If you have persistent pain after a surgical procedure, a major dental procedure, or an interventional pain procedure, you should consider this program to support your healing and recovery.
This treatment will be targeted to the area in pain, but Dr Nahas will also identify and treat several other areas creating tension, which are typically overlooked by most physicians. Using gentle palpation or light tough, he will identify these hidden lesions, using regenerative injections to target tension, inflammation and sensitive nerves.
The goal is to improve mobility and circulation, wound healing and tissue repair. You should expect to feel an immediate reduction in pain and stiffness, and this should speed up your rehabilitation and support the healing process.
Dr Nahas has developed a novel physical examination technique, which he uses as part of a therapy system called the Seekers Method. Using light touch, or palpation, he is able to precisely locate points on the skin which trigger the stress response in your nervous system. He may combine his palpation technique with ultrasound, to visualize and target deeper structures as needed.
Your treatment may also include acupuncture or acupressure, using the same palpation technique to find specific ear points that target disturbed pain circuits in the brain and spine. This unique, holistic approach will deliver immediate results, changing the way you feel and the way you move, supporting recovery and healing.
You will be encouraged to focus your awareness throughout the procedure, feeling what he feels, paying attention to the sensations created by the needle, and the immediate release that follows. Dr Nahas will deliver targeted manual therapy to the myofascial chains affected by your procedure. Combining movement and touch, breath and awareness, this will further release tension in sensitive or inflamed tissues. These exercises can be adapted to create a personalized regimen with your physiotherapy or rehabilitation provider.
How does it work?
Dr Nahas’s mission is to advance medicine by advocating for a paradigm shift in healthcare, which he calls blockage-based care. This is based on the idea that there are traces left behind after any trauma or injury. It presumes that these traces, which may include scars, can be inflamed, tight, numb, stiff or swollen, or they may be totally silent. These are the weak links in your anatomy, and the hot spots in your physiology. The hypothesis is that tissue tension, sensitised nerves and local inflammation in these areas contributes directly to chronic sympathetic activation, chronic inflammation, neurodegeneration and all of the chronic diseases of aging.
A two-year sabbatical spent backpacking in Asia and the Americas led him to recognize that blockages are treated by most indigenous healing systems in the world. It is hard to understand how scientific medicine could have overlooked such a simple and common-sense insight. The history of colonization, and the rift created by the Cold War, reveal how conflict and ego can be blockages to science and progress.
What to expect
If possible, you should schedule your first visit a few days before your procedure. This is followed by two more sessions after your procedure, typically a few weeks apart. If you suffer from significant chronic pain or other serious illnesses, or are undergoing a more complex surgical procedure, more extensive treatment is preferred, to ensure a more complete recovery.
We work with most insurance providers, but we do not accept Medicare. To find out more about a Procedure Enhancement Program, or to schedule a consultation with Dr Nahas, call (929) 575-7788 or email nycoffice@richardnahas.com.