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Dr. Vishwas VirmaniPhysiotherapist • 27 Years Exp.MPT, BPT
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With self treatment, it goes without saying that there is no input from anyone else’s hands. Although I strongly suggest that in the beginning you see a physiotherapist, manual therapist, chiropractor or osteopath who will isolate your problem and initiate the un-jamming process,the rest of it is up to you. There are many operators who are expert at undoing complex jamming of vertebral segments, but they alone cannot deliver you from trouble. You need to help yourself-and be confident about doing so. Even the best can only address the ‘hands on’ aspect of your care. 

The background decompression of your spine and the restoration of your trunk control can only be done by you.Spinal therapies which do not recruit the sufferer share short-lived success. Yet most people would love to help fix their problem, if only they knew how. A quick tweak here and another tweak there, and a repeat appointment in a couple of weeks, rarely achieves anything if there is no groundwork from you in the meantime. The regenerative period may be a fraction of the degenerative one, yet it still takes time. It is a journey which must methodically unfold as it stops the destruction and turns it around.

 A condition which has taken years to evolve cannot be cured in a moment,especially when the factors which brought it about (gravity and our upright stance) never go away.You have to decompress your spine. No-one else can do this for you. You also may have to loosen contracture of the spine’s soft tissues.No-one can do this for you either. So expect for the subtle art of manually loosening a spinal segment, which is hard for you to execute with any degree of accuracy, you do the vast bulk of rehabilitation yourself. 

And remember, you have the invaluable advantages of intuition and instinct guiding you from the inside.The fundamentals of self treatment are to minimize the compression and restore elasticity to an immobile link. This is achieved by stretching your spine, maintaining the vertebral separation, and then going after even more. Minimizing vertical compression allows the disc to suck in water which makes it more resilient. Thus it absorbs shock better, so it suffers fewer traumas. 

A properly hydrated disc also spares the facet surfaces excessive contact. It acts like a pivot on which the segment tips, while the intrinsic muscles at the back control the forward nodding of the vertebrae like horse’s reins-all of them working at their most efficient angle of pull. 

As the disc flattens, there is less of this see-sawing action, and everything works less well. Strain and eventually pain sets in. restoration of disc height is thus the first objective of treatment. The key to the cure is as simple as knowing the cause.

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