Often, people are also working with tissue-based therapies such as massage. They can be complementary and help people's recovery. But we urge people not to rely on them too heavily or to treat them like a quick fix because they rarely restore strength or reteach movement patterns.
Massage Therapy often involves deep tissue, trigger point, or other forms of treatment that allow the therapist to locate knots and adhesions and then eliminate them. These areas of the body have usually been overworked. We often receive recommendations from massage therapists when a particular body region - like the IT band or upper back - is constantly strained.
When such a client goes through our discovery phase, we find that instead of the IT band being overworked, it could be the adductor or the vastus medialis, the inner part of the quad muscle, that is not functioning as it should.
The massage therapist locates the damage and the signs. We complement them to discover the under-activated or inhibited muscles. We work to reactivate those and then retrain the movement pattern.
Because of the massage, the individual's tension and adhesions should lessen, and their body will be better able to move as it was designed to. So you can see massage therapy and our work with neurological soft tissue therapy as complementary.
Though the type of tissue therapy we deliver is different - we mainly use motion and electrical stimulation to achieve the desired outcome.
Evo Performance Rehab’s Neuro-Therapy differs from massage therapy in that we focus our approach on the body’s control center, the nervous system. To Evo, these structural symptoms stem from a deeper underlying cause… neurological dysfunction.
Now let’s say you come to Evo Performance Rehab.
We will assess your movement and perform a neurological search to find which areas have compromised neurological communication and the ability to absorb force.
Your movements may show that your hamstrings don't lengthen and contract well. In order to compensate for this, your back flexes and extends excessively when you lift something or bend over.
Your neurological search may show, for example, that your hamstrings aren't working enough and can't absorb force.
The treatment focuses on re-integrating your hamstrings into the movement patterns of what previously stressed out your back.
After just one or two sessions you can touch your toes with zero pain again!
After phase one, the legs and hips are now working much better at supporting the low back and taking stress off of the area.
Now, strength development is happening in the previously inhibited areas and you are feeling the ability to move and exercise without making your back stressed.
By the end of phase two, you are mostly pain-free and your body is working for you and not against you!
When symptoms are the focus of treatment, a lot of time and energy can be wasted!
This also clears the way for proper strengthening.
Many people can't get the most out of their physical therapy exercises because their bodies prevent them from using their muscles the way they're supposed to.
With Neuro-Therapy, we can correct this imbalance and make progress in tandem with your current therapies!
One of our rehab specialists will be happy to talk with you during a free consultation call to learn more about your issues and determine if Neuro-Therapy is likely to benefit you.
If you live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, you can visit any of our facilities and work with a Neuro-Therapy practitioner to complete an evaluation treatment.
Experience a personalized treatment plan that uses movement and specific neurological stimulation to retrain your nervous system to work in "inhibited" areas.
Adam Bisek, a bodybuilding physique competitor and personal trainer came to Evo Performance Rehab after he had his pec torn and surgically reattached. Adam went through our Neuro-Therapy process and drastically accelerated his recovery.
Normal time to being able to do pushups post surgery: 6 months
Adam's time: 6 weeks
Normal rate of regaining range of motion: 5 degrees per week
Adam's Rate: Full range of motion within 3 treatments.
Zavier is a talented Running Back, but recently had a knee surgery and a major ankle surgery. Zavier came to Evo Performance Rehab and is now far surpassed what he thought 100% would be for him and the function of his ankle.
Working with Dom and his team at Evo was an exceptional experience. As someone who spends an average of five hours a day driving, I’ve been struggling with flare-ups of sciatic nerve pain. Dom’s expertise and thorough approach in diagnosing the root cause of my pain made all the difference. After just one session, I felt immediate relief, and I’m already looking forward to my next visit. The therapy offered at Evo is truly unique, and the results are undeniable. If you're dealing with pain, do yourself a favor and check them out—you won’t regret it!
I went for lower back pain and after finishing the treatment sessions my back feels brand new. They are very flexible with scheduling as well.
I was referred to Tyler with chronic lower back problems. He worked with me to find the root cause of my issue and greatly reduce the work load on my lower back by getting the correct muscles firing in the correct order. I would absolutely go back in the future with any chronic body problems!
Find a detailed list of injuries we treat on our Injuries page.
Often with the neurological soft tissue therapy process, we can see some results immediately within the first evaluation treatment. Normally, once someone engages in the therapy program, they are seeing an upward trend that sees them getting significant relief from their pain within the first four sessions.
They typically experience this within one to two weeks. So usually someone's symptoms are greatly reduced unless they have an extremely acute injury or a significant amount of physical damage.
Several factors can contribute to how quickly someone sees results. These include how well do they follow through on recommendations given for things like posture, or other recovery factors like nutrition, sleep, stress, etc. Even though each person is different, there are predictable levels of progress that one would hope to see.
On rare occasion, if we are not seeing normal levels of progress, we will communicate to the client to let them know these levels of progress are less than we are expecting. Although this is infrequent, we are completely the advocates for the best interest of the client. If there is something unforeseen, or if there is more structural damage than someone was aware of, we may, based on the progress or lack thereof, be able to recommend someone with a great deal of confidence to the right move for what they need to recover to the best level they are capable of.
This can differ from person to person. But we typically encourage you to go through at least two to three phases of therapy. The first phase is necessary for absolutely all clients and that is locating and re educating the sources of their issue. Typically, this takes about four sessions to work someone through to the necessary levels.
The second phase typically we are doing a lot of teaching on top of the rehabilitative strength work. So, if someone understands the concept of muscle memory (repeated use of a movement pattern creating neurological adaptation to continue that pattern more easily) they can understand why it is necessary to be consistent with the therapy process.
If you wanted to master the golf swing, you wouldn’t golf once a month or even once a week. You would want to do some level of practice frequently. Typically, we like to work with clients at minimum two times per week during their process to ensure that the muscle memory and movement patterns are consistently corrected and reinforced.
For someone to keep their results long term, there needs to be a combination of the neurological adaptations happening between the brain and the specific areas, as well as an awareness of how can that person change their movement and positioning and posture to allow them to keep their results long term.
This can differ for all people, but typically, we are confident of getting someone a lasting result within the first two to three phases of treatment. Usually we are not seeing someone again for the same issue. Nearly all of our clients develop the strength and learn enough about how to maintain their results during the process that they can keep them for lifelong success.
Learn more about this on our Why Evo page.
Each Neuro-Therapy process begins with a free phone consultation, followed by an in-clinic or virtual evaluation treatment session.
We walk you through the Neuro-Therapy process so you can see the significant differences that even one session can make.
This helps us find the best treatment plan for your lasting success.
