Neuromuscular Re-education

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• This technique is used by therapist to restore movement in nerves and muscles (restore normal movement)
• Nerves send signals between your muscles and brain so they know when, where, and how fast to move.
• The reason why you are able to do this is because we have nerve tracts that reinforce muscle movement which is stored in your memory
• Nerves and muscles can lose their pattern because of a certain injury that has been put upon them

STRETCHING

TREATMENT

• Your doctor refers you to physical therapist or occupational therapist
• The patient will be asked about any medical history and or your symptoms and will be checked on posture, balance, and joint movement
• neuromuscular re-education treatment plan will be designed based on your initial functioning
• During this process of the treatment you will go through repetitive motions, posturing, and stimulation that are designed to reinforce the nerve signals for functional movements; when this is done nerve signals are retained and it then becomes automatic to the body again
• This is first done in the hospital to have surgery which is done by the surgeon

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Out look of nerve

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

• Occupational therapy neuromuscular rehabilitation involves a therapeutic program that is designed to improve the function and to reduce the limitations for individuals who have experienced disease, trauma, and or disorders of the brain and spinal cord
• The goal of this is to help the patient return to the highest level of function/movement and to also have the ability to do things on their own in daily activities.
• The activities are to increase mobility, coordination, balance, and cognitive function.
• Exercises and splinting to manage plasticity and pain may also be included

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PHYSICAL THERAPY

• Neuromuscular re-education consists of manual techniques activities for balance and core control
• neuromuscular re-education activities in the out-patient orthopaedic setting is the same as it is in any other setting
• to re-train a body part to perform some task that the body part was previously able to do.

PERSONAL ACCOUNTS

• I would advise this procedure because this will help out with this person's personal well being and personal life
• For these individuals it is less of building strength as it is reteaching the muscles how to fire and react to different postural changes.
• Pain, inflammation and swelling due to surgery or traumas like rotator cuff injuries can lead to loss of neural muscular control and abnormal movement.
• Many of our patients have general tenderness, hypo-mobility and decreased motion of a joint(s). It is necessary for a joint(s) to have full motion to be fully functional.

WORKS CITED

• Neuromuscular Re-education." Abbydcenter. N.p., 22 Sept. 2013. Web. 19 Apr. 2017. .
• "Neuromuscular Re-education in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy." ACE Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Institute in Falls Church, Herndon, Alexandria, Fairfax, Vienna & Leesburg, VA. N.p., 13 Feb. 2014. Web. 19 Apr. 2017. .
• Database, IHealthSpot's Medical. "Neuromuscular Re-education." Neuromuscular Re-education - Orthopedics Library Demo. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2017. .