MyoPuncture

MyoPuncture™ & MyoPuncture Orthopedics™

A New Understanding and Treatment

of Heavy Motion Disorders and

Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

…One of people’s largest health problems is not only the terminal diseases that kill in short time, but the experience of the most unpleasant pathological phenomenon – pain…especially the kind of pain which becomes chronic and persists with years. The one that is difficult to be described by the patient and localized by the therapist, and doesn’t have any obvious physical signs of tissue damage or an ongoing inflammatory process…

This enigmatic and silent epidemic monster perplexed medical society for a long time, but thanks to the extensive worldwide clinical researches made on soft tissue rheumatism, fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndromes, today we know the cause of it: It’s the compression of peripheral nerves or their roots by musculoskeletal structures…

…In other words, musculoskeletal and nervous system structures are not supposed to mechanically interfere with each other anywhere in the body... Any direct contact between them causes disease… Most of the time these conflicts occur within the spine, meaning that the spinal cord and the 31 pairs of spinal nerves are in the base of almost all problems in the human motion system and that their potential decompression is the most important therapeutic action that should be performed. According to this discovery, disorders such as headaches, chronic back pain, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain have the same etiology and pathogenesis…

The International Myopuncture Academy is specialized in the management of heavy motion disorders and chronic musculoskeletal pain.

By collecting and sharing experimental and practical experience with medical schools and clinical practitioners all over the world, and combining ancient healing techniques and modern technology for over 25 years, the revolutionary new therapeutic methods were developed:

* MYOPUNCTURE™ is a modern diagnostic and therapeutic advanced dry-needling system where a fine long needle is inserted, with surgical precision and with help of a special injector, in the deepest muscular structures. In this way, by releasing their pathological contractions and shortenings, the practitioner decompresses the most delicate and well-protected spinal nerve structures and provides healing…

With the ability to reach and therapeutically influence the deepest structures in the body, MYOPUNCTURE™, with its efficiency, can be compared to operative surgery. This mini-invasive method produces major healing benefits without the negative collateral complications that follow all the time after surgical interventions – such as: scar tissue formation, potential risk of infections, long rehabilitation period, persisting pain and psychological stress.

MYOPUNCTURE™, by way of its development and application, consists of the following sub-methods:

1. Musculo-Periosteal Puncturing with Needle Injector – this is a method built up on the base of Japanese Acupuncture, Gunn Intramuscular Stimulation and Travell & Simons Myofascial Trigger Points Concept.

2. Hua Tuo Deep Spinal Acupuncture – the ancient 9 needles method combined with electric, laser or heat stimulation.

3. Modern Chinese Acupuncture Anesthesia – 2 to 4 needles, very intensive electro-acupuncture stimulation in some special points on the main meridians for provision of general and local anesthetic and analgesic effects.

4. Bio-Puncture – comprehensive knowledge in infiltration of bioactive substances (homeopathic products, local anesthetics, corticosteroids, vitamins, aloplants etc) in the affected paravertebral and peripheral muscles and in certain auricular points.

This is not mesotherapy, where the practitioner injects the product in the mesoderm. Here, the infiltration of the product goes in the deepest structures of the motion system with maximum precision and accuracy.

* MYOPUNCTURE ORTHOPEDICS™ is the second weapon in the arsenal of the

International Myopuncture Academy and represents a perfect union of a low-aggression joint manipulation system and comprehensive orthopedic massage.

The reason and necessity for the creation of this very advanced and effective manual method is that other systems such as Chiropractics, Osteopathy and Manual Therapy are deemed insufficient in their ability to deal with heavy motion disorders and chronic pain syndromes, not to mention the serious post-therapeutic injuries (and even “exitus letalis”) reported almost each year by North American Chiropractic Associations. This happens mostly because joint manipulation techniques are performed without sufficient muscular preparation. And because of stiffness and rigidity of the affected body regions, the therapist exerts much larger mechanical force than he/she is supposed to…leading to damage of blood vessels and the ligament apparatus and joint capsules, followed by hyper-mobility and further early degeneration (mainly the facet joints).

MYOPUNCTURE ORTHOPEDICS™ mostly follows after needle puncture applications which perfectly prepare and relax the affected muscle structures, allowing joint manipulations to be very gentle, precise and effective…

Many authors and practitioners consider MYOPUNCTURE ORTHOPEDICS™ to be the best in the tradition of manipulative medicine today and even call it the NEW AGE CHIROPRACTICS OF THE 21st CENTURY…

Something more about Pain...

…21st century – cosmic flights, genetic engineering, internet…

Significant technological progress indeed, yet human society is still far away from being able to cope with suffering and death… cancer, AIDS, cardiovascular failures… this is only one side of evil. The other side is not as dramatic, it doesn’t kill… it just tortures.

It is pain, the most violent and unpleasant pathological experience.

There are a lot of trials to counter it: modern pharmaceuticals, surgery, conventional and complementary physical therapies, bio-energetical and psychological applications.

A lot of attempts and poor results…

Medicine today is like modern politics – there is never consensus.

The patho-physiologists try to give a proper formulation and description by mixing mediators, hormones, complex neuro-biochemical reactions, but they are missing an important point… that pain is mainly a clinical problem and can be fully understood only by the patient’s bed.

The International Association for the Study of Pain describes it as:

“…an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described by the patient in terms of such damage…”

...This definition is not only difficult to “digest”, but with no practical value as well...

In fact the human body, with its remarkable ability to heal itself and the modern medical industry, quite successfully deals with two of the most common types of pain – nociception and inflammation.

But there is one third category that perplexes almost everybody. This type of pain, known also as neuropathic, occurs without any obvious cause. It has many faces and many names and unites various pathologic units in one large group: headaches, low back pain, whiplash, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, soft-tissue rheumatism, enthesopathies and many more. They all have the same etiology and pathogenesis – spinal nerve compression, poor bio-electric chain, shortened muscles, corrupted tendons and insertions…

Specialists are well informed about the magnitude and social importance of these silent epidemics, and many scientists across the world, for the last 60 years, tried to offer a solution. The first was Cyriax with his orthopedic approach, followed by Travell and Simons with their “myofascial trigger points” model. Then, in the mid 90s, Gunn brought his “intra-muscular stimulation” and represented once again the forgotten Cannon theory for denervation hypersensitivity and connected to this phenomenon, muscular and collagen degeneration.

Finally Dr. Chavdar Ninov and the International Myopuncture Academy, in collaboration with prominent clinicians such as Prof. Dr. Mark Martens, Prof. Dr. Claudio Manzini, Dr. Jeff Michielsen, Prof. Dr. Chan Gunn, Dr. Jacob Roosbroek, Dr. Charles Banta II etc… and after long experimentation in the field of sports traumatology and heavy motion disorders, offer to society a comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic strategy for chronic pain management. This includes MyoPuncture™ - a dry needling technique for deep structural improvement and MyoPuncture Orthopedics™ - a system for manual muscles management and joint manipulation.

The official results were astonishing – extensive statistics show a treatment success average of 83% with a large number of patients (more than 20.000 in 7 countries for a period of 10 years)…