Nasal Release Technique
Helping you breathe freely and recover from concussions
What is the Nasal Release Technique (NRT)?
Nasal Release Technique (NRT) is a series of treatments that may help with chronic headaches, migraines, jaw issues, facial pain, persistent symptoms of post concussion syndrome and traumatic brain injuries.
How your skull moves affects how well it pumps nutrients around your brain and spinal cord, how well it is able to clear out waste products while you sleep, and how well you are able to breathe through your nose.
Different accidents and injuries, particularly whiplash injuries and direct hits to the head can cause joints of your skull to stop moving properly.
The deepest bone of the skull, the sphenoid, attaches to all but 4 of the 22 bones of the skull. 5 of the 6 muscles that move our eyes and the muscles that closes our eyes attach to it. One of the major signs of concussion is the inability of the eyes to focus and move together smoothly. This impacts our ability to concentrate and focus.
Returning the sphenoid bone’s ability to move fully can really affect our ability to move our eyes freely, and to fully recover from accidents and injuries. Better movement of the skull bones also allows for better airflow through the nose and improves sinus and lymphatic drainage of the whole head.
Nasal Release Technique ( NRT ) uses specific positioning of the eyes head and jaw while a small balloon is blown up inside the nose at 4 different places on each side. It allows us to to free up tight joints between bones of the skull that are otherwise unreachable. This is then combined with sutural release techniques and lymphatic drainage massage. Eye exercises to strengthen the muscles attaching into the sphenoid bone are then performed to maximise the benefits of the releases. The results are cumulative.