Linzy Mooney, RPT will see every Health Ex
patient during one-on-one appointments with
her.

Linzy uses an indirect manipulative technique of extreme gentleness for the treatment of somatic dysfunctions. Her approach is pain-free because the technique is indirect and therapy is directed away from the restricted barrier causing the pain. Developed by Lawrence Jones, DO, FAAO, this passive procedure places the body in a position of greatest comfort, relieving pain by reduction and arrest of inappropriate proprioceptor activity that maintains somatic dysfunction—basically, neuromuscular reflexes with connective tissue. Nerves are singled out as reporting false information to the central nervous system maintaining the specific dysfunction.

The passive positioning of the patient results in maximum shortening of involved muscles and its proprioceptors reducing the neuromuscular firing to tonic levels. The therapist attempts to relax the muscle accomplishing the original strain position and reducing the involved muscles afferent firing frequency. This is done in slow motion with gentle muscular forces with no "surprise" for the central nervous system.

This procedure is appropriate for all physical and occupational rehabilitation. Its gentle and non-traumatic approach is safe and effective for treatment to fragile patients (such as the elderly, osteoporatic, fractures, pregnancy and infants). It is valuable with chronic pain patients’ dysfunctional joints, patients with severely
limited range of motion (adhesive capsulitis, cervical spondylosis) and reduces secondary muscle guarding. Pain associated with hyper mobility can also be treated.

The observations from Health Ex patients and therapists following this positional release technique confirm immediate reductions in pain, tissue tension and ease of movement. Click here to see what some patients say about our services.