This is a common and mild side effect. When myofibrils release you may feel momentary discomfort. The sensation varies with each individual. Patients have variously described the feeling as a pulling, tugging, burning, electrical or “weird” sensation. Others feel a heat release or a muscle twitch.

Muscle twitches, either observed or felt, are clear indications that muscle fibres are releasing. A twitch reaction is a good indicator that the treatment will have good results. The greater the twitch, the more fibres are being released.

Some patients experience a very brief radiation or an electrical signal to a limb or up and down the body. This is a positive reaction indicating release of fascial tissue associated with the treatment site.

This is a common and mild side effect. When myofibrils release you may feel momentary discomfort. The sensation varies with each individual. Patients have variously described the feeling as a pulling, tugging, burning, electrical or “weird” sensation. Others feel a heat release or a muscle twitch.

Muscle twitches, either observed or felt, are clear indications that muscle fibres are releasing. A twitch reaction is a good indicator that the treatment will have good results. The greater the twitch, the more fibres are being released.

Some patients experience a very brief radiation or an electrical signal to a limb or up and down the body. This is a positive reaction indicating release of fascial tissue associated with the treatment site.

Patients commonly experience a bruised feeling at the treatment sites. This sensation usually disappears within a day or two after treatment.

Patients who have a significant amount of muscle release may experience fatigue and need for a longer sleep following the first treatment. This is largely a phenomenon following the first treatment and doesn’t seem to occur after subsequent treatments.

New patients may want avoid driving immediately after their first treatment.

Sometimes as patients get pain relief in the treated areas, they experience a migration of pain to new areas. Pain migration generally reflects one of two positive treatment results.

1. Muscle fibres treated are released and pain is resolved at that specific site. Sometimes, the patient has other longstanding muscle fibres in sustained contraction which were subordinate to or eclipsed by the pain from the treated areas. When the dominant painful area is resolved, other muscles in sustained contraction become dominant and the patient feels pain in new areas. A follow-up treatment that addresses the new painful sites can resolve the issue of migrating pain.

2. Sometimes new pain results from a realignment of the interrelated muscular framework resulting from the newly relaxed muscles. The mechanism for this is unclear but may reflect disruption of the long established muscular interrelationships of shortened muscles that must readjust to a new relationship with functional muscles. Generally, patients find their bodies readjust and pain disappears within a few days.

Less commonly, individuals may experience short-term worsening or flare-up of pain following treatment which generally resolves within 24 hours. Please call the clinic for assessment if a pain flare-up lasts more than 24 hours. Your doctor may recommend an alternative treatment to relieve the pain.

This is more likely to result in someone who has had previous history of similar symptoms following immunization or visualizing blood. Fainting or loss of consciousness is rare. It is important to tell your physician immediately if you feel lightheaded, dizzy, nauseous or faint.