Functional Neuromuscular Therapy 101
Specialized Massage Therapy to Eliminate Pain and Retrain the Soft Tissues
FNMT in a nutshell
- Created by Neuro Physique’s founder, Kavic Merrill
- Combines neurolinguistic programming and specialized massage therapy to provide effective pain relief, improved mobility, and enhanced mental well-being.
- Addresses the root cause of your pain and retrains your body’s soft tissues so that you’re less likely to develop pain in the same spot in the future (or at least helps your body to respond more effectively to future impacts)
- Uses applied direct pressure to break up adhesions and retrain the soft tissue, much like a marathon runner trains for a race by going through the same motions again and again
- Teaches neurolinguistic programming techniques so that you think about and respond to future physical stimuli in more efficient ways
Does It Hurt?
This is probably one of the most common fears that comes up when you’re about to try any new therapy on your body (which, if you’re here, we’re guessing is already in some pain — or a lot of pain — as it is). Perhaps the real questions you have are 1) what can I expect to happen in my session, and 2) is it somehow going to be worse than what I’m already going through?
To answer the first, you should come to your first session (and any subsequent sessions) in loose-fitting garments. For men, that’s gym shorts and a loose t-shirt, and for women, it’s loose gym shorts, a t-shirt, and a sports bra. Unlike some massage therapies, you remain clothed here. If you need us to work on your shoulders/back, we may need you to remove your shirt, but we provide a cozy blanket to drape over any parts of your exposed skin that we’re not actively working on.
During the actual massage therapy portion, we apply careful pressure — often with our elbows, forearms, or specialized massage tools — to the tissues that we’re trying to retrain to relax and work more effectively for you. This pressure can often be uncomfortable — especially at first — but if it’s ever going to actual pain, let your therapist know, and they will lighten the pressure. Your therapist will work with you wherever you’re at and wherever you’re willing to go, and he or she definitely doesn’t want the session to be a negative experience in the slightest. As you come back for later sessions and your therapist reworks those same sections over and over again, you will notice that it’s no longer really uncomfortable at all, and it just feels more like you’re going in for a tuneup.
In the beginning, especially if you’re dealing with a lot of pain, we might recommend that you do several sessions closer together. Many clients experience profound relief after only 2-3 sessions, but if your injury or pain has been a little more ongoing, it might take as many as 5-7 sessions for you to feel like we’ve really gotten to the bottom of it.
After we’ve gone to the root of your pain and eliminated it and had a few sessions after to help retrain those muscles and tissues again, you might feel like you only need to come in once a month or once every 3-6 months to maintain.
If you ever have a question about our therapy or if you want to know if we’d be a good fit for your unique situation, we invite you to contact us at [email protected].
Ready to try it?
If you’re ready to get out of pain and see for yourself why we have hundreds of very satisfied clients, we invite you to a book a session today and get your (active) life back.
Client Testimonial
“My brother-in-law had a lifelong knee problem where if he went on a hike, he’d be out of commission the whole next day. When he told me Neuro Physique fixed that and his neck/shoulder issues after just a few visits, I knew exactly who to call when I threw my back out at the airport. I got full pain relief to my lower back and flexibility again in my hips after just two visits. Those two visits did more than months of physical therapy had done previously.
I later referred my close buddy who was plagued by 20+ years of shoulder pain due to an old injury. He’d get daily anxiety before his physically intense job just thinking about the pain he was about to endure.
He was so skeptical I just paid for the visit myself just to get him there. After 1 visit, his shoulder pain was gone for good…lol (its nuts). He called me right after and said the strangest thing was he could now feel old-pain in his right ankle and left wrist from lesser injuries he hadn’t felt in years because of the overwhelming shoulder pain. He later went back and got those fixed too.
I’ve never seen anything like what they do; but it works. They relax all the little crisscross muscles, make the pain go away and make the range of motion come back. I’m in my late 40’s and my life is way more active, my body way more flexible because I go in for maintenance to keep it that way. If you were looking for a life-hack, you just found it.”
Tarlton B, Google Review