Joe Muscolino The Art and Science of Kinesiology

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Comment by Michelle Doyle, D.C., CNMT on December 9, 2009 at 9:10pm

Yes, Whitney, St. John mentioned in his seminar that no bone can move unless a muscle moves it and no muscle moves a bone unless a nerve impulse reaches it, so he was familiar with Nimmo's work. Nimmo's original work is still being taught by Dr. Sheila Laws, of Quincy, Illinois, one of his students who has taught Receptor-Tonus Technique since 1968. And your welcome Erik, I am happy to bring up Nimmo and I am glad he has influenced your work also.... he was a true pioneer.

Comment by Whitney Lowe on December 9, 2009 at 8:13pm

What about all those people who studied with St. John? Surely they must know that his work evolved out of what he learned from studying Nimmo...

Comment by Mitchell Carlin Schulman on December 9, 2009 at 7:47pm

Hi, Joe - Happy to join your group. There's always more to learn!

Comment by Joseph E. Muscolino on December 9, 2009 at 7:45pm

Hi Erik,

Very cool! You are the first person who is not a DC I have ever met who knows who Nimmo is!

Comment by Erik Dalton, Ph.D. on December 9, 2009 at 5:56pm

Hey Joe> There's lots of Nimmo fans out here. He lived down the street from my Aunt and Uncle in Ft. Worth in the late 70s. At that time, he was kinda of secretive about teaching his 'receptor-tonus techniques' due to harsh criticism from the broader chiropractic community (probably why he didn't publish). It's a shame his wonderful body of work went so underappreciated. I still teach his old "corkscrew" technique for splenius capitis/cervicus but Nimmo used the same hand position to do middle and posterior scalenes. Thanks for bringing him up...a true ledgend.

Comment by Choice Kinchen on December 9, 2009 at 3:22pm

Joe, your group is picking up steam and members....it seems to be very active....and with good reason.

Comment by Joseph E. Muscolino on December 9, 2009 at 3:15pm

It is so amazing how Nimmo is not known outside of the world of chiropractic, and Travell is famous. They both developed the same idea at the same time. Travell published; Nimmo didn't! As they say, "publish or die!"
Joe

Comment by Michelle Doyle, D.C., CNMT on December 9, 2009 at 3:00pm

Hi Joe,

I really enjoyed your article on TrPs. I found it very informative and the illustrations were excellent.

Our colleague, Raymomd Nimmo, D.C., once said (in response to criticism for practicing a soft tissue method in lieu of osseous manipulation), "is doctrine and dogma more important than freeing a forlorn brother of pain?" We should always keep our minds open to new ideas and methods for helping patients get and stay well.

Yours in Health,
Michelle

Comment by Joseph E. Muscolino on December 9, 2009 at 11:34am

Hi Steve,

Very good point. There can be many reasons for doing what we do. The "stillness"of a session can have value for other reasons beyond the ischemia/circulation of a TrP.

BTW, on the issue of neural control of a TrP, certainly there is sensory input from a TrP (it hurts, so we must be sensing it). Regarding the motor control, not that we cannot be adding to the perpetuation of the TrP by telling it to contract (pain-spasm-pain cycle, etc), but the motor control/input is not necessary. They have found myofascial TrPs that continue in rat muscle, even after the muscle has been entirely denervated. As long as the local tissue becomes ischemic (which usually does follow from an initial contraction that cuts off the muscle's own arterial circulation), the loss of ATP does not allow the cross-bridges to break and the Ca++ ions cannot be reabsorbed (this plays out in rigor mortis in a dead person's musculature), and the TrP perpetuates. Certainly, many factors can play into this, but it would seem that eliminating the ischemia would be job #1, if not one of many necessary factors.

Comment by Stephen Jeffrey on December 9, 2009 at 11:06am

Hi Eric, great article ! what with this, and many more revelations via Fascia Congress its getting harder to take all this in ! =" why we do what we do"

Hi Susan and joseph
I've really already covered my perpective of ishemic compression except to say its use marks a pivitol time in my session where movement stops and energy "reiki" work begins....stillness.

Respectfully yours steve

Hopefully more people will join this debate.

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