Last week I was at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic teaching a course on the cutting edge therapy technique Neuromuscular Re-education with the techniques’ developer Dr Peter Levy.  The course is pretty tough, and is certainly on of the hardest out there.  A good number of the chiropractors in attendance were being challenged in new ways, and a few dropped out after the first day.

As usual the piece de resistance was the corrective protocol for the shoulder, which can deliver amazing results in a few minutes (albeit eye watering minutes).  The secret to the method of to treat the shoulder as a functional unit, that is to say, work all of the muscles that control shoulder movement.  Very few people do this, but when done right it can give you back movement you had given up for lost.

Other big parts were the hip treatments, and a nice little method for treating knees that sends physio’s running to the hills in utter fear!

I demonstrated a hamstring treatment on one delegate.  By the end his damaged hamstring was more flexible that his good one, again showing the amazing results you can get with proper, targeted soft tissue work, and when it some to this type of therapy, neuromuscular re-education really is the gold standard.