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Journal of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Research | Volume 4

September 03-04, 2019 | London, UK

Spine and Spinal Disorders

International Conference on

J Neurol Neurorehabil Res, Volume 4

Indirect technique and elderly care: Applications in Manual Therapy

Minos Thomas Gordy

Spinal Unwinding, USA

here are a number of converging issues that will reach

crisis levels in the near future. The world’s population

is aging virtually every country in the world is experiencing

growth in the number and proportion of older persons in their

population. An aging populace also predetermines that an

accompanying issuewill be a lack of people to care for the old.

Meanwhile, automation in many industries is reducing the

overall number of jobs available. Alongside these issues

is the opioid crisis with its strong ties into spinal health.

For the old and elderly, spinal issues are the norm and

increase with age. Many current spinal treatments including

common surgeries simply do not work well with the elderly

and have a corresponding loss of effectiveness with age.

Currently, there are very few available alternative spinal

treatments for the old that retain their efficacy in application.

This paints a bleak picture of an aging future population

over-reliant on medication, and ultimately, costly surgical

interventions with high rates of failure. Indirect technique,

aka: “unwinding” is a gentle manual technique that is best

applied particularly and comprehensively to joint space,

particularly at the spine and ribcage. The focus on joint

space rather than soft tissue/muscle/fascial manipulation,

as is the norm in current manual therapy, makes the

technique much more suitable for the old and elderly.

“Indirect Technique” simply stated, means that rather than

pushing a bone into place, the space for it or the “path of

least resistance” is specifically created where the practitioner

intends for the bone to move. Performed in a comprehensive

fashion, this allows for gentle and gradual spinal manipulation

that ultimately may decompress neural pathways and

aid in the balance and flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF),

with its many positive implications on overall health.