NeuroKinetic Therapy® Corrective Movement System is a sophisticated bodywork modality that can be used as both an assessment and rehabilitative technique for low back pain, neck pain, carpal tunnel, and many other injuries.

David Weinstock, author of Neurokinetic Therapy, an Innovative Approach to Manual Muscle Testing, co-developed this technique in the mid-1980s, and has used it to treat a variety of disorders that are featured on his website. The NeuroKinetic Therapy™ Corrective Movement System establishes a way to determine mal-adaptive muscles firing patterns using a system of precise muscle tests which can change the programming of the Motor Control Center (MCC) in the cerebellum. 

Think of it like this.  Imagine you are driving the Jersey turnpike at 250 miles per hour, or about the speed of an neuron travelling from your brain to your muscle, which your brain has just told to fire.  Your brain told your neuron to travel to exit 38, so off you go as fast as you can, but once you get there you see these big highway signs saying the exit is closed, so you say, ok, I'll take exit 36 instead - close enough.  But, it's not, cause Exit 38 gets you on the bridge to Atlantic City, and exit 36 puts you at a Honda dealership.  Not quite the same.  You can kinda get to AC from there, but not nearly directly.  Anyway, your neuron made it there and thinks everything's okay, so now everytime your brain says to send that neuron down to exit 38, the neuron's seeing the "closed" sign, and gets off at exit 36 instead.  So, in your body, the example would be that your brain said to fire the muscle in your big toe, but you recently stubbed your toe, so since the big toe is "closed", or neurologically down-regulated, now the neurons go to "exit 36", or the deep arch muscle instead.  Close enough, right?  So, what happens is that over time, your body keeps sending these neurons out to fire the big toe muscle (commonly known as the Flexor Hallucis Longus muscle), but instead it's firing the arch, and you're getting these nasty foot cramps that won't go away, which is that muscle's way of saying enough of this.

And that's the annoying chronic pain that you often feel.  It's a muscle that's pissed off at you for asking it to do another muscles' job for so long.  And what's the only way to stop someone complaining in that instance?  Get the other guy back to do the job he's supposed to do.  

Sounds great, but how long does this take, and how long can it have been since I had an injury?  Does something I did 3, 5, 10 or more years have any bearing on my movement patterns now?  

• Yes, injuries you incurred years, if not decades ago can contribute to maladaptive muscle firing patterns
• You can feel significant relief anywhere from one session to a few weeks.
• You are given the power to heal, with simple home-based corrective exercises
• I can be multiple decades from when you first had an injury to what we are working on now, particularly if it was a head injury. 

This is what Neurokinetic Therapy does.  It finds out who's over working, who's slacking, and works to correct that imbalance by getting the slacker to fire back up, and giving the overacheiver a break.  

Pilates on Hudson is the only place in Westchester where you can get this amazing treatment!  All of our trainers are trained in it, and we'd be happy to schedule a consultation to discuss how NKT might help your issues.