The majority of right-handed people lean more on their right legs. When we examine the rotation of the right side of the body and the hip joint on the same side, the muscles are strained. Thus we expect the reduction of the amplitude of these movements. Overcharges can injure the absorbing hyaline cartilage discuses, causing as such low back pain and sciatica. The left leg is weaker, so the neck muscles are overcharged on the left side. This leads to stiffness and pain as well as to slipped discuses pressing on the nerves (protrusion, prolapse, hernia, cervical, cervicobrachial syndrome). Because of the contact with the neck blood vessels, people have dizziness, headaches, double visions, nausea, instability… The chest part is characterized by local signs, as well as pain and throbbing in and through the chest area. Symptoms do not always follow the asymmetry of the body, but it is important to be taken into account!
The diagnosis and the therapy at Tranfić Polyclinic are intertwined with the monitoring of symptom distribution during treatment. Alongside with our physical examination, we rarely demand other examinations like EMNG, CT or MRI. Warm water leads to relaxation of deep muscles of the spine whose mobility is linked with the mobility of the hips and shoulders. We tend to improve the rotational and buckling movements of the spine backwards. If you bend the spine forward, you reduce the turn to the left and to the right; you also reduce the raising position of the arm and you shorten your lunge. Binding the body or doing it with loads cause damage that degenerate discuses and the reversed direction of the therapy is a natural choice!
Before inventing the balancing table at Tranfić Polyclinic, we used to do massage for the relaxation of the muscles. We did both decompression electronic (traction) and manual-medical (chiropractic) therapy and performed them in order to relieve muscles. But it was quite difficult for us to reach deep muscles along the spine, so we were hampered by their eccentric contraction. This increased the price of the therapy. Doing massage on the balancing table one can lean backward, rotate much better and do it with greater effectiveness than doing backstroke swimming. That is because there is no upward force! All exercises on the balancing table have stronger effects. When you toss legs, the weight of your legs stretches your back too. With additional stretching of the physical therapist, we can surely say: try a therapy which has a hundred times stronger effect than backstroke swimming!
When we move the slipped disc from the nerve root, we move the numbness and the pain, for example from the right foot to the lower leg, later to the upper leg and finally to the buttocks. We bring back symptoms to the starting point, eliminating the cause of the pain and terminating the therapy of the lumbar spine. We work in the same way when we do neck therapy. We “pull out” the numbness and the pain from the hand towards the neck and the pain is removed and the possible problems described above are eliminated. During such kind of therapy there often occurs a spontaneous “click” in the desired direction which releases the nerve root and terminates the therapy.
Problems of the spine are of mechanical origin mostly. At Tranfić Polyclinic we use the “McKenzie method of diagnosis and treatment”. The treatment is based on monitoring and elimination of spine symptoms which are related to its position and mobility. The method is used by more than 10,000 physicians and physical therapists in the world. Swinging and stretching on the balancing table allows us to remove faster the disc from the painful nerve roots. It also allows us to bring back the functioning of the joint. Since such balancing mobilizes the entire spine except for the cervical spine, that part of the spine is treated with the TRANFIX strap which is similar with the European patent as of 2012.
The balancing table represents a great advantage because it has unilateral action on the deep back muscles for the correction of deformities (scoliosis, kyphoscoliosis …); it also helps in the movement after brain attack and for children with cerebral palsy. Balancing techniques are used both in therapies and in the preparation for sports as tennis, high jump sports as well as for other types of sports. The techniques help in the aesthetic body shaping since one’s flexibility is developed in order to achieve and maintain the most beautiful body shape, with less cellulite, firmer buttocks and raised breasts as a result of the activation of muscles. Balancing therapies of the spine as well as other similar physical methods lead to faster recovery and are more economical. You can feel better buckling of the spine backwards and better rotation after only ten minutes of work on the balancing table or with TRANFIX strap.
For the benefit of patients, professionals and the society we are planning to develop this methodology both at Tranfić Polyclinic and at related institutions. A good introduction to the methodology is the lecture scheduled in Biokovci at the demand of local experts. The lecture will be held on 5th December 2013 and is open for other professionals. Advance subscription is required.