Nerve Entrapment - 1
There are many techniques of examination and treatment in applied kinesiology that find and correct peripheral nerve entrapment. Discussed on this website are dorsal scapular and suprascapular nerve entrapment.
Peripheral nerve entrapment that is applicable to applied kinesiology’s conservative treatment excludes the catastrophic situations in which whole nerves or roots are crushed, or even in which conduction has been blocked in all or most of the axons. This complete — or almost complete — interruption of the axoplasmic continuity causes a near-total or total loss of neural function, with wallerian degeneration distal to the disruption. In the more moderate situation in which conservative treatment is effective, there is a conduction block in some of the fibers in a nerve, causing a corresponding loss of sensory and motor function.
Cross stimulation due to light pressure may disrupt normal nerve function . This loss may be transient or fluctuating; in some cases, the sensory or motor deficits would not even be perceived by the patient. Referring to this type of entrapment neuropathy, Korr1 states, “However, since some types of fibers are more susceptible to deformation block than others, garbled sensory input and incomplete and uncoordinated efferent output may be the clinically more significant consequences.” This correlates well with some of the unusual functional findings observed in applied kinesiology. Sometimes the dysfunction does not seem to follow the expected neurologic pathways. Release of an entrapment may increase range of motion in remote muscles as they relax. This may take place as muscles supplied by the pathway strengthen. Intermingling of impulses between neurons appears to be a common occurrence in peripheral nerve entrapment.
Severe entrapment due to nerve trauma and the more subtle cross stimulation and light pressure are discussed next.
1. Korr, I.M., "The spinal cord as organizer of disease processes: Some preliminary perspectives," JAOA, Vol 76, No 1 (Sep 1976)