EFFECTS & BENEFITS OF TRIGENICS®

THIS SECTION IS WRITTEN MAINLY FOR PATIENTS:

Back pain test before and after treatment
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Neurological Reset: Trigenics® has the effect of essentially "tricking" the brain into literally resetting the way it communicates with the body. Much like "resetting" a computer which is frozen or behaving badly. This effect is instantaneous and sustainable.

Pain relief: From a patient perspective, the experience of receiving a treatment will be quite remarkable. It is often hard for the patient to believe that they feel so much better so quickly when seemingly so little will appear to have been done. This is especially true in cases where the patient has been suffering for months or years and nothing else has given them any or as much relief. It is not uncommon for the patient to drop their jaw in amazement, after a 5-minute treatment, as they reach for their tennis elbow or frozen shoulder and realize that there is finally relief from their pain.

Patient with rotator cuff shoulder tendonitis
 before and after treatment
Before After

Immediate Muscle Strength Increase: Documented and clinically evident is how applications of Trigenics® instantly and significantly strengthens abnormally weak muscles. An “abnormal” weak muscle is found by conduction muscle strength tests and comparing sides. Affected muscles which are inhibited neurologically will be much weaker on the side of involvement when tested. Trigenics® myoneural treatment applied to a neurologically inhibited muscle will restore functional neurology and strength within seconds through a process referred to as “neuroplasticity.” A recent study showed that there was an average of about a 40% increase in muscle strength within one short treatment (2 minutes).
Clinical evidence has clearly indicated that only one Trigenics® treatment performed on a healthy muscle seems to optimize its function. For instance, in an informal trial of athletic performance using Trigenics® performance enhancement techniques, speed skaters treated with Trigenics® showed marked improvement in their lap times. (See Athletes.)

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Increased Movement And Range Of Motion: Patients invariably find themselves repetitively moving the joint or body part that has been restricted for so long as they realize that a significant amount of movement has been restored. All muscles traverse joints. Because Trigenics® effectively relax muscles holding the joints and because the joints are simultaneously being moved during the treatment, a great deal of lost motion is often restored.
Dramatic, immediate increases in range of motion are observed following Trigenics® treatments. It stands to reason that, if a Trigenics® treatment effectively dissipates contracture of the muscles holding and traversing the joint, the joint would experience more freedom in its mobility.

Euphoria / light-headedness: Immediately following a Trigenics® treatment, patients
frequently experience a trademark sense of euphoria and or light headedness; this is believed to be from the release of endorphins, the body's natural opiates that are released during a Trigenics® treatment.

Myoneural-emotional Response (MER): One of the responses, which can also be quite dramatic, is seen when a patient receiving treatment suddenly begins to cry or laugh. This is often quite overt and uncontrollable. When this occurs it is followed by a great sense of calm and overall relaxation. This response is extremely positive but the patient must be forewarned of the possibility prior to commencing treatment. It is believed that this response will occur when muscles that have stored negative emotions reflexively release and relax.


THIS SECTION IS WRITTEN MAINLY FOR DOCTORS AND THERAPISTS:

Restoration of sensorimotor control and function: This is the most important outcome as all other outcomes are secondary. Correction of dysafferentation and restoration of neural control and proprioceptive reflex activity is critical to full recovery. (see more on this in the Institute section for doctors and therapists

Increased Muscular Relaxation and Penetration: The degree of muscular relaxation and most especially, the speed in which it is accomplished is remarkable. This is due to the Trigenics® procedures causing rapid neurophysiological muscle release reflexes of the target muscle at the myopoint.

Patient with disk herniation
 before and after treatment

Decreased Pain: The Trigenics® patient does not experience nearly as much discomfort as one would normally experience when receiving deep tissue work. During application of Trigenics® to the involved area, nerve reflex pathways are also activated that inhibit the pain signals going to the area of involvement. This may be partially due to activation of the additional mechanoreceptors in the Pacinian Corpuscles located in the antagonist. Mechanoreceptor information arrives in the spinal cord before nociceptive information. The atypical interneurons constantly stimulated by mechanoreceptor activity, release met-enkephalin that inhibits the activity of the nociceptive afferents. This pre-synaptically creates inhibition of pain signals from reaching the higher brain centers. It is also believed that localized pressure with maintained resisted movement of the agonist may strongly activate the dorsal column system. This will further stimulate the endorphin producing hypothalamus, via prolonged bombardment of mechanoreceptor afferentation during movement. For this reason, the Trigenist is able to penetrate deeper into the tissues without causing pain and reflex spasm. Again, this enables the Practitioner to achieve a far more beneficial effect than with other traditional methods.

Patient with rotator cuff injury before and after treatment

Response Time: Of importance to busy Practitioners and patients, is that using Trigenics® enables the practitioner to very rapidly, if not almost instantaneously, provide significant long-lasting relief to patients with musculotendinous, arthromusculotendinous and neuromusculotendinous conditions. Most find the speed in which significant relief is achieved with Trigenics® to be unprecedented. (Treatments are usually 5 -15 minutes with relief of individualized specific points achieved within seconds.)

Adhesion and Fibrosis Reduction: Adhesions are found to rapidly dissipate within a few Trigenics® treatments. This is thought to be partially due to the effect of pressurized movement of the adhesion during the procedure, which mechanically breaks down the offensive tissue.

Anti-inflammatory: Trigenics® is also clinically effective in reducing musculotendinous inflammation. Unlike other manual therapies, Trigenics® can be applied in the immediate post injury phase. Clinically an immediate observable decrease in inflammation is noted following application. The observed anti-inflammatory response is suspected to be partially due to heavily sustained mechanoreceptor activation with resultant inhibition of the nociceptors, which are stimulated by the presence of muscle spasm byproducts (lactic acid) and inflammation (prostaglandins, histamine, bradykinin, etc.)

Stress Reduction and Accelerated Recovery: General Trigenics® treatments will leave many patients feeling very relaxed and free of stress. This is thought to be partially due to the cumulative effect of repeated Autogenic Breathing which focuses the "Chi" or "biomenergy" (body-mind meridian energy) to flow to the parts of the body that require it. In addition, the incorporation of target visualization in Autogenic Breathing, as part of the core treatment protocol for Trigenics®, is in keeping with current research supporting the mind-body connection. From a Western perspective, proper deep breathing with directed and focused thought can cause brain wave changes to occur putting the brain into a meditative state called "alpha."

Trigenics® Myoneural Reduction: The Trigenist maintains contact on the myopoint while following the muscular response and, as they facilitate a furthering of the response by subtly changing the direction of pressure, they will often notice a sudden giving way or change in the consistency of the muscle. Aptly described as "one second there, the next second gone", a popping feeling or sound may accompany this change in consistency. The patient typically experiences an immediate sense of relief in the area.

Mood Elevation and myoneural Emotional Response: One will also often find that Trigenics® will have the most pleasant effect of causing a trademark sense of well being, lightness, heightened awareness and euphoria. This is thought to be due to Trigenics® having an excitatory effect on the bodies endogenous opioids system via the release of endorphins. Stimulation of relevant acupuncture points can result in the release of endorphins, enkephalins and endorphins. Some patients also involuntarily experience a Trigenics® myoneural Emotional Response, as they find themselves suddenly uncontrollably giddy or in tears during or immediately following the treatment. This release is considered a positive outcome as patients invariably report feeling a tremendous sense of relief, relaxation and ability to sleep after the reaction has dissipated.

It is believed that because a Trigenics® treatment is applied to a neurologically facilitated muscle undergoing movement, the muscles optimum relaxation response is further being facilitated. This is because neurological stimulation occurs over a broad range of lengths. In other words the relaxatory effect of the treatment becomes cumulative as multiple treatments are being successively applied during each individual procedure. Ultimately, with the muscle in many different successive positions or lengths during application of a Trigenics® procedure, additional cross bridge binding potentials are instantaneously produced with an overall cumulative increase of vast muscle power.

The beneficial effect of instantaneous muscle strengthening has huge implications for the athletic community.
(See Athletes for more)

Leg strength before and after treatment

Muscle Lengthening: Adjunctive Trigenics® muscle lengthening techniques also utilizes the neurophysiological effect of the inverse myotatic reflex in conjunction with the addition of Proprioceptive Dynamic Acupressure. This adjunctive Trigenics® procedure is often performed following the initial procedure if the patient continues to experience some tightness or discomfort in chronically tight or fibrotic areas. It is very effective in completing the alleviation of partially persistent symptoms.

Trigenics® Joint Manipulation: A repeated observation, in providing spinal treatment to long-standing patients was that they did not require nearly as much adjusting following a Trigenics® treatment as they normally did without a Trigenics® treatment. It also became apparent that these patients did not elicit as much cavitation ("popping" noise) with spinal manipulation after they had received spinal Trigenics®. These observations are of significant importance, as Trigenics® seems to be increasing vertebral joint mobility when applied to fixated areas of the spine. In some cases, application of only Trigenics® to the spine created cavitation. As has already been stated, observations similar to those made of the spine have also been made in extremity joints.

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