NeuroKinetic Therapy® in Koh Samui

NeuroKinetic Therapy® was developed by David Weinstock, who has worked in manual therapy since 1973. It is built on a simple but powerful idea: the brain, not just the tissue, drives your movement patterns.

Your brain's motor control center learns and stores how you move. When a muscle gets injured, fatigued or inhibited, another muscle steps in to do its job. That's a compensation. It's a smart short-term survival strategy. The problem is that the brain can store that compensation as the new normal, long after the original injury has healed.

The overworking muscle becomes tight, sore and irritated. The underworking muscle stays switched off. Stretching, massaging or strengthening the area gives temporary relief, but the program running underneath hasn't changed, so the pain returns.

NKT® tests for those relationships directly and resets them.

Most treatment goes to where it hurts. NKT® goes to where the pattern is.

A classic example: a client comes in with a stiff, aching neck. Testing shows the deep neck flexors aren't firing, so the muscles at the back and side of the neck are doing double duty to hold the head up. Massage the neck and it relaxes for a day. Release the overworking muscle, reactivate the one that switched off, and give the brain a simple exercise to reinforce the new pattern, and the neck stops needing to guard.

The same logic applies to low back pain driven by a glute that has stopped working, knee pain driven by a lazy hip, and shoulder impingement driven by an inhibited stabilizer. The site of pain is rarely the site of the problem.

NKT® is used by physiotherapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, doctors, massage therapists, Pilates teachers and personal trainers worldwide, and it is one of the clearest tools available for answering the question every chronic pain client asks: why does this keep happening?

The educator

Jory Serota — International NeuroKinetic Therapy® Instructor

Jory Serota is the founder and director of Body Tune Up and has taught NeuroKinetic Therapy® internationally since 2014. He teaches all levels of NKT® and specialty certification courses around the world, and he created the NKT® Mobility & Assessment program.

He teaches throughout Asia and the Middle East, and his courses are attended by sports medicine doctors, physiotherapists, osteopaths, personal trainers and Pilates teachers. Over his career he has trained thousands of physiotherapists, doctors, yoga teachers and bodyworkers.

Before teaching, Jory spent six years on the professional tennis circuit, helping touring players stay on court and recover from injury. With more than 27 years in manual therapy and movement, he is also the founder of Applied Yoga® and the author of Applied Yoga for Musculoskeletal Pain™: Integrating Yoga, Physical Therapy, Strength and Spirituality.

The standard of NKT® at Body Tune Up is set by someone who teaches it to clinicians around the world.

NKT® across the Body Tune Up team

NKT® thinking runs through everything we do. Our physiotherapist, Tanny, has trained in NeuroKinetic Therapy® directly with Jory. She provides NKT® sessions and also uses NKT® testing inside her physiotherapy assessments, so the root-cause approach is part of your care even when your main treatment is physiotherapy.

Are you a physiotherapist, massage therapist, osteopath, chiropractor, trainer or movement professional? Jory teaches all levels of NeuroKinetic Therapy® and specialty courses internationally. Visit joryserota.com or neurokinetictherapy.com for upcoming course dates, or message us on WhatsApp.