New to Afferentology?
The path I'd give any practitioner starting out.
Every practitioner has one. The patient who did everything right — the exercises, the stretches, the scans — and still isn't better.
The usual answer is more of the same. More strengthening. Another referral.
Afferentology starts somewhere else. A weak muscle is rarely a lazy muscle. Most of the time it's an inhibited one, switched off at the spinal cord because abnormal afferent input (sensory signals from an irritated tissue) is telling it to protect.
Exercising an inhibited muscle is like trying to make a car go when the throttle cable is made of rubber.
For me it started with one patient. Eighteen years of deteriorating health, and it changed the day the faulty input was found and removed. Read her story.
Follow the steps below in order. Each one builds on the last.
From your first free lesson to predictable results in clinic.
Practitioners who examine and treat the body with their hands: Chiropractors, Osteopaths, Physiotherapists trained in manipulation, sports therapists and other manual therapists. If you test muscles, or want to, this is for you.
No. Steps 1 and 2 cover what you need. Experienced testers usually find they have to unlearn a few habits first.
You can, but do Essentials first. It's free, and the Residency assumes you understand how afferent input controls muscle tone.
Steps 1 and 2 are free. The Low Back Pain class is £180. The Clinical Residency is £550, or two monthly payments of £300. Membership is £20 a month or £120 a year but is only available to practitioners who have completed the Clinical Residency or a Live Workshop.
It's free, and it will change how you look at the next weak muscle you test. To your strength! - Simon King