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Neuromuscular Training & Why is it important?

Chris Ball - Thursday, February 23, 2017
Why your brain is the reason you need knee surgery! 




"The brain seems to forget
where the joints are and gets
lazy sending messages to
control the joint"

After an injury the picture becomes even more confused. The brain seems to forget where the joints are and gets lazy sending messages to control the joint. This is why you are more likely to have another injury after the first. For this reason training the brain to recognise joint position and to actively participate in joint control is so critical. It also explains why strength training can be quite effective in reducing injury in healthy populations (who have normal brain / motor control because they have not been injured). Strength training on its own is very poor for rehabilitation purposes. Neuromuscular control is the term that medical staffuse for the process of the brain controlling movement of the limbs. Optimal neuromuscular control is gained through training the brain with specific neuromuscular exercises. They must be done and practiced properly. Supervision will be required initially. They are critical to reducing secondary injury after an initial injury and provide promising results for preventing an initial injury from ever recurring. 

So when your physio, exercise therapist or coach has you doing these weird balance or landing exercises, you need to understand that they really doing you some good, even if it doesn’t feel like it at the time. 

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