Integrating neural mobility exercises into functional movements and clinical Pilates practice can have multiple benefits, regardless of whether a client is displaying neural mechanosensitivity: all tissues in the body need to move!

Key Points: Neurodynamics

• Mechanical and physiological events within the nervous system are dynamically interdependent.
• Neurodynamics (ND) is the term used to describe the integration of the morphology,
  biomechanics, and physiology of the nervous system." ¹⁰
  
• In neurodynamics, posture and multi-joint movements are combined to apply force to a nerve.
• Mobilisation triggers a range of responses in nervous tissues, including tension and pressure changes, and positive impacts on nervous impulses, axonal transport, viscoelasticity, microcirculation, and abnormal impulse-generating sites.
• Theoretically, neural mobilisation restores homeostasis in and around the nerve, dispersing intraneural oedema in the nerve root and axon, thereby decreasing...

Integrating neural mobility exercises into functional movements and clinical Pilates practice can have multiple benefits, regardless of whether a client is displaying neural mechanosensitivity: all tissues in the body need to move!

NEURODYNAMICS

• Mechanical and physiological events within the nervous system are dynamically interdependent. Functionally, that means that nerves have to be able to move in order to work optimally.
• Neurodynamics is essentially the dynamic movement of the peripheral nerves of the body, although clinically and in rehab, the term neurodynamics pertains to nervous system mobilization for neuropathic pain.
• In practice, when performing neurodynamic exercises, posture and multi-joint movements are combined to apply force to a nerve.

Mobilisation triggers a range of responses in nervous tissues, including tension and pressure changes, and positive impacts on nervous impulses, axonal transport, viscoelasticity, microcirculation, and abnormal...