Neurodynamics Therapy Ottawa

Our nerves are designed to slide and glide between our joints, muscles and other tissues as we move through our day. This “slide and glide” lets us move in all sorts of ways. 

When nerve movement becomes restricted – whether by injury, muscle tension or repetitive strain – the information the nerves give to your muscles and tissues becomes a bit less “crisp”, like a light that flickers or a phone charger that flickers between charging and not charging. 

When your muscles aren’t working together effectively due to this flickering information, your body is at greater risk for sprains, strains and chronic pain. 

Your Amped physiotherapist will do specific tests to determine if your issue is coming from a muscle, tendon or ligament – or if it is coming from the nerves that give information to those injured areas. 

Then, incorporated into your treatment plan, we will use a series of treatment techniques and exercises to treat the problem you came to us for help with, restore the normal movement of your nervous system, and get you back to doing what you love. 

It is important to treat the injured area – the hamstring, rotator cuff, tennis elbow, plantar fasciitis, etc. But, to make sure that you don’t come back to us with the same issue again next month, we also need to look at what might be causing that area to work differently than it should.