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ginger -> Re: Mobilisation of facet joints, the continuous method (August 21, 2006 2:25:00 PM)
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Rob and Nari , I haven't checked this thread for a while. To your question about the research Rob, I have many things in common with Nari's approach and understanding of the effects of spinal movement therapies. It is clear to me that the brain plays a significant role in the immediate effcts of Mobs. I contend there to be a local one , a reflexive effect also, where by local tissues provide feedback such that immediate change to muscle behaviour and sensation is mediated by both the flow of synovium to cartilage under oxygen debt. Also that nerves adjacent to these joints and intimate to the muscles themselves are localy at the effect of the tightness and irritations associated with hypertonicity. An immediate pain relieving effect is reliably produced with continuous mobs, further pain relief may occur over twenty four hours , suggestive of a metabolic change consistant with the dissipation of substrates associated with inflammation.
As Nari points out , it is nerves that feel not joints. It is the activity associated with both an inflammatory event and muscle hypertonicity that explains the commonly experienced distal pain and behaviour changes. These are interpreted by the brain of course and a picture of pain emerges. The introduction of chemicals into joints and immediate spaces will induce pain or relief to only those structures it comes into contact with . It could be that the complex nature of a spondyl and its interactions with nerves in the circumstances of hypertonic muscles and irritated nerves defines a nervous relationship that is not well mimiced by the introduction of chemistry. I can only assume so , as the every day benefits of mobs in my experience goes well beyond those proposed and or refuted by this study.
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