Tonight we're going to talk about how DCT is used for muscle re-patterning. I have a simple analogy I use called the computer analogy, where basically we look at the body, and we look at the muscular system, for example, as separate computer systems. What happens is, as we go through life and we get injured, it's like someone's going in and turning off each computer in each muscle. Every injury you have paralyzes the muscle, shuts down the connection of that muscle to your brain. So what's really neat about DCT is there's a neuromuscular re-education component to the work. So the first part of a DCT exercise is recruiting the muscle concentrically. So, we pick a muscle to target, so let's say we pick the psoas, the deep hip flexor muscle. We know that every muscle has three different actions, okay? The psoas, in particular, does hip flection, external rotation and adducts the leg towards your midline.
So, if we repeat those motions over and over and over again until somebody can feel a conscious burn in the psoas, it's like going and turning the computer in that muscle back on and reconnecting it to the brain. We don't even have to do the eccentric release work to get this muscle re-patterning effect on the body. In fact, a lot of times my patients here in the clinic, we resolve issues or problems that have gone on for years, just by doing the concentric muscle re-patterning work, by going muscle by muscle and making sure the computer's on, basically.
So that's a simple principle of DCT and something that we use as part of our protocol, as part of our real-time diagnostics protocol, every time we do a session. But it's nice to have it laid out there in an analogy for you that's simple to understand. So, thank you for listening and I hope to see you again soon at the next DCT Academy video.
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