering of nerves has profound effects on posture and movement by limiting the motion at joints. By releasing the nerves, joints move more freely and postural compensations are reduced.