Most all pain in the body is a result of hypertonic muscle spasms. Neuromuscular treatments are designed to release the body from hypertonic muscle spasms.
Hypertonic spasm is caused by loss of circulation creating an excess accumulation of lactic acid.
Lactic acid when trapped in the muscle hardens the core of the muscle. Since all muscles make contact with other muscles, spasms can travel throughout the body. This domino effect can be misleading since the pain associated with hypertonic spasm is not always felt where the spasm begins. Treating the area of pain may only produce temporary relief and sometimes, depending on the treatment, can complicate and worsen the problem Most muscle spasms can go without notice until the spastic muscle touches a nerve. Back pain, for example can start in the neck, travel down the illiocastalis, across the the quadratus lumborum, effecting the mutifidus muscle underneath the quadratus lumborum to the third vertebrae, which crosses a nerve in the low back.