How Dr. Broshi’s Naprapathy Treatments Help Reduce Suffering
Naprapathy means “to correct the suffering”.
Naprapathy is a system of drug free therapy, employing manipulation of connective tissues (ligaments, muscles, and joints), to facilitate the recuperative and regenerative processes of the body.
The word “naprapathy” comes from the Czechoslovakian word “napravit,” which refers to the traditional Bohemian manual therapies that Oakley Smith studied. Napravit means “to correct” or “to fix.” Smith combined “napra” with “pathos,” the Greek word for suffering, or pain. Put together, naprapathy means “to correct the suffering.”
The History of the Field of Naprapathy
In 1907, Dr. Oakley Smith, a chiropractor who attended medical school at the University of Iowa, founded the field of Naprapathy. Through his chiropractic practice he discovered that the cause of pain and dysfunction in our muscles, nervous system, skeletal system and joints (the neuromusculoskeletal system) is primarily due to changes in the connective tissues and to tension in our soft tissues, rather than being due to subluxation in the skeletal structures. When there is subluxation, attending to these underlying support systems for the skeletal system, increases the effectiveness of our skeletal adjustments. Naprapathic medicine is based on this understanding.
HOw Does Naprapthic Treatment and Myofascial Release Work?
Fascia is a thin casing of connective tissue, mainly made of collagen. Fascia has a rope-like structure that provides strength and protection to many areas of the body, surrounding and supporting organs, blood vessels, bones, nerve fibers and muscles. Fascia tissue can hold a lot of tension and is very strong.
While fascia’s ability to do this is great in most cases, in situations where there has been injury, trauma, health issues and/or stress, fascia can become too tense, and can exert too much pressure on muscles, joints and other body parts, which can lead to undesirable pain, suffering, and ill health. Naprapathic treatment can soften, relax, release fascia, and this leads to the correction of suffering.
The Naprapathic doctor approaches each patient’s body as an interconnected, functional unit that has the capacity to self-heal and self-regulate. Myofascial release is one of the benefits of Naprapathic treatment. The goal is to restore the individual’s myofascial freedom so they can return to a pain-free, active lifestyle. With our holistic focus on the interconnectedness of the neuromusculoskeletal system, Naprapathic treatment is often remarkably efficient in supporting a patient’s graduation from a life hampered by pain and dysfunction.
