Nerve Flossing the Pain Away

Many times, patients come into therapy with symptoms of tightness in one limb or another, and the individual is usually blaming a tight muscle. Well, muscles aren’t always the culprit for pain or tightness. What if I told you that nerves are just as mobile as joints or muscles? What if I said that nerves can be injured like a joint or muscle can be injured? If you haven’t figured it out yet, spoiler alert…they can!

​Nerve flossing, or neurodynamics, is a treatment approach and concept used to improve pain, motion, and flexibility of a symptomatic extremity. A nerve must be able to slide or stretch along its pathway and adapt to load and compression. Mobilization of nerves has been shown to improve chemical communication across the nerve, as well as improve blood flow to the nerve.

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