Healus Neuro Rehab Center

05/21/2025

Got a hip problem?

Consider if Muscle Pairing might be a factor…

Have you tested that hip against the opposite one that it alternates with? That’s simple!

We all know about reciprocal inhibition, synergists and kinetic chains and how those kinetic chains can have missing links and how those reciprocal inhibition triggers can get jammed by tissue chemistry and spasms, causing other muscles to fail to function.

The muscle pairs that even my graduates seldom think to pay attention to are the muscle pairs that are part of a functional sequence in coordination, such as walking coordination. Think about the fact that hips have to alternated all day long.

What if one of them tightens up and prevents the other hips from working? Can you see that one hip in this photo is narrower than the other? I’d be guessing the right one is narrower than the left and the external rotators are tighter.

How about the lowest branch of the Psoas that attaches at L5? Do you know how to test it? Have you ever tested the right one against the left one? Those last little hitches in the hips often involve that.

Scoliosis patterns require the right/let Psoas and right/left Iliacus to be tested against one another side to side.

(What other muscle pairs have you found important to test in sequence?)

05/15/2025

Muscle Pairs

Got a hip problem? Have you tested that hip against the opposite one that it alternates with? That’s simple!

We all know about reciprocal inhibition, synergists and kinetic chains and how those kinetic chains can have missing links and how those reciprocal inhibition triggers can get jammed by tissue chemistry and spasms, causing other muscles to fail to function.

The muscle pairs that even my graduates seldom think to pay attention to are the muscle pairs that are part of a functional sequence in coordination.

How about the lowest branch of the Psoas that attaches at L5? Do you know how to test it? Have you ever tested the right one against the left one? Those last little hitches in the hips often involve that.

Scoliosis patterns involve the right/let Psoas and right/left Iliacus be tested against one another.

What other muscle pairs have you found important to test in sequence?

05/05/2025

It REALLY DOES MATTER what order you do corrections in.

Yesterday I worked with someone for whom the Iliacus area was clearly ‘stuck’ and unmoving.

Easy I thought and tested her Iliacus against all the usual suspects: Glut Max, Ipsilateral Oblique, Glut Max. I found nothing.

So I backed up and tested Pectineus first. Pectineus was strong and Iliacus subsequently tested inhibited, so I corrected this simple and common imbalance. After THAT, same side Glut Max, Oblique, Psoas all tested weak sequencing them after testing Iliacus.

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04/28/2025

This post is for those who already know how to muscle test…
Unraveling a Scoliosis Figuring out a Scoliosis pattern and what the muscles are that contribute to holding it in that shape is an intellectual challenge. Here is a simple place to start... ..A new client presented with an unstable neck. Every time something jolted into her body she felt like her head was going to roll off. Three sessions later the neck is feeling MUCH better, out of pain but still stiff. There’s a lot of coordination confusion to unravel. There is also a Zigzag Scoliosis pattern, one that has segmental reversals in both the lumbar and cervical spine.
The first rotational issue to correct is the Thoraco-Lumbar T12/L1 rotation.
Rt QL rotation (T12) > Lt QL rotation
Then check side bending to the weak/inhibited rotation.
Lt QL (side bending) > Lt QL rotation
A further twist in this case was:

Left QL (Quadratus Lumborum) in the ‘Open’ position (beginning of ROM) > Rt QL rotation in the ‘Open’ position.
These inconsistent interplays between side bending functions and rotational functions MUST be checked and resolved in order to stabilize the spine.

Undoubtedly, there will be a direct connection between the rotational restrictions in the neck and the rotational preferences in the lumbar spine. Check that too…

04/26/2025

NMR Works with Strategy, Not Force.
Have you ever worked hard to push into muscles that are dense and rigid and found them unresponsive? Then next day your own body was sore and tired? I’ve heard therapists say they have strained their own bodies trying to get the knots out of others bodies.
The body cannot relax when the nervous system is hyper or overwrought. Bodywork alone cannot change tissue that is self-protective.
Why I like NMR…
With NMR the starting point is preparing the body to be able to change. Then, tissue work is simple, like sculpting warm clay.
It allows me to figure out what the REAL source of the pain is. Working on the spot feeling the pain without having a larger strategy for relieving the source is a temporary relief only.

03/30/2025

Why Learn NMR?

Essential info for getting results with neck and shoulders...

Muscle testing to assess functionality in a joint can tell you a lot… Instead of just releasing each tight muscle you come across, find out whether that muscle is functional or not, then you’ll know what to release.

Don’t know how to muscle test yet? Purchase the NMR Manual Muscle Testing video. Or, better yet, get it for FREE when you sign up for Mod 1 in Asheville, Florida, New Jersey, or Dallas

Lesson 5: Neck Rotation Dysfunction - Upper Back Torque and C2 rotation

Neck Rotation Dysfunction Our primary neck rotators at the top of the neck are Obliquus Capitis Inferior and Superior, with the stabilizing influence of the SCM.…

03/09/2025

Pinched Nerve Pain Resolved in ONE session.

A NMR practitioner came in with a pinched
nerve at C7. C7 was rotated to the right. The left shoulder was weak and sore.
The problem was in the lack of reciprocal function between the 2 sides of
Serratus Posterior Superior, a muscle so deep in the back of the upper back
that it is seldom attended to. A spasm in Left SPS keeps the shoulder girdle
rotated to the right. C2 will also be rotated to the right to match it. The
resulting compression factor from the bracing of the Scalenes was compressing
the neck base at C6/7 on the left.

The weakness in the left shoulder required a
bracing pattern under the back of the shoulder socket and a narrowing across
the chest in order to do bodywork. The area was massively muscular, overbuilt
from the compensations of continuing to work with this painful irritation.

Serratus Post Sup (SPS) was inhibiting
Subscapularis. Anterior Serratus was inhibiting Subscap.

Pec Maj Clavicular inhibited mid Trapezius
Subclavius inhibited mid Trap origin and
insertion.
Pec minor inhibited Mid Trap and Supraspinatus & Post Delt.

As all these muscle imbalances were resolved
more width across the left shoulder allowed more freedom of movement and less
pain and finally the ability to decompress the base of the neck.

The pinched nerve went away after 1
treatment, clearing up completely after a week. The practitioner could work without pain. No return visit necessary.

"It resolved itself after that! The
pinched nerve resolved and then there was a different weird patterning that was
annoying but it did continue to resolve itself completely within a week!



I did have other neck stuff that was functional, but not great and what you did made it all great! My left shoulder buildup has been there for years. No one’s ever dealt with it.” GD

02/24/2025

NMR Mod 1 is coming to Pt. Richey, FL May 2 - 4.

18 CEU’s and a whole new view on structural corrective bodywork.

Are you a structural bodyworker? A PT, DC, Fitness Trainer, OT?

NeuroMuscular Reprogramming will make your work easier AND more effective. What’s not to like?

How does NMR do that?

First it recalibrates the nervous system to regain access to the Parasympathetic side (PNS), where all healing and new learning takes place. It increases the effectiveness of ALL bodywork techniques. Tissues become more malleable, negotiable, responsive.

Then, using muscle testing, it targets what is the first order of business. It enables you to assess what needs to be addressed first in order for other things to change. When you structure sessions like this you get more done in a single session and the effects last.

Next it gives you a map to getting results most efficiently.

Your Prepay Discount brings the cost of class to $540. Reviewers pay only $270.

We hope to meet you there. A few private sessions will be available on May 2.

DM me if interested.

02/18/2025

NeuroMuscular Reprogramming NMR Asheville is coming April 4 - 6th!
Mark your calendars. Prepay in full by March 7th and save $60. Reviewers are invited to refresh their chops prior to adding Mod 2 later this year, (dates TBD).

02/16/2025

Much of my life's work free to see...

When I share Tips and Tools on these pages of Facebook and on the NeuroMuscular-Reprogramming website, it is always for the purpose of giving away food for thought for free to other practitioners who are new in the field or not so new but looking for new ways to accomplish what we are all aiming toward, ie., enabling the body to work better and be free from pain.

If the truth be known I’ve worked for free in teaching and running a school for all these 25 years. It is my private practice that sustains me.

Colleagues tell me that the hardest part of teaching is promoting and filling classes. I find it so.

This spring I have some Mod 1 & 2 classes coming up around the country in San Francisco, CA; Asheville, NC; New Port Richie, FL; East Brunswick, NJ; and Dallas, TX. The California classes are the only ones available simultaneously via Zoom. California will offer Mods 1 - 4, leading to certification as an NMR Therapist. You will find these classes described on the NeuroMuscular-Reprogramming.com website. Anyone interested in this most effective approach for structural and functional correction will find the NMR approach fascinating, quick to get amazing and long lasting results.

I hope to meet you soon in class. Sign up now for the California series starting Mar 7 - 9 or check out the other dates closer to your area.

Jocelyn Olivier, Founder and Director NeuroMuscular Reprogramming, the Missing Link in Rehabilitation

https://neuromuscular-reprogramming.com/

NMR is NeuroMuscular Reprogramming

02/09/2025

Shift into the fast lane with results and ease and fun!

Study NeuroMuscular Reprogramming this year! Mod 1 coming to Asheville April 4 - 6th. 18 CEUs.

02/02/2025