Nerve Entrapments

Do you have pain in the same location that isn’t getting better with stretching or strengthening? 

Does the pain travel in a line from one spot on your body to another? 

Does the pain fluctuate based on your activity or posture? 

If this sounds like your pain you likely have a nerve entrapment. 

What is a nerve entrapment? 

A nerve entrapment happens when a nerve becomes stuck to another tissue, usually a muscle, ligament, or tendon. 

Due to postural compensations, overuse, or injury certain areas in our body can become concentrically oriented which is a fancy way of saying ‘flexed all the time.’

This will lead to lack of blood flow, excess collagen build up around the nerve, leading to nerve entrapment. 

The most common spot we find nerve entrapments in the office are:

Back of the hip: Sciatic Nerve

Upper back: Accessory nerve

Low Back / Hip Crest: Cluneal Nerve 

Lateral Neck: Cervical Nerve Roots / Cervical Plexus

If you’ve watched our treatment videos for awhile this is often what we are treating. Applying specific tension to free up the nerve entrapment.

This is what allows patients to feel so much better after coming here. These these nerve entrapments haven’t been addressed with what they were trying previously. 

But it doesn’t end there. Once we have freed up a nerve entrapment there can still be postural compensations.

This is where our exercise rehab comes in to regain the loss of range of motion and prevent the nerve entrapment from coming back.