Nothing happens until something moves – Albert Einstein

 

Amatsu is a natural and gentle movement based therapy that stimulates, strengthens and supports the whole body to restore balance. This is done without force by using effective soft tissue techniques that reshape the body back to its healthy pre-injury state. The body’s own healing mechanism can then do its work a lot more efficiently as it now operates from a stable musculo-skeletal structure.

Amatsu treatments can help with sports injuries, sprains, strains, back pain, shoulder problems, neck issues, sciatica, foot conditions, hip pain and many more.

Amatsu restores proprioception. Proprioception is a sensory system in the human body that is needed for optimum function and movement. It allows the brain to sense information on the basis of stimuli to skin, joints, and muscle receptors. It is essentially our sensing system to know where we are in space.

Improper alignment of the body places stress on the nervous system which in turn has a detrimental effect on the body’s healing potential. When communication to and from the brain is disturbed, movement is affected. So an injury can cause a vicious cycle – pain reduces movement, which reduces coordination, which reduces movement further and causes more pain, and so on.

This results in producing a physical form of nerve stress that adversely impacts the body’s healing potential. The stress hormone cortisol elevates when physical nerve stress creates a deficiency in proprioception. This disrupts brain signaling and therefore disturbs the body’s potential for healing.

Amatsu restores balance in the body by removing the adaption (misalignment due to injury, unfavourable postural habits, etc.) and allows the body to return to its healthy pre-injury state.