What Happens When We Treat The Nervous System First
About this episode
This episode explores the importance of treating the nervous system in manual therapy with insights from educator Jenny Mapes.
Send us Fan Mail What if the biggest gains in manual therapy come from changing how we dose touch, not how hard we press? That question sits at the heart of this conversation with educator and former elite high jumper Jenny Mapes, who brings a coach’s eye to sports massage and recovery. We dig into her Quadrant of Intentional Treatment—a simple, visual framework that maps care across superficial to deep and global to specific—so you can choose inputs the nervous system is ready to accept and ...
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Host: Troy Lavigne
Guest: Jenny Mapes
Topics covered
- nervous system
- manual therapy
- sports massage
- recovery
- treatment framework
Keywords
- manual therapy
- nervous system
- touch dosage
- sports massage
- Quadrant of Intentional Treatment
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