ORTHOKINESY :
HEALING MOVEMENT THROUGH MOVEMENT

"The majority of injuries occur while moving: during sports activities, walking, etc. Since our studies, we learned how to manipulate the patient while lying down on the examination table. However, the body is withdrawn then from gravity and no longer subject to tensions that may be at the origin of its postural pains.

The brain is equipped with what we call an ‘injury memory’. This means that it remembers under what circumstances an injury occurred. Each time the patient will carry out this gesture again, there will be a hesitation at the moment the amplitude is reached. This microscopic avoidance is a dynamic proprioceptive disorder which causes, in the long run, muscular and fascial defence tensions.

By asking the patient to make this movement and by treating it simultaneously, we send signals to the brain that will favour a recalibration of the gesture and a reharmonization of the muscular, fascial and articular tensions.

Depending on the orthokinesic assessment (postural and dynamic), other treatments complementary to the manipulation may be necessary to rebalance and durably release a posturo-dynamic proprioceptive disorder".