How does Kinesiology help healing of injuries?
Your body has an innate ability to heal itself from injury. Sometimes, it just needs a little help.
Kinesiology helps to identify what those factors are for the body to heal from its injuries.
An injury may occur to any structure or function of the body. There are also many different types of injuries. These injuries may be caused by one major event or a series of smaller events that cause damage to a part or parts of the body over time.
Psychological: Stress, an adverse or traumatic event, or long term exposure to a stressful or traumatising environment.
Mechanical: Broken bones, cuts and scratches, tears and ruptures of tissues.
Thermal: Cell and tissue damage by extreme temperatures. (eg. Burns, frost bite), Hyperthermia & heat stroke), hypothermia & frost bite
Chemical: Cell and tissue damage by caustic agents (e.g., strong acid or bases) or damage due to toxins.
Electrical: The adverse effects of current passing through the body. electric shocks, this can cause localised burns or damage to organs.
Radiational. Radiation injury is damage to tissues caused by exposure to ionizing radiation.
NB: While kinesiology does not diagnose or treat any of these injuries directly, we can assist you alongside your medical professional to improve the functioning of your bodies own innate healing abilities.
What is Healing?
Healing is usually activated as soon as the injury occurs and goes through three stages.
- Inflammation: A vital part of the immune system that protects the injury from infection while also working to repair the wound.
- Repair: This is when the tissues begin to repair. The main structural protein for the tissues in our body is Collagen.
- Remodeling: once the site is repaired, the area needs to under go remodeling or maturation. This helps ensure that the tissue returns to proper function.
There are so many factors in each of these three steps, its quite a complex process. Yet, our bodies know exactly what and how to do so. Sometimes however, there are factors in our life that may impair any or all of these processes.
What does your body need to help it heal fast and well?
- Adequate nutrients: not only for the normal functioning of your body but also for the additional needs of repairing and rebuilding damaged tissues.
- Opportunities for physical and emotional rest and recuperation.
- A healthy and balanced immune system. To fend off infections.
- A stress free (or close to) environment. Stress turns off the healing process to preserve energy for fighting for your life.
- A healing mindset: past trauma, and some emotions and belief systems can sometimes be inhibiting the healing process.
In Kinesiology we work HOLISTICALLY. Mental – Emotional – Structural – Biochemical – Environmental- Energetically
During a kinesiology session for injury healing we aim to.
- Reduce pain and inflammation
- Energetically activate the healing process,
- Reduce stress in all areas of the body and mind.
- Release the energetic and emotional memory of the trauma from the body.
- Identify factors that will help improve and facilitate the healing.
What does a kinesiologist do to help the body heal from injury?
Your Body already knows what it needs to heal itself. Kinesiology has an incredible tool called muscle testing, that allows us to tap into information held within the body. It can assist us to find and correct imbalances, stressors, and any resource needs.
A Kinesiologist will:
- Look at the structure: muscles, ligaments, skin and other structural factors around the area (not just the place there is pain, ensuring they are all working properly.
- Balance all the energetic pathways that relate to the area of concern.
- Assess any nutritional or environmental factors that the body needs to improve the bodies healing.
- Identify and release/re-pattern emotions , belief systems and mental and physical patterns that may be inhibiting healing.
What should I expect from Kinesiology session for injury healing?
Its hard to tell you exactly what you personally will expect in a session or how you will feel after. It will greatly depend on how long you have had the injury, what needs to be done and how involved you want to be. For those that have had an injury for a long time, you may have a miraculous recovery over night. (usually this is when the physical body has healed already but its the emotional memory of the trauma that has been creating the pain) Or, it may take a few sessions and some homework, to get to the core of the issues before real change is experienced. For those with acute injuries, Kinesiology is non-invasive, and also has the tools to work on the injury without directly working on the injury site. This avoids further damage to the tissues. Clients often experience a reduction in pain and improvement in flexibility and function with each session. Here we are able to support the body along the healing journey, provide it with the tools it needs and activate it own natural healing abilities. Kinesiology is a great addition to your care team through this process.
Activate your bodies own healing abilities. with Kinesiology!
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If you want to learn a bit more about your bodies healing process, this little video is short and conscise!
Please note: Be Your Potential Kinesiology does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. We do not advise you to disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website.
Testimonials
I broke both my bones in my lower leg playing with the kids at work. Unfortunately the healing process wasn’t going too well. PLUS it had set a few degrees out. I had been to the physio the day previously and was due to go again the next day, but I thought I would see what Jess could do to help me. After the session I felt less pain and more fluidity in my movements and my physio the next day was dumbfounded about how much flexibility I had gained. I have chosen to get the leg broken again and reset straight, so I will be back for some more treatments. – A. Rodgers