3 is The Key to Learning

Published: 28 November 2022
Written by Jocelyn Olivier
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Categories: Brain Function, Handling Stress, NMR Efficacy, Self Help Techniques

3 is the Key to New Learning.

The Body Learns Through Repetition.

The first level of learning is getting the message through to the muscles. This involves neurological learning. Neurological learning boosts the brain’s learning facility which is usually knocked out by stressful experience, accident or trauma. When you try something new for the first time, your coordination system doesn’t know how to do it. When you try it again immediately there may be a glimmer of ‘almost’ understanding. It is only on the 3rd try that your coordination system begins to really ‘get it’; and OWN the new movement possibility. Sometimes it takes even longer than 3 repetitions to get it, but 3 is the maximum number of ‘trys’ that should be engaged on the first time around.

Repetition Exhausts the Nervous System.

Unlike the muscles, the nervous system becomes quickly exhausted when pushed too hard to do new activities. It is important to understand and expect that anything you just tried, your body intelligence will continue to integrate even as you sleep. (This has been validated in movement physiology research). When you perform the same activity the next day you may find it much easier.

First you have to prepare the body for new learning.

This is where NMR starts.  

The 1st Important Consideration in Corrective Bodywork: https://vimeo.com/395854829:

New NMR Trainings begin January 13 – 15th 2023 in-person or Live Streaming via Zoom. 

Find them at NeuroMuscular-Reprogramming.com/events.

For more information on our upcoming trainings, you can visit our Facebook Event Page, and remember: 

3 is the Key to Learning. 

Establishing Priorities in Hip Flexion Correction: The Art of Assessment

Published: 19 November 2022
Written by Jocelyn Olivier
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Categories: NMR Classes, NMR Efficacy

The Art of Assessment:

NMR allows you to do sequential muscle testing. Doing this, you can discover which muscles adversely affect, dominate or interfere with others. If your pelvis is torqued or anteriorly tilted on one side for instance, you can test Iliacus on the anterior tilt side to see if it’s inhibiting the external hip rotators. Often it is. Let’s say Iliacus ‘tests strong in the clear’ which means it looks like it is fully functional, but subsequently the Piriformis tests weak or inhibited (as do TFL and Peroneus).

Don’t Jump to Conclusions


Instead of getting to work to lengthen Iliacus to balance function, hold off on jumping to conclusions, and test the Pectineus to see if it’s ‘strong in the clear’ then subsequently retest the Iliacus. You may discover the Pectineus weakens or inhibits the Iliacus. It frequently does, AND, not only does it inhibit Iliacus, it makes the Piriformis even weaker. So Pectineus is the priority for work.

Pectineus Dominates Iliacus in Flexion/Internal Rot’n 

Pectineus and Iliacus in this scenario are called Reactive Muscles because the function or action of Pectineus interferes with the sequential use of the Iliacus.  Iliacus worked fine until asked to fire in sequence after Pectineus. Since these two are actually Synergists it can be inferred that Pectineus will always dominate the hip flexion/internal rotation stabilization function. The client will typically be experiencing  chronically tight adductors and weak lateral line of the leg.  This will be hidden by the internal rotation of the femur in the acetabulum. Check it out!

After each Correction – Reassess

After correcting the Pectineus begin your assessment all over again. EVERY TIME YOU CHANGE ONE THING IN THE BODY, MANY OTHER RELATIONSHIPS CHANGE AS WELL. 

What you first anticipated may be different than what’s actually going on.  You may be down to the next layer of the problem.  Re-assess constantly as you work to determine what is the next priority; don’t work off assumptions. Ask the body through muscle testing and passive ROM.

Learn more about incorporating this valuable assessment and correction tool into your tool kit to get even better results with your bodywork. Take NMR Mod 1 coming January 13th-15th, 2023! 

For more info and to enroll:  https://neuromuscular-reprogramming.com/event/mod-1-intro-nmr-protocols-hips-low-back-in-person-and-live-streaming-dallas-tx-jan-23/

 

NMR® Certifications begin soon around the country.

Published: 25 December 2019
Written by Jocelyn Olivier
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NeuroMuscular Reprogramming NMR® is a detailed and thorough structural bodywork used to assess and correct imbalances in coordination. It reprograms coordination dysfunctions at their source, in the Cerebellum of your brain. It acts as a kinesthetic conversation with the body that imprints new information in the motor control center of the brain, replacing damaged imprints created by trauma, injury, surgery, or repetitive strain from ergonomically inefficient use patterns.

It applies a simple protocol to any two (or more muscle used in sequence) to assess if those muscles are reciprocating well or being overused in compensation patterns. In the process of discovery the opportunity for correction is immediate and easy. The ABA protocol will enable you to resolve any neuromuscular sequencing errors. Learning NMR will give you a structured strategy for an integrated approach that gets the job done fastest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZklwXeBzHU

Function by function, muscle by muscle, motor coordination coherence is restored and your body is once again able to benefit from conditioning activities. In some cases the results are so immediate and dramatic that the conscious mind finds it difficult to follow. This is why NMR is called “The Missing Link” in the Rehabilitation process: it is a necessary step for the body to truly recover lost connections.

The Missing Link in Rehabilitation article is available from this link: https://neuromuscular-reprogramming.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/NMR-MissingLink-for-website-4_15.pdf

NMR used in conjunction with Physical Therapy, Fitness Training, Sports Medicine or Chiropractic is the fastest track to full recovery post injury.

Completing Modules 1 – 4 enables you to become a Certified NMR Therapist. The next NMR series starts in Mill Valley CA Jan 31st, Dallas Feb 21 – 23rd, Asheville NC May 1 – 3rd, and May 29 – 31st in NY city. Modules must be taken in order. To find out more about certification go to: NeuroMuscular-Reprogramming.com

NMR will make your current work more effective and long lasting.
You will find solutions for previously difficult to resolve tension problems.
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NeuroMuscular Reprogramming and Muscle Testing

Published: 17 December 2018
Written by Jocelyn Olivier
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Categories: NMR Efficacy, Techniques, Uncategorized

How does a NeuroMuscular Reprogramming practitioner go about discovering what’s not working in someone’s body? They use muscle testing!

So when a client has a specific problem, the NMR practitioner goes to the area where the symptoms are and discovers whether or not all the coordination in that area is working properly. Sometimes the area that’s tight is actually not functional; it’s weak. So we might have a situation where one might think that with a tight muscle, what is needed is to go and loosen it up. But a weak muscle doesn’t get stronger by being loosened up!

With NMR we realize that this area of the body is inhibited, and there’s some larger global consideration that is the reason why that muscle got tight in the first place. The muscle tightens in that area because of weakness. So before we start doing massage or bodywork on someone who has a tight, fixated area in their body, we need to muscle test to determine whether those muscles are on and functional, or off and inhibited.

NeuroMuscular Reprogramming

We are testing to discover how is the coordination system supporting the function of a joint and then connecting that joint with its relationship to the other joints in the body. So if so the complaint is in the hip, we want to see how that hip is affecting the opposite shoulder, or the opposite neck, for instance. Or if the complaint is in the neck, we want to know what’s the effect of the feet on the neck, or of the neck on the feet. We’re looking globally to see what all those relationships are. We want to get all those relationships sorted out and functional.

What mostly disables people in their coordination system is muscles firing out of sequence. Patterns are stored in the cerebellum in the back of the brain and the patterns don’t change until the body discovers that they aren’t working. So muscle testing is a way of cuing the brain to the fact that its strategies are dysfunctional. And in that moment of realization, the whole survival system of the body gets activated into the possibility of engaging the motor cortex at the top of the cerebrum into learning a new movement strategy to support the function of that joint and of the whole body!

NeuroMuscular Reprogramming classes are happening around the country, find out where and Enroll Today!

Conditions the Medical Profession Cannot Help

Published: 1 May 2018
Written by Jocelyn Olivier
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Categories: Brain Function, Handling Stress, Self Help Techniques
I thought to share this email exchange with a student from the east coast as it contains tips on handling abnormal conditions that clients can’t find solutions for in the medical world….
Hi Jocelyn-
I had a quick and sort of random question. I have a client who has hyperacusis in her left ear which is basically a super sensitivity to sound. She’s had it ever since she got in a big car accident in her twenties (she’s in her seventies now). She really has never found any solutions for it and it interferes with her ability to do everyday things.
I was wondering if you know anything about it and if neuromuscular work could be any benefit? She has told me she’s had trouble with that entire side since the accident.
Just curious if you’ve ever encountered anything like that!   A

 
Hi A
As far as the whole left side being ‘different since the accident’, that sounds like shock/trauma shutting down communications between the hemispheres. Don’t underestimate the power of Brain Buttons. Sometimes I use them for a good 10 minutes of the session along with a lengthy teaching about how stress turns off communication between the hemispheres and has some VERY predictable shifts that it does in our metabolism.
 
One word of warning: People who have had a condition for a long time may argue with your assessment and resist the work and so, often they get to keep the condition, because they find the therapist wrong or simply stop seeing them. I worked with a woman just like that at a Triathlon. Because I am so sure of what needs to happen I am able to command attention to what I am saying instead of allowing the recycling back through trauma experiences and remembered pain over and over again. She retold parts of the story to me repeatedly during a 1/2 hour tune up. Remembered tension recreates the tension.  Putting one’s attention on the space around you is another way to get away from being trapped in the trouble. 
 
I’ve never encountered anything like hyperacusis after an accident, but I encounter things I’ve never encountered most days these days. Trust your instincts. I listen carefully and imagine how the body shuts itself down and stores information as pattern recognition in what Milton Erickson would call ‘Compelling Personal Reference Experiences’.  These are the imprints the body/mind takes at moments of great danger to our survival.
 
Since she’s had this condition a long time and is now fairly old, my solution for the hyperacusis would be to wear a good sound modulator earplug such as drummers use. They are fitted to your ear. If I were her, I would wear it whenever I was in an environment with noise or even while watching TV.
 
Be well, stay happy, Jocelyn
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