NERVE PAIN
Nerve pain in your arm or leg or nerve pain in another part of your body has several causes. The most well-known nerve pain is a hernia in your back or neck. With a hernia the nerve root is pinched by a bulge of an intervertebral disc. All nerve entrapments that happen within the spine are called central nerve entrapments. All the nerves that gets trapped outside the spine are called zeperiferous nerve entrapments.
PERIPHERAL NERVE ENTRAPMENT
What many people don’t know is that nerve pain can also be caused by muscles that pinch nerves. Nerves run through and along muscles and tendons. In an ideal world, they glide smoothly past each other. However, due to overload, scar tissue or stiffness, the nerve can be pinched by the surrounding tissues. Often hernia complaints are actually a peripheral nerve entrapment.
SYMPTOMS
WHAT CAN YOU NOTICE ABOUT NERVE PAIN?
Unfortunately, these complaints are often misdiagnosed and not treated correctly. If there is nerve pain due to nerve entrapment, exercise or hard massage often does not help, because it actually increases the tension in the surrounding tissue, thereby increasing the pressure on the nerve. Stretching a nerve that is still entrapped by surrounding tissue can also worsen symptoms. First, the entrapment will have to be resolved.
OUR TREATMENT
Diagnosing, detecting and effectively treating a peripheral nerve entrapment is not for everyone. The cause of nerve pain is often not in the same place where you feel the nerve pain. Through years of studies in this field and the experience gained in practice, we can find and solve the exact location of the entrapment with the use of among other things Active Release Techniques. The treatment is entirely manual (no machines) and because our technique is so effective, it often only takes a few sessions to solve a nerve entrapment.
