Structural Rehabilitation
Many people suffer from neurological injuries and conditions that involve musculoskeletal problems.
Despite receiving all kinds of therapies from multiple providers, they are often unable to fully resolve their injuries and control their pain.
We usually find that their neuromuscular control mechanisms are not working properly, and are preventing them from improving. If the pathways that control stabilizing muscles are not functioning appropriately, recovery will always be limited.
If it is needed I map out the integration of your neuromuscular control systems, and determine what I need to do to reintegrate your brain and body again. I evaluate every aspect of your neurology involved controlling your musculoskeletal system, and all of the sensory mechanisms that govern these controls.
I design a treatment program to rebuild your stability from the most foundational levels, so you can move beyond your condition and get back to the life you deserve.
What Is Structural Rehabilitation?
Structural rehabilitation therapies can be critically necessary to recover from an injury that produces neurological dysfunction. If a person injures their neck or back in a fall, and the fall resulted in a concussion, their neck or back will likely require some form of rehabilitation to restore proper function of the muscles and joints.
I regularly see patients that have suffered simultaneous neurological and structural injuries, and have received treatment by other providers for their structural issues. The people I usually see have responded poorly to structural rehabilitation. This is not because they have received the wrong structural therapies or have been treated by the wrong providers. Rather, it usually means that they are performing what would be exactly the correct therapies and exercises for their structural injury, only the neuromuscular control mechanisms have become impaired and are preventing the person from improving. Functional recovery will always be limited in these circumstances.
As part of your treatment program, I take a comprehensive approach rehabilitating structural problems. I look at every aspect of your neurology involved in the motor control of your stabilizing muscles, and evaluate all of the sensory mechanisms that govern these controls. By integrating all of these into your rehabilitation program, we can help you overcome the problems that have been impeding your recovery, and get you back on the path towards living your best life.
How Does Structural Rehabilitation Help You?
Physical rehabilitation exercises and modalities are generally designed with the premise of an intact nervous system. In order for someone to rehabilitate a muscle or stabilize an injured joint, the neurological mechanisms that control their function must be intact. In many cases of simultaneous structural and neurological injury, damage to these control mechanisms makes recovery from structural injury difficult or impossible.
Structural neurorehabilitation exercises are designed to address both the injured tissue and the impaired neurological control mechanisms at the same time. By addressing every aspect of your injury, structural neurorehabilitation can usually help you recover faster and regain more complete function, so you can bet back to living the life you desire. Structural Neurorehabilitation often makes up a critical part of your NeuroRescue Program. We find it to be helpful in a wide range of neurological conditions
What To Expect
Successful rehabilitation starts with comprehensive diagnostics. In order for rehabilitation to be successful, I need to gain some hard data on how your eyes are tracking, how your inner ear is working, and how well you can balance in different sensory conditions. Once I have this mapped out, I can see how problems in these systems can be manifesting as problems controlling your stabilizing muscles. I can then incorporate specific visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive stimulation and exercises into a customized exercise protocol that can rebuild your stability from the most foundational levels.
As you begin to regain your spinal stability and get your pain under control, I can move towards more dynamic activities and challenges. These usually involve several different types of stimuli coupled with physical exercises at the same time, as I push you closer towards being stable and pain-free.
Pioneering Functional Neurology Care Across Europe for Over 35 Years.
Kim has been helping people recover from complicated neurological conditions, such as Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injuries, Dizziness and Vertigo, Dysautonomia, and Movement Disorders through innovative diagnostics and customized brain-based solutions for 35 years.
