Jones strain-counterstrain : mode d'action

Jones strain-counterstrain : une technique manuelle au service de la kinésithérapie.
«Approche explicative des fondements de la technique et de son application thérapeutique»

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Jones strain-counterstrain
ABSTRACT:
The constant evolution of science, pathologies and therapeutic visions, influenced physiotherapy which changed in the course of the years to the movement’s therapy, looking for the mobility’s restriction. Established by L.H. Jones, the "strain-counterstrain" is a functional technique with neuromuscular component which aims at restoring the movement.
It is defined by its inventor as a comfortable shortening muscle’s position, allowing inhibiting the sensory receptors in the neuromuscular spindle of the muscle involved in the restrictive phenomenon. It respects 5 basic principles, a precise methodology of treatment and requires a precise knowledge of anatomy and human biomechanics.
The Strain-Counterstrain is not the only technique justifying effectiveness by a gamma hyper excitability of the muscles but is different by proposing shortening muscular as a solution, not stretching.
The new emergence of the Jones’s technique in Europe doesn’t allow a consensus on this manual therapy, by a lack of scientific support. However, this atraumatique and infra painful approach put the patient and his disorders in the concerns of the practitioner’s center respecting physiotherapy’s practical rules.
Key words : strain-counterstrain, positioning, shorting muscle, spindle, movement.