Discovery and Abduction
Barrett L. Dorko, P.T. I first came across the idea of neural tension while at dinner with the late David Lamb, one of the original architects of manual therapy education in Canada. He asked me if I’d ever heard of the work of Alf Breig, a Swedish neurosurgeon who had written a book several years earlier about his experience using surgery to resolve neurogenic pain. Breig proposed that many chronically painful conditions were due to the presence of mechanical tension within the neural structures, not compression. As it turns out, he was right. This concept of dysfunction remains largely unknown…