Index to Chiropractic Literature
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ID 26502
  Title Mind, trauma & muscle inhibition Part II: When muscle inhibition is not ignored. Evidence of effectiveness from the NBA
URL https://www.apcj.net/weissfeld-hypothesis-mptsd-part-2/
Journal Asia-Pac Chiropr J. 2021 ;1(3):1-9
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Publication Type Article
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Part I of this series experimentally validated a hypothesis that muscle inhibition (the ongoing weakness of individual  muscles  clinically  revealed  through  manual  muscle  testing)  is  sustained  by  trauma-induced  maladaptive learning; a muscular form of PTSD (mPTSD). It demonstrated that about 90% of inhibited muscles would immediately strengthen,  and  80%  would  remain  strong  over  a  period  of  weeks,  when  treated  only  with  side-to-side  eye movements, a part of EMDR, an accepted intervention for PTSD. This therapy has been theorised to gain its effects by interrupting reconsolidation (re-storage) of activated (recalled) and therefore destabilised memories. Currently, muscle inhibition is ignored and considered untreatable in most musculoskeletal specialties. The chiropractic subspecialty of Applied Kinesiology however, has been reversing muscle weakness for over 50 years, but because of a dearth of reporting and studies of the treatment, it has gone unnoticed in most muscle inhibition literature. A 20 plus-year ‘demonstration’ of correction of muscle inhibition in the NBA has left statistical and other evidence suggesting what is possible when the condition is routinely treated. Particularly striking is the finding that when treated immediately, mild to moderate sprain-strain injuries can recover in minutes, not weeks, putting into question universal assumptions we hold about the nature of tissue damage in injuries.

Author keywords: Muscle inhibition - PTSD, Chiropractic - Theory - NBA - Applied Kinesiology.

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