YOUR JOURNEY TO RECOVERY
At The Body Repair Shop, I believe in treating the root cause of a problem not just the symptoms. Therefore, I look at the body as a whole. I examine the body and how it moves, I test the nerves, muscles, and joints looking for the cause of your pain. My treatment programs are based on four phases of recovery. These are: Pain Relief, Recovery, Improvement, Prevention. The time taken to pass through each phase depends on how long you have had the problem(s), the severity of the problem(s), your age and health, and your commitment to treatment.
​Phase 1: Pain Relief. This is where I focus on pain relief. I establish the cause(s) of your pain and identify the nerves, muscles and joints that may have been directly affected and treatment is focused on relieve it pressure on the nerves, muscles and/or joints causing you pain.​​
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Phase 2: Recovery. Your pain should be relieved and may even have disappeared. But because your body has tried to compensate for them is functioning nerves, muscles and joints, neighboring structures will have been working harder and incorrectly. Therefore, treatment focuses on restoring normal function to those neighbouring structures that may have been distorted.
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Phase 3: Improvement. The focus is on improving the range and power of your movement so that you can increase the things you can do without risking injury. We work to re-educate underused nerves, muscles and joints so that they function as they should and we retrain the neighbouring overworked, compensating structures to focus solely on the tasks that they were built to perform. The aim is to have all elements of your nervous and muscular skeletal system functioning correctly. This will generate a feeling of “well being” as your body starts to function properly.
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Phase 4: Prevention. By now your treatment should have restored (to the extent your body will allow) all distorted nerves, muscles and joints to health and improved their function. The focus now is on maintaining the new you and preventing your nerves, muscles and joints sliding back to old habits which will allow old problems to re-emerge and new ones to occur.