#Nurses and #medicalstaff in #emergency wards and critical care areas as well all service providers in police, military, #firerescue, volunteer areas are subjected to high stress levels where maintaining health becomes difficult. They often dissociate their minds from their bodies to cope with fatigue and remain efficient during emergencies. After an emergency, #healthcare workers struggle to return their nervous system to a calm state, remaining in a sympathetic (adrenaline-driven) mode. This results in muscle contractions, poor posture, a heightened state of alertness, and diminished #proprioception. Usually, a poor diet and harmful habits are added, linked to different shift patterns and irregular meal times.
Non pharmacological treatments such as #decompressiontaping can assist in #rehabilitation, #musclecontraction, #pain and #edema reduction, relaxing #IBSand returning to a balanced state. #yoga, #Yogacharya
MAINTAINING HEALTH Professional Testimonial
The purpose of this article is to share my positive experience with NeuroMuscular Taping (NMT) treatment and to recommend it to yoga practitioners of all ages, as well as to those who work in critical care and emergency contexts, including healthcare professionals, police officers, firefighters, and military personnel. This recommendation is rooted in my personal lifestyle as a yoga practitioner for over three decades and as a skilled nurse specialising in critical care, clinical therapy, and holistic therapy for more than two decades.
Yoga practitioners are also known as “Yogacharya” (Sanskrit: योगाचार, IAST: Yogācāra), a term from the classical Sanatan Dharma tradition, which emphasises the practice, knowledge, and study of meditation and psychophysical techniques that enable living in balance or striving towards it on a daily basis, making it a second nature.
Properly utilised yoga techniques allow practitioners to experience higher states of awareness, contrasting with the ordinarily restless mind. Yoga practitioners, through proprioceptive feedback and afferent modulation, are particularly sensitive to the benefits of NeuroMuscular Taping when correctly applied to the skin. This taping decompresses muscles, fascia, and connective tissue, while stimulating blood circulation and fluid exchange in targeted areas requiring therapeutic intervention.
I had NeuroMuscular Taping applied to my right elbow for severe epicondylitis, as well as to my neck and lower back (lumbar area). I immediately felt that the taping created space, counteracting inflammation, edema and tissue entanglement. This resulted in pain relief and muscle relaxation.
In my lower back, NeuroMuscular Taping reduced pain and uncontrolled contraction in the psoas muscle. The iliopsoas is the most important skeletal muscle in the human body, as it “embraces” the spine and connects the upper and lower body. It is difficult to relax the psoas consciously in any yoga or meditation training, while stress and poor posture automatically cause persistent neuromuscular contraction. The application of NeuroMuscular Taping helped reduce pain and contractions, allowing me to experience a deep state of relaxation during my yoga sessions.
The NMT on my lower back stayed in place for eight days, while the NMT on my neck and elbow remained in position for three to four days each time.
During my third session of NMT with Dr. Blow, I asked for NMT specifically to address acute gastritis and spastic colitis exacerbated by overwhelming and exhausting work shifts. Six taping strips, 1,7cm wide, were placed in the epigastric area, over the stomach to the intestine area, and two wider taping strips were placed in the lumbar area of the spine. These proved to be an effective remedy, positively impacting the diaphragm muscle by allowing greater muscle excursion and more relaxed, deep breathing. My nervous system also benefited, particularly the vagus nerve, balancing intestinal activity while the NMT was in place. Intestinal peristalsis and osmosis were balanced, supporting metabolic activity.
My center of gravity became more stable, improving my balance and posture. NeuroMuscular Taping is suitable for treating a variety of widely spread conditions. I believe it can be recommended for all categories of people, including the elderly, bedridden patients in the post-surgical phase, individuals with chronic conditions, and even children and adolescents. From my perspective as a healthcare professional and promoter of health, NMT is an effective and non-invasive treatment.
Nurses and medical staff in emergency wards and critical care areas are subjected to high stress levels. They often dissociate their minds from their bodies to cope with fatigue and remain efficient during emergencies. After an emergency, healthcare workers struggle to return their nervous system to a calm state, remaining in a sympathetic (adrenaline-driven) mode. This results in muscle contractions, poor posture, a heightened state of alertness, and diminished proprioception. Usually, a poor diet and harmful habits are added, linked to different shift patterns and irregular meal times.
A nurse’s unhealthy lifestyle impacts the patients they care for. Due to mirror neuron interaction, patients internalise the nurse’s psychophysical discomfort. A healthy therapeutic alliance between patient and nurse is crucial for ensuring patient compliance, as the nurse is the most present figure at the bedside of the suffering person hospitalised.
From my personal experience, I strongly advise nurses to live as balanced and healthya life as possible, given our delicate and precious role in helping people on their therapeutic journey towards recovery (or disease management).
It is crucial to intervene at the onset of stress and musculoskeletal pain symptoms, treating them immediately. We must listen to any proprioceptive feedback indicating something is “not right” and maintain balance and well-being through regular and periodic NeuroMuscular Taping treatments for doctors, nurses, and healthcare personnel of all categories.
Roberta Mondaini. Nurse specialised in Critical Care, Genetic Metabolic Diseases, and Neonatal Screening, Rome, Italy.
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