Movement Video Resources

I’ve developed a number of movements in practice, which have been very useful personally for freeing up restriction in movement -both old problems and new silly things I’ve done to myself- and seem very useful for many of my patients too.

They’re a range of movements that move nerves, something that’s termed neurodynamics. I’ve been pretty into nerves for a while, and if you’ve read much else here, you’ll know that I think that cutaneous nerves are the way, the light and the answer, when it comes to pain and movement restriction, and the fact that I’m using no other soft tissue methods in practice to achieve some pretty cool changes is due to just how well that works.

I’ve struggled, to be perfectly honest, with showing patients how to use DNM to work on the things we do together, and I’m going to keep working on that, but luckily I’ve figured out other helpful things they can do, because there really wasn’t anything in the available neurodynamic literature that was directed towards cutaneous nerves, as much as
a) the longest nerves in the body are cutaneous, and run into the skin of your hands and feet,
b) with only a small number of exceptions, all your nerves terminate in the layers of skin,
c) cutaneous nerves are the most vulnerable, being on the outside of everything else, and
d) they go through extra layers of tissue to get into the skin, and quite commonly get bunged up getting there.

There is no book on this stuff. Yet.

So, all this considered, cutaneous nerves are worth moving more than basically any other nerve, which is why I spend my days doing exactly that- helping people’s nervous systems be more OK with movement, by moving nerves in the layers of skin. If that’s something people feel is too tricky to do themselves at home, these movements are a great way of ‘continuing the work’

Click here for the link to the videos, which are hosted on my education website, tactile tactics