Continuing Education
Neurocentric Approach to Mechanical Pain - DNM in Vancouver, BC April 4-6, 2025
Neurocentric Approach to Mechanical Pain - DNM in Vancouver, BC April 4-6, 2025
It is a two-and-a-half-day workshop that will teach the philosophy, methods and techniques of DNM, which stands for Dermoneuromodulating. The course aims to help people understand pain and the nervous system and includes a hands-on, practical application.
Introducing DNM: Unlocking the Potential of Dermoneuromodulation.
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DNM: The Complete Integration of Philosophy, Method, and Techniques
We are excited to introduce DNM, Dermoneuromodulation, a groundbreaking approach that can revolutionize how you treat your clients. Led by the esteemed Michael Reoch, RMT, our course will take you through the philosophy, method, and techniques of DNM, empowering you to achieve remarkable outcomes for your clients.
Why DNM? Unleash Your Full Potential
DNM is not just another technique; it's a comprehensive system that allows you to go beyond the ordinary and create profound changes in your client's well-being. Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or a fresh face in the industry, DNM has something unique to offer:
1. Holistic Philosophy: By understanding the intricate connections between the person, the dermis, the nervous system, and the musculoskeletal system, DNM gives you a holistic perspective that can lead to lasting results.
2. Effective Method: DNM revolves around the concept of gentle, intentional touch. This helps you establish a deep connection with your clients and facilitates the body's natural healing mechanisms. It also ensures that each treatment is uniquely designed for your client's needs.
3. Incorporate your already established Techniques: From myofascial release to neural mobilization, positional release, and sensory integration, DNM equips you with a robust philosophy of care that you can apply to your favourite techniques. This allows you to address a wide range of conditions and deliver exceptional outcomes that resonate with your clients.
About Michael Reoch, RMT: You Instructor
Leading this transformative course is none other than Michael Reoch, an RMT with extensive experience in DNM. Michael's passion for teaching and commitment to excellence have made him a trusted name in the industry. His expertise and dedication will ensure you receive the highest quality education and guidance throughout the course.
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In the field of Manual Therapy, there are many techniques used to treat people in pain. These techniques involve pushing, pulling, and twisting skin and soft tissue. DNM uses techniques that change the state of the nervous system in the skin, spinal cord and brain to make it less painful and reactive.
Studies have demonstrated that touch has significant psychological and physiological impacts, with the nervous system regulating these effects. To effectively use Manual Therapy as a pain treatment, it's important to comprehend pain physiology through a social, biological, and psychological perspective. Research has indicated that establishing a non-threatening treatment environment for the patient is vital.
The skin is closely tied to the nervous system, which makes up around 2% of our body weight but uses 20% of our O2 and glucose at all times. Nerves do not respond well to sustained mechanical deformation, specifically compression and stretch. Dermoneuromodulating is a method that considers the nervous system of the patient to treat from "skin cell to sense of self." Techniques are usually light, and holds are slow.
DNM is a form of personalized manual care that targets nervous system signals to reduce discomfort and pain. This approach involves collaboration between therapist and patient to alleviate tenderness and improve well-being. Regardless of the damage in the affected area, DNM can effectively reduce pain.
The term DNM Stands for Dermo (skin), Neuro (nervous system) Modulation (a change from one state to another). It is a method of manual therapy/massage therapy used to change the state of the nervous system from a painful hyperactive state to a less painful and reactive one through receptors in the skin.
In Manual Therapy (MT), hundreds of techniques and methods attempt to approach treating people in pain. These maneuvers' speed, duration and force may differ, but the underlying mechanistic effects all follow the same rules. They can all agree that we push, pull and twist skin directly and soft tissue indirectly.
Lately, there has been considerable growth in research around the mechanisms of massage and other manual therapies, with a drift into the neuroscience involved in pain.
Two processes seem to be apparent when we look at the research:
First, the effects of touch have strong psychological and physiological effects.
The nervous system controls these effects.
If we use Manual Therapy as a treatment for pain resolution, we should look at understanding pain physiology within a social, biological and psychological framework.
What we know from studying the non-specific effects of physical medicine is that we should strive for a treatment environment that creates the least amount of threat to the person being treated; therefore, We should act, dress and keep the treatment space in a way that won’t put the patient on the defensive.
We know that we touch the skin primarily in manual therapy and that the skin is intimately tied into the nervous system embryologically as both arrive from the ectoderm.
We know that the Nervous System makes up around 2% of our body by weight but uses 20% of our O2 and Glucose at all times.
The nervous system carries impulses from the peripheral (and from within), which are processed in the spinal cord and Brain to create an output response. If the impulses are deemed dangerous enough, the output is pain.
We know that pain is a complex process that depends on contextual, psychological and biological factors that mostly happen without our conscious perception and that pain can’t happen without a nervous system.
The human body has 72 kilometres of nerves, intimately connected to the vascular system millimetre by millimetre.
Nerves do not respond well to sustained mechanical deformation, specifically, compression more than stretch.
Dermoneuromodulating is a method that attempts to take these facts as an underlying framework for an interactive, hands-on approach to treating the experience of pain. It considers the nervous system of the patient to treat from “skin cell to sense of self.” Techniques are usually light, and holds are slow. Limbs and trunk are positioned to affect deeper nerve structures in combination with skin stretch. This is done to potentially shorten and widen a nerve's container, thus reducing mechanical deformation of the nerve.
DNM is a method of manual care that puts the patient and their needs first. Instead of operating a recipe treatment, the treatment is an interaction between the patient and the therapist. The therapist and patient work together to find the areas that need attention and remove the tenderness and pain felt in that area. The focus is on changing the signalling within the nervous system to decrease discomfort. Pain does not happen in the muscles and other tissue but in the nervous system itself; therefore, whether or not the area of pain is damaged, we can reduce that pain with DNM.