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Effective Treatment for Muscle Injuries and Pain
| Posted on January 9, 2013 at 4:27 PM |
Advanced Muscle Integration Technique — A Remarkably Effective Treatment for Muscle Injuries and Pain Blog at a Glance ****A novel therapy used by many professional and elite athletes,
but useful for many common injuries, focuses on interrelationships
between muscle function, range of motion and restriction that contribute
to pain ****This technique, which incorporates multiple
muscular skeletal techniques, acupuncture points, trigger points, and
other alternative modalities, can oftentimes resolve injury-related pain
in minutes, accelerate rehabilitation and can dramatically help improve
athletic performance. **** Using this technique on the foot
and ankle, recovery time for grade 1 and 2 type ankle sprains can
potentially be reduced to minutes, compared to the 4-6 weeks required
when following conventional treatment for a sprained ankle. ==================== Full Story Below:- According to Dr. Buhler:- The
chiropractic profession contains some of the most profoundly innovative
physicians that I am aware of, and Dr. Craig Buhler is one of them. His
work focuses on the interrelationships between muscle function, range of
motion, and restriction that contributes to pain. In 2002, he
established the Advanced Muscle Integration Technique (AMIT) in a clinic
in Utah, where I've seen him as a patient. One of the
reasons that motivated me to see him is his phenomenal success in
treating world-class professional and Olympic athletes, and helping them
improve their performance. I first became aware of Dr.
Buhler's work through Jeff Hays, the producer of the film Doctored,
which was recently released. Dr. Buhler and I are both featured in the
film but he was actually one of the major inspirations for the film.
Dr. Buhler was the chiropractic physician for the professional
basketball team Utah Jazz for 26 years. And as a result of his
techniques, the team had the lowest player missed games due to injury
(PMGI) rate in the NBA — 61 player-missed games due to injury within a
20-year long span, compared to the league average of 171 in the same
timeframe. "'Then, between 2001 and 2006 when I stopped
having access to the players, we had the most rapid increase in PMGI
rates in the league in the 25-year period,' he says. 'It validates what
happens when you use the technique that I've developed and integrate it
with good quality medical and training care.'" As someone
who is passionate about exercise, I'm particularly excited about Dr.
Buhler's methods, because, invariably, when you participate in an
aggressive exercise program you're bound to become injured at some
point. Injuries and resulting chronic pain is also what typically ends a
professional athlete's career, and it can certainly put a damper on
anyone's quality of life. History of the AMI Technique
How the AMIT therapy was developed is an interesting story in and
of itself. It began with Dr. George Goodheart, a chiropractic physician
from Detroit, Michigan, who developed a technique called applied
kinesiology, and Dr. Allan Beardall, also a chiropractor.
"Dr. Goodheart discovered the relationships between organs and
glands, muscles, and the vertebral levels in the spine," Dr. Buhler
explains. "Dr. Allan Beardall studied with Goodheart. Allan was
nationally ranked distance runner, so he treated a lot of elite distance
runners. Dr. Beardall found that elite athletes would come in with
various types of injuries, and he would apply the chiropractic
techniques he learned and the applied kinesiology techniques that he
learned.A lot of the conditions got better, but others didn't. Or they'd
get better until the athlete stressed themselves working out, and then
they'd breakdown again. He said, 'You know, there's got to be a reason
why they breakdown.'" Dr. Beardall launched into an
in-depth clinical research project, in which he studied the available
chiropractic techniques to determine where, when and why they worked, or
did not work. Then, he added acupuncture into the mix, which brought it
to a whole new level. "He defined eight reflex systems
for 310 muscles in the body. At that time, Goodheart had discovered
four reflexes for about 85 muscles," Dr. Buhler says. "Allan took Dr.
Goodheart's work and expanded it dramatically. He redefined anatomy.
We defined divisions to muscle. Like the quadriceps: they are
considered four muscles, but in reality there are 12 divisions to those
complex muscle systems. He had developed ways of isolating and testing
those muscles, so we could go through [a person] and isolate every
single muscle in their body to determine whether they're neurologically
and proprioceptively intact or not. We can find areas of instability,
which show us where a person's vulnerabilities to injuries are, and that
allows us to predict where injuries will occur." Getting to the Root of the Problem is the Hallmark of any Successful Therapy
One of the reasons why Dr. Buhler's AMIT therapy is so profound is
because it integrates so many effective techniques. Essentially, it
incorporates the most effective techniques from chiropractic or
acupuncture and other modalities for any given problem or area of your
body. One of the key discoveries was that if your muscle is
overloaded beyond its ability to handle the stress placed upon it,
either due to lack of conditioning or trauma, a couple of different
things occur: Either you may tear the tissue, and/or your nervous system
will deactivate the muscle through a series of reflexes called
proprioceptors. Your muscle system and nervous system
relate to each other from within tiny muscle fibers called spindle
cells, which monitor stretch. If your muscle is overloaded too rapidly,
the spindle cells will temporarily inhibit the muscle. The next time you
contract the muscle, it will fire again. Similarly, cells within your
tendons called Golgi tendon organs also measure and monitor stretch. If
your tendon is stretched too rapidly or exceeds its integrity, the Golgi
tendon organs will temporarily inhibit the muscle. But the next time
the muscle fires, it will again fire appropriately.
"But there's a fail-safe system," Dr. Buhler explains. "It's where the
tendon attaches into the periosteum of the bone and the little fibers
there are called Sharpey's fibers. Those fibers are loaded with little
receptors that monitor tension. And if the integrity of those fibers are
exceeded, they inhibit the muscle, just like a circuit breaker would
inhibit an electrical circuit. Once that happens, the
muscle will still fire under passive range of motion. But if you load
the muscle, it gives way. If you continue to load the muscle, your body
creates pain at the attachment points to protect you. What the central
nervous system does at that point is compute an adaptive strategy by
throwing stress into the muscle next to it. Other tissues begin to take
on more of the load for the muscle that's been injured."
When other tissues and muscles take over to protect the injured site,
this adaptation "locks" into your neurology, which leads to altered or
adapted movement patterns. Essentially, it alters how you move and use
your body. While this takes stress off the injured muscle, allowing it
to heal, the adapted muscle is at a mechanical disadvantage, making it
more prone to injury. So that muscle then becomes the next site of
injury. This can set into motion a vicious cycle of progressive
injuries, cascading out from the original source. Dr. Buhler
echoes my own sentiments when he says that getting to the core problem
is essential, as treating the adaptation, the symptom, will never allow
for recovery. When you focus on the root of the problem, you can achieve
dramatic change and healing Now, when a muscle has become
neurologically and/or proprioceptively inhibited due to injury, it loses
its ability to inhibit its antagonist, so the antagonist muscle remains
tight through all planes of motion and never completely releases. A
typical example of this is chronic hamstring problems, which is the
result of the quadriceps becoming inhibited. "When
people come in with hamstring problems, invariably, I find a group of
the quadriceps shut down," Dr. Buhler says. "Once I reactivate [the
quadriceps muscle], they get off the table, the hamstrings are clear,
and they no longer have problems with tight hamstrings." Description of a Typical AMIT Session
A typical AMIT session begins with taking an in-depth case history —
when and how the injury occurred, along with your health and medical
history. This provides insight into the potential "layering" or cascade
effect caused by your original injury, and the potential sources of your
problem. At this point the patient's central nervous system is assessed
by evaluating the atlas/axis/occiput complex, which is the upper part
of your spine that affects the brain stem of your central nervous system
directly. Next, a full assessment of basic muscle function is done,
which also helps establish the functionality of your central nervous
system. As explained by Dr. Buhler, starting from your head, each muscle
is isolated to determine its neurological integrity. This is done using
a form of muscle testing. "I'm not testing for
strength, which would be seen in break testing and which a lot of
physical therapists and chiropractors do. What I'm looking for is the
tonal quality of that muscle," Dr. Buhler explains. Next
comes the actual therapy process, which he refers to as an "innate
guided systems approach." What this means is that your body creates
symptoms, such as pain, as a way of communicating that there's a
problem. "We've learned through our conditioning that
we just ignore the pain, or we take a medication to suppress the pain,
which is no more than saying to the body, 'Shut up. I don't want to hear
about it,' which allows the problem to become more advanced," he says.
"When you take anti-inflammatories and pain pills for a condition that
you're dealing with athletically, all that you do is set the body up for
more damage, because you override the protective mechanism of your
body. This approach honors your body, listens to your body, and uses
symptoms as a communication system." The therapy is
designed to reactivate the muscle and re-establish pain free motion.
Once function and range of motion has been reestablished, yoga or some
other form of training program designed to strengthen the previously
inhibited muscle can bring you to a whole new level of performance.
Naturally, this is particularly valuable for professional athletes.
"We've dropped the time of a 5,000-meter speed skater by a
minute and a half, simply by clearing the calf muscles and the
quadriceps. That was accomplished in 24 hours," Dr. Buhler says. "And
we've increased vertical jump on a basketball player by seven inches in
24 hours, simply by reactivating the quads and the calf muscles. That's
staggering. That's unheard of. But it's an example of what happens when
you reactivate and reinitialize those muscles back into the nervous
system. It's pretty dramatic." An Example of How AMIT Can Work "Like Magic"
A good example of how Dr. Buhler's method can achieve results akin
to "miracle," is the technique he uses for sprained ankles, an injury
caused by a sudden sideways or twisting movement of your foot.
Typically, a severely sprained ankle can take you out of commission for
several weeks. Dr. Buhler's manipulation technique can often get you
back on your feet in a matter of minutes. There are three grades of
severe ankle sprain. Grade 1: Overstretched ligament Grade 2: Slight partial ligament tear Grade 3: Complete ligament tear
According to Dr. Buhler, grade 1and 2 sprained ankles are "an easy
fix." Unfortunately, the standard medical approach is to keep weight off
the ankle for at least a week, using crutches. The second week,
standard treatment typically includes some passive range of motion
therapy. After that, you slowly start rehabilitating with more
aggressive therapy. Recovery can take four to six weeks.
Dr. Buhler's model looks at this type of injury in a wholly different
light. An inversion sprain, which is the most common, occurs when the
talus bone — the top bone in your ankle — rotates and the heel bone
counter-rotates. This causes the long bone on the outside of your ankle
called the fibula to drop inferior and shift backwards at the attachment
in your knee. That changes the dynamic of your joint mechanoreceptors,
causing severe pain when you put any weight on the joints.
"The lateral stabilizers to the ankle muscle become inhibited
because of the trauma. They no longer fire to support the joint. Every
time you take a step, you're stepping and weight-bearing on a joint
that's distorted and unstable, and your body automatically creates pain
to protect you," Dr. Buhler explains. "You get the swelling, because the
capillary hemorrhages. Your body again is having to deal with the
inflammatory process and needs to begin the healing process."
To address this, the technique calls for adjusting the ankle mortise
back into alignment, so the joint tracks properly. He then resets the
lateral stabilizer muscles with a specific reflex method. In the
beginning, when the muscles are challenged, they will be weak and
painful. But, once they've been activated, upon retesting they are once
again solid and pain free, and can withstand weight bearing.
"Now, when the athlete or the patient gets off the table and
begins to walk, the first step is painful, the second step is less
painful, and each subsequent step they take is less and less painful, to
where they can run back and forth in the clinic without any pain. That
way, walking and running actually becomes therapeutic, because you're
stimulating the lymphatic drainage system," he says. Summary of the Advanced Muscle Integration Technique (AMIT)
As explained by Dr. Buhler, each muscle in your body has the
following points or reflexes that relate to it. All of these points or
reflexes must be stimulated. When a muscle is inhibited, the
corresponding reflexes will become painful. One acupuncture point Vascular point Lymphatic point Two organ or gland reflex points Origin and insertion of the muscle Spindle cells
In addition there are three vertebra in the spine, two of which are
reactive that need to be adjusted. Dr. Buhler explains the process of
testing and treating the muscle using these reflex points:
"'A person will wake up one morning with pain in their elbow, and it
really hurts. They don't remember hitting themselves, but it's painful.
They go to the doctor. They're diagnosed with epicondylitis or tennis
elbow, and prescribed an anti-inflammatory. Well, that point may be an
acupuncture point related to a muscle in the opposite knee,' Dr. Buhler
says. "As we go through the therapy and we stimulate those reflex
points, they are quite painful. People are kind of shocked at the fact
that I can precisely isolate those painful spots. 'How did you know I
hurt there? I've been hurting there for six weeks, and you nailed it,'
they'll say. You go through that process of reactivating all those
reflexes, and then you go back and retest the muscle for function. It's
not a comfortable procedure, but it's effective." Other Techniques Integrated into Dr. Buhler's Therapy Dr. Buhler also integrates other techniques and modalities into his work, such as:
The Nasal Specific Technique: Developed by the late Dr. Stober,
a dual-licensed naturopathic physician and chiropractic physician who
practiced in Portland, Oregon. The technique is based on manipulation of
your skull sutures. They claim the bones of your skull fuse, but this
is incorrect. Your cranium actually expands and rotates with each
breath, and this movement is tied into your cerebral spinal fluid.
Dr. Stober used the technique in the treatment of children with
Down syndrome, muscular dystrophy, sinus problems, migraine headaches,
concussions, and Meniere's disease. The technique involves inserting a
small balloon, the size of your little finger, into the nasal passage,
where it is inflated and released a number of times on each side. This
tends to expand your cranium from the inside out, unlocking those suture
lines, and reestablishing the cranial mechanism. Network
Spinal Analysis: Developed by Donny Epstein, this technique involves
toggling and adjusting your atlas with very light-contact adjustment.
Epstein's position is that when you experience emotional stress
and trauma, your central nervous system goes into a state of
contraction. Surrounding your brain and spinal cord is the meningeal
system. This tissue is attached via tiny ligaments called dentate
ligaments to the base of your spine and upper cervical spine. In
response to emotional stress and trauma, the meningeal system contracts,
pulling those dentate ligaments, which can distort the vertebra from
inside your spinal canal. Regular meningeal adjustments
aren't as effective to address this kind of distortion. But what
Epstein discovered was that by lightly holding specific points on the
sacrum and different parts of the spine, the central nervous system
begins to release that meningeal tension. |
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