What is Lyno Therapy?

The Lyno Method was founded by Benita Kropman, a Physiotherapist in the late 90’s. She noticed while treating her patients, they would come back a few months down the line with the same reoccurring injury. She then started looking at the whole body, not just the injury alone. Looking at which body parts move and which body parts don’t move and WHY don’t the not move?

Let's give you an example:

You have pain in your knee and go see a Lyno practitioner. You have sprained your ankle and did (R.I.C.E) Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevate but nothing more. Then you started walking/running and found that your knee started to pain. The brain kicks in, recognizing the previous injury (danger) and locked area and places another lock on the knee to handle the load compensating for the ankle and so it goes on, the brain trying to protect you while locking to maintain and handle certain positions you find yourself in. Then it becomes evident that the knee pain complaint was not the real problem, but once the ankle was treated the knee got better by itself.

In a Lyno session we don’t think about the problem, by testing the whole body and Range of motion, the analysis shows us the biggest layer of compensation to remove, once done we re test and ask for the next layer, we treat/release until all layers are removed to restore movement.

In a typical session, we will take the body through the range of movement (you actively move the body part while the practitioner uses tips of her fingers to scrape the skin to loosen the fascia and stimulate the superficial nerve ending s on the skin) to show the brain that the danger (old injury) is gone, the movement is safe and there is no need to protect anymore and then we get the release and movement back. It usually takes between 3 and 6 sessions, but it all depends how long you have been stuck and how many layers of compensation you have developed over the years – it’s like peeling an onion removing layer by layer.

If you would like to find out more about the Lyno method contact Vera Retief who is a qualified Lyno Therapist in Brackenfell. She believes in looking at the body holistically, caring for the whole person- Body, Mind and Spirit. This often involves multi-complimentary practices that can overlap and compliment each other, to ultimately getting a person to function without pain.