Naprapathtreatments

Naprapathytreatments are the different treatments a Naprapath uses on people with different kinds of pains or disorders in the musculoskeletal system. There is an article about naprapathy, but there is no explanation on what exactly they do.

History

The year 2007 it's been 100 years since Oakley Smith started the first school of Naprapathy in Chicago, USA. With that, and so the naprapathy of today had begun, both as a phenomenon and as a treatment. Oakley Smith was from the beginning a chiropractor, but started hos own branch which he called naprapathy. Naprapthy uses several kinds of manual treatments as manipulation, mobilisation and different kinds of muscle treatments as massage, triggerpoint treatments, stretching and transverse frictions.

The goal is to achieve a better function in joints and muscles to gain an improved range of motion in the entire body. The core of this way of treatment is to combine the knowledge of the human musculoskeletal system into a holistic way of treating. Naprapathy also includes preventing and rehabilitating measurements.

Treatments

A naprapath examines, treats and work to prevent pain and dysfunctions in musculoskeletal system. When the interaction between muscles, joints and nervous system doesn’t work optimal pain occurs. For example; tension headaches is very common when stress increases with or when people are having to work at a computer very long hours, and the most common reason for this is tension in the neck- and shoulder muscles which can be treated easily by a naprapath. Other common pains or troubles in the body that can be treated by a naprapath are tennis arm, torticollis, shoulder-, lumbar-, ischias, knee-, jaw- and achillespains.^[1]

Manipulation(HVLA - High velocity low amplitude): The purpose is to normalise a function in the vertebrae joints or joints of the extremities. It’s performed by moving a joint to a position where the movement ends, then locking the other joints with the naprapath’s hands and perform a movement with a fast push, an impulse to the specific joint to increase the movement but not more than is anatomically possible. Almost always you hear a cracking sound, and that is from lessening the pressure inside the joint. The advantage of this treatment compared to mobilisation is that it needs less force, and is faster and only performed once.^[2]

Mobilisation: Unlike manipulation mobilisation is used with higher force and repetatively but in the same reasons as for manipulation. Mobilisation is also performed by moving a joint to the end of movement position and locking the other joints, but then applying the pressure to the joint to increase the movement slowly and several times.^[3]

Massage

Many naprapats these days use more than these three basic treatments. Many study also acupunkture, different kind of massage and physical training to supplement their knowledge.

References

1. ^ Skillgate, E, Naprapatins grunder, Studentlitteratur, 2009.
2. ^ Thomas F. Bergmann DC and David H. Peterson DC, Chiropractic Technique, Elsevier, 2010.
3. ^ Thomas F. Bergmann DC and David H. Peterson DC, Chiropractic Technique, Elsevier, 2010.

External links

• School of naprapathy in Sweden