Aaron Hartman, MD explains how massage and acupuncture work through anti-inflammatory effects and fascial release, breaking a harmful loop between organs, spine, and fascia. He describes his own whiplash injury and how intensive icing and trigger-point release prevented long-term damage.
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So it's really interesting. Now the mind body connection is real. So what you know, basic health things. What can you do? Well, massage, we've known it can help calm your nervous system down. Well now we have a biological plausibility. How massage is anti inflammatory which is interesting. Basic fascia work, different body works, whether it's fascial release, trigger point release, dry needling, acupuncture, cupping, a whole host of other things can be useful to help decrease this whole organ spinal cord fascial loop that unfortunately when it kicks in can be really really deleters. So let me go back to my story when I mentioned before I have my whiplash injury. Most people who when they get a significant and I was probably going 35, 40 miles an hour at a go kart when I had this injury, felt the issue in my neck. But because I knew to ice it like crazy, I went home, put ice on it, made my whole back go numb. The next day I was a little tight, but not that tight, kept on putting ice on it, felt the trigger points, release them.