ALMOST EVERYONE HAS A PAIN SOMEWHERE IN THEIR BODY. WHAT HELPS?
The answer is so simple and ingenious that it will surprise some people: Move. In the case of complaints, pain-avoidance behaviour, immobility and, in the long term, a deterioration in quality of life occur.
But there is good news for everyone: in 30 years of research, Roland Liebscher-Bracht and his wife Dr. med. Petra Bracht have succeeded in developing a therapy that can relieve patients of their pain permanently and naturally. Their aim is to enable all people to lead a pain-free, healthy life with full mobility until old age.
HOW DOES PAIN ARISE ACCORDING TO LIEBSCHER & BRACHT?
The movement system of our body naturally offers us the possibility to use 100 percent of our joint angles. However, most people use only about 10 percent of this in their everyday life! This is mainly due to the fact that modern living and working environments are strongly influenced by sedentary or one-sided, routine activities.
These minimalist, recurring movement patterns manifest themselves in our brain: brain programs store the frequently used movement sequences and, by controlling the muscles, ensure that they can be implemented quickly and precisely in everyday life. This is also where the tensions for the muscles are set in order to execute the movement patterns.
A healthy person has 656 muscles that are surrounded by fasciae - the soft tissue components of connective tissue. Every time a joint is stretched or flexed, parts of the muscles and surrounding fascia contract (agonist), while others give way and are stretched (antagonist). However, if we use only about 10 percent of our body's range of motion, our muscles and fasciae will no longer be stretched regularly to their full extent and thus become increasingly unyielding over time. Figuratively speaking, they "rust".
When sitting, for example, the muscles and fasciae in the front part of the body are not stretched due to the bent legs. If we adopt this position very often, these muscles and fasciae, if not stretched regularly, will gradually adapt to the posture. They become more and more unyielding and, if we stand up after sitting, they can no longer keep up with the necessary stretching to the required extent. Liebscher & Bracht speaks of a "shortening" of the muscles and fasciae. In our example, the muscular-fascial shortening in the front part of the body produces a corresponding forward traction force, as the necessary extension cannot be performed. In order to be able to stand up straight, the body tries to compensate for the forward traction force by the muscles and fasciae in the back area: It builds up a counter-tension beyond the normal level. Now there is a tensile force in both the front and back of the body due to the excessive muscular-fascial tension, which presses the joint surfaces and vertebral bodies so strongly together that wear and tear of cartilage, intervertebral discs and bones occurs.
Everywhere in the body tissues there are receptors that measure tensile and compressive stresses and speeds and transmit them to the brain. If the brain calculates from this information a wear and tear of the joints or spine that is greater than the body's repair capacity, the brain switches a pain in the corresponding body area to prevent the damaging movement. This makes the person concerned aware of the impending arthrosis or damage to the intervertebral discs - the pain alerts him or her, so to speak. Liebscher & Bracht therefore call this pain "alarm pain". In other words, our body alerts us not to carry on as before in order to stop the wear and tear on the structure. The most important finding is that pain usually exists independently of the damage and can therefore be "stopped" despite the damage.
THE PAIN THERAPY ACCORDING TO LIEBSCHER & BRACHT
In the manual therapeutic technique used by Liebscher & Bracht, osteopressurisation, the alarm pain receptors in the periosteum are specifically pressed. This allows the brain programs to be activated and reset, so that the muscular-fascial tensions normalize. As a result, the joint surfaces and vertebral bodies are also no longer pressed together so strongly, which is perceived by the receptors in our body and passed on to the brain. The alarm pain is set accordingly.
It can be observed again and again how effectively this works! The enormous effect of the therapy according to Liebscher & Bracht shows that the pain is not caused by the wear and tear of the structure itself, but by the excessive muscular-fascial tensions registered by the brain - which in turn are due to minimalistic and one-sided movement patterns. Already during the first treatment it can be determined whether the pain is due to muscular-fascial tension and whether Liebscher & Bracht therapy can help. 95 percent of all patients treated with Liebscher & Bracht pain therapy go home pain-free or with considerably less pain.
However, it is essential for the lasting effectiveness of Liebscher & Bracht therapy that the one-sided movement patterns that have led to the pain are consistently changed. Otherwise, the corresponding movement programs in the brain and the structure-threatening muscular-fascial tensions will soon build up again, so that the alarm pain is transmitted again.
However, because the modern everyday life of many people promotes one-sided movement patterns and rarely allows a consistent change in these routines, Liebscher & Bracht has developed various exercises that specifically counteract the muscular-fascial shortening. Anyone can view and participate in these so-called bottleneck stretches free of charge on Liebscher & Bracht's YouTube channel. In order to achieve permanent freedom from pain, the exercises must be applied consistently - parallel to osteopressurisation and beyond.
In an average of two to three treatments, the brain programs are repeatedly reset and retrained through the exercises, which are initially controlled in the practice. If the patient is finally able to keep himself pain-free through the exercises, he is assigned to one of the bottleneck stretching groups in order to provide long-term care. How often he takes part in these groups is up to him. However, optimum results are most likely to be achieved with regular participation. Active participation is an important part of the therapy, especially in the prevention of pain.
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