Diagnostic tests
With tests, we determine where the problem is, centrally or peripherally.
Flexion – Extension
With flexion-extension or lateral bending of the head or spine, we affect the neurodynamic.
Limb manipulation
By manipulating the limbs, we affect the peripheral nervous system.
For example, in a nerve injury at the point where the nerve comes out of the spinal canal, all the above connective tissue, which is growing there, pushes the nerve even further. The mobilization of the neural tissue aims at “widening” the point of injury and along with the flexibility, the same nerve point will not be being pressed.
The slump test is diagnostic, but we can use it therapeutically in a radiculitis (central and peripheral nervous system dilatation).
Mobilization:
- the median and ulnar nerve at the upper limbs
- the tibial and peroneal nerve at the lower limbs
Indications:
- intervertebral disc herniation
- radiculitis
- nerve suppression
- spinal cord problems
- stroke, cerebral palsy
- Multiple Sclerosis
- headaches
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