In clinical practice, there can be a danger of focusing into where the patient is saying that they have pain and forgetting that there is a whole body attached to that painful part. Often it is the aspects distant to where the pain lies, that is the ultimate seat of the problem. This often shows its self when patients present with recurrent issues, often describing an “old injury” that keeps coming back or describing an ongoing weakness in an area that has been there for years. We have a choice in clinic, to either treat the area that hurts and hope that the pain stays away for long enough to allow the patient to get on with their often modified approach to life, or we can seek out the root cause of the issues and provide a more lasting solution which seeks to normalise the function of that painful area in relation to the function of the whole body, and in doing so, allow them to function without modifying there activities. The problem we have, is how do we define that normal function in the context of the highly complex interrelations of the neuro-muscular system that make up the body? Then, how can we restore a dysfunctional body back to that normal?
Chris has a built a reputation in Sleaford over the last 12 years for being able to control & resolve both acute & chronic pain complaints where other treatment approaches have failed. Combining his osteopathic knowledge with the ground breaking approach from the Prague School of Rehabilitation, gives Chris the ability to have a deeper understanding of how pain can occur in the body and therefore how to resolve it.
The Prague School, under the guidance of the world renowned physiotherapist Prof. Pavel Kolar, teaches a new approach to understanding the body, based on the way we move and how our neurology controls that movement. This allows an understanding of what “normal” movement and posture is, how abnormal movement leads to pain, and therefore how to get a body back to working as it should in a pain free efficient way. Using a combination of techniques and exercise regimes from the Prague School, with the osteopathic method of releasing tensions from the musculoskeletal system, results in a total body integrated approach to the neuromuscular system that produces remarkable results which speak for themselves.
