Paul Roose Therapy

15/12/2025

We are now closed until Monday 19th January 2026.

If you would like to book an appointment on our return, please use the below link:

https://www.paulroosetherapy.co.uk/contact/

Merry Christmas to all our clients 🙏

Paul

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29/11/2025

Why Stress, Adrenals, and Emotions Show Up as Pain in the Body

Most people think pain only comes from injuries, bad posture, or “getting older.” But the truth is that your nervous system is the real boss of how your body feels.

When stress builds up — whether from work, family pressures, emotional overload, or simply being “on” all the time — the adrenals switch into protection mode. This pushes the body into a sympathetic state (fight–flight–freeze), tightening muscles, shortening breathing, and reducing blood flow to areas that should feel relaxed.
Over time, this creates neck tension, rib and mid-back tightness, lower-back clicking, jaw clenching, headaches, and even calf or foot stiffness.

Emotions play a huge role too. Your body stores emotional load the same way it stores physical stress. When you go through something overwhelming, unresolved, or simply cumulative over years, your nervous system often stays braced — even when the original threat is long gone.
This leads to a loop of adrenal fatigue, low vagal tone, inflammation, poor mitochondrial energy, and protective muscle patterns that keep the body in a “ready for danger” state.

The result? Aches, stiffness, fatigue, brain fog, and a feeling that your body is older than it is.

Simple Strategies to Reduce Stress and Calm the System

The good news: small daily practices can dramatically shift your physiology out of protection and back into healing.

🌿 Walking in nature resets the nervous system, lowers cortisol, and regulates breathing.
💛 More ‘me time’ and boundaries reduce emotional load and help your system feel safe.
🫁 Light-focused breathing activates the vagus nerve, releases neck and rib tension, and drops you out of fight-or-flight.
🏋️ Gentle exercise improves blood flow, boosts mitochondrial energy, and unwinds the bracing patterns stress creates.
💤 Rest and the nervous system downtime are essential for adrenal recovery and emotional stability.

These aren’t luxuries — they’re biological necessities.

How our therapies of AMN & P-DTR® Help Reset the Stress–Pain Loop

While lifestyle strategies calm the system, neurological therapies like AMN and P-DTR® address the deeper sensory glitches that keep the body stuck in pain.

🔹 P-DTR® works directly with the receptors and reflex loops that control muscle tone, posture, and pain. Stress, injuries, and emotional shock can leave behind “error signals” that make the body overreact. P-DTR clears these protective patterns so the nervous system feels safe again — often giving instant changes in mobility and tension.

🔹 AMN Therapy works with the brain, sensory system, and subtle energy fields, helping resolve deeper emotional, adrenal, and autonomic patterns. It recalibrates the areas of the brain and body that stay locked in stress, allowing muscles to relax, digestion to improve, and the whole system to shift out of survival mode.

Together, these therapies reset the body’s alarm system, calm the adrenals, switch inflammation off, and restore natural movement and ease. When your nervous system doesn’t feel threatened, the body stops creating pain.

If you want support unwinding long-standing tension, stress patterns, or unexplained aches, this is exactly what I help clients with every day.
Feel free to message me for available appointments.

https://www.paulroosetherapy.co.uk/contact/

28/11/2025

Your Body Isn’t Broken.
Your Nervous System Is Protecting You.
(And it never turned the alarm off.)

Why Pain & Tension Stick Around

Your body doesn’t stay in pain because something is damaged.

It stays in pain because your nervous system learned to protect you…and got stuck in survival mode.

Old injuries, surgeries, emotional stress, even small knocks can create sensory glitches that keep your system on high alert.

When the Alarm System Never Switches Off.

An overloaded adrenal system + low vagal tone can trap the body in fight–flight–freeze.

This looks like:
• Tight muscles
• Restricted movement
• Fatigue + wired energy
• Digestive stress
• Trouble relaxing
• Recurring pain

Your body keeps score of how life has affected you and this results in the above and more happening.

How Our Therapies Can Help.

Your Pain Isn’t Permanent.

Your nervous system just needs the right input to switch off protection mode.

For more insights on how the nervous system drives pain, tension & dysfunction or to book an appointment, contact us below:

https://www.paulroosetherapy.co.uk/contact/

27/11/2025

✨ The Left Shoulder That Wouldn’t Heal — Until We Asked the Body “Why?” ✨

For two years, a new client had been struggling with constant pain in her left shoulder.
She’d already seen three different therapists, but nothing made a lasting difference.

So where do you even start with a case like this?

You start by asking the body.

Not “Where does it hurt?”
…but “What is the most important thing to help calm the system right now?”

And the answers the body gave were fascinating 👇

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🔶 Session 1 — The Stomach, Self-Worth & the Left Shoulder

The first priority wasn’t the shoulder at all.
It was the stomach.

Neurologically, the stomach is linked to the left shoulder — but emotionally it also connects to themes like:
• Loss of self-worth
• Unhappiness
• “Attack against the heart”
• Stress & adrenal overload
• Self-devaluation

This made perfect sense once we explored her history:
• Anxiety
• Two stillborn babies
• A C-section scar
• Various dental procedures
• A fractured coccyx
• Donating a kidney
• A wrongful workplace allegation that caused depression and severe anxiety

Her system had been carrying a lot for many years.

We also found dysfunction in Cranial Nerve V (the trigeminal nerve), which helps with facial movement and sensation.
Her left shoulder was compensating for this nerve dysfunction—leading to pain.

👉 After the very first session, she reported a massive improvement in her symptoms.

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🔶 Session 2 — The Fractured Coccyx & the Left Shoulder Connection

Next, the body showed us that her old coccyx fracture was still active.

Even sitting was uncomfortable—and again, the left shoulder was compensating.

Using a blend of AMN Therapy and P-DTR, we cleared the dysfunctional receptors in the coccyx.

👉 Her feedback:
The only pain she now had was when lying on her left shoulder or driving.
A huge step forward.

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🔶 Session 3 — C-Section Scar, Emotional Imprints & Old Loss

In the third session, the priority shifted to her C-section scar and the surrounding fascia.

These tissues were holding emotional tension linked to:
• Anxiety around her third child
• The grief surrounding the loss of her two babies

We never try to erase memories — they matter.
But we can calm the physical and neurological impact they leave on the body.

Her left shoulder eased again.

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🔶 The Teeth–Stomach–Shoulder Connection

Finally, we found a link between:
• The back teeth
• The stomach
• The left shoulder

Her “stomach tooth” had been sensitive for years, and this overload was feeding straight into the shoulder’s stress circuit.

Using our specialised therapies, we desensitised the tooth and relaxed the entire chain.

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✨ The Result So Far

Our client is:
• Extremely happy with her progress
• Booking more sessions
• Already recommending friends and family

And her shoulder — once stuck for two years — is finally changing.

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✨ The Lesson: The Body Keeps the Score

Pain doesn’t always come from where you feel it.
Your body and mind are deeply connected, and sometimes the real cause is miles away from the symptom.

Scars, old injuries, stress, organs, emotions, dental work, trauma — the body stores it all.
And it will compensate until something finally says “enough”.

If you’ve been struggling with pain that hasn’t improved, no matter how many therapists you’ve seen…

👉 Your body might be trying to tell a deeper story.
I’d be happy to help you uncover it.

📩 Message me to book your session or ask any questions.
Your healing starts with understanding what your body is really asking for.

https://www.paulroosetherapy.co.uk/contact/

21/11/2025

Do you struggle with low energy levels, headaches, migraine, joint pain or inflammation, gut/stomach issues/leaky gut, constipation, diarrhea, brain fog, fatigue, stress, unexplained issues/illness, emotional or hormonal issues.

Maybe you have been seen by many doctors, therapists or practitioners and still struggling with the above symptoms and more.
The answer could be within you from a microbiome (gut) imbalance, sensitive to foods, inhaled or consumed certain chemicals or heavy metals or there is an hormonal imbalance.

Please watch the video and if you have any questions or would like to book an an appointment, contact us at:

https://www.paulroosetherapy.co.uk/contact/

or telephone: 01745 341781

20/11/2025

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🟩 The “Bosnia Effect”: When Old Trauma Shows Up as Knee & Neck Pain

Today I want to share a powerful reminder of how the body holds onto experiences long after the mind believes they are “in the past.”

A client came to see me recently with persistent right knee pain and ongoing neck tension. He’d tried stretching, strengthening, massage, heat, rest — nothing provided more than temporary relief.

What we uncovered in session was something much deeper.

🔹 The Body Remembers What the Mind Has Survived

Through neuro-somatic testing (AMN & P-DTR), his nervous system consistently pointed toward an old imprint from 1993, during his service in the armed forces in Bosnia.

This is what I often call the Bosnia Effect:
➡️ A survival imprint stored in the body from a time of extreme threat, uncertainty, and hypervigilance.

Even decades later, this imprint was still active in his nervous system.

🔹 How It Showed Up in His Body

The pattern we found involved:
• Right knee fascia locking into a protective stance
• Neck muscles bracing, as if scanning for danger
• Left cerebellum stress, impacting balance and tension regulation
• Palaeomesoderm “death/pleura” theme, the body’s deep survival reflex
• Bladder restlessness + autonomic overload, classic military-pattern hypervigilance
• Inflammatory markers (TNF / vagal imbalance) keeping the system stuck in “protect mode”

None of this was conscious.
But the body doesn’t forget.

🔹 Why Does This Happen?

When someone serves in an environment like Bosnia — unpredictable, dangerous, overwhelming — the nervous system adapts for survival:

✔ Stay on high alert
✔ Brace the muscles
✔ Hold tension in the neck
✔ Keep one leg ready to move, run, or stabilise
✔ Suppress emotions to get through the experience

These patterns are incredibly intelligent at the time.
But if they never switch off, they become pain, stiffness, inflammation, and fatigue years later.

🔹 What Happened in the Session?

Once we identified the survival imprint, we worked through:
• Cerebellar regulation
• Medulla/pons shock patterns
• Fascia release in the right knee
• Vagal activation
• Clearing the old “death/fear” somatic code linked to Bosnia

And suddenly the knee moved freely.
The neck softened.
The body finally shifted out of threat mode.

He said it felt like “a weight dropping off the system.”

🔹 The Takeaway

Pain is not always structural.
Sometimes the body is expressing a story it hasn’t been allowed to tell.

Military service, childhood stress, emotional trauma, surgery, loss — these experiences create deep neurological patterns that don’t just disappear with time.

When we work with the body’s stored survival responses, healing becomes possible in ways people never expect.

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If you or someone you know has unexplained, recurring pain — especially after high-stress or traumatic life events — the nervous system may be holding onto something it’s finally ready to let go of.

You don’t have to live in survival mode forever.
Your body can be taught to feel safe again.

https://www.paulroosetherapy.co.uk/contact/

20/11/2025

🔵 When Pain Isn’t About Pain: A Fascinating T4–T8 Case From the Clinic

One of the most common assumptions people make is that pain comes from the place you feel it.
But the body is far more interconnected — and today’s case is a perfect example of how symptoms can originate from somewhere completely unexpected.

🔹 The Symptoms

My client came in with:
• Pain through the T4–T8 area of the spine
• Weak mid and lower trapezius muscles on both sides
• A highly sensitive spleen (organ stress)
• Increased sensitivity in the spleen-related tongue and teeth zones

All of these pieces looked unrelated at first glance. But they weren’t.

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🔵 Why Tongue & Teeth Relate to the Spleen

In functional neurology and traditional organ-muscle mapping:
• The spleen shares neurological and fascial connections with specific regions of the tongue and teeth.
• When the spleen is overworking or stressed, these oral areas can become reactive, tender, or overly sensitive.
• It’s the body’s way of signalling deeper internal strain.

But why was the spleen overloaded?

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🔵 The Real Driver: Eye Movement Pathways

The real issue wasn’t the spine.
It wasn’t the muscles.
It wasn’t even the spleen.

The root cause sat within the Medial Longitudinal Fasciculus (MLF) — a key neurological pathway responsible for coordinating eye movements.

Specifically, it was linked to:
• Cranial Nerve VI (Abducens)
• Difficulty with left-side lateral eye movement

This dysfunction subtly disrupted the body’s balance, posture, and autonomic tone… which then fed into the spleen, the mid-back, and the muscles.

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🔵 The Emotional Layer: A Memory From Age 4

During assessment, we uncovered an important piece of the puzzle:

🔸 At 4 years old (44 years ago), the client had surgery on the left eye.
There was no remembered physical pain…
…but there was a deep, unprocessed terror around the surgery experience.

That emotional imprint had been living inside the nervous system for decades, still influencing reflexes, organ activation, and protective muscle patterns.

The body never forgets — until we help it release.

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🔵 The Treatment: Rewiring the Real Cause

Using P-DTR and AMN Therapy, we:

✔ Desensitised the old “terrified” emotional link
✔ Reset the dysfunctional Cranial Nerve VI pathway
✔ Normalised the MLF eye-movement circuitry

And then something remarkable happened:
• The spleen sensitivity dropped immediately
• The tongue/teeth reflex normalised
• The T4–T8 pain resolved
• The mid & lower traps switched back on — strong and functional

All without directly treating the back pain or the spleen.

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🔵 The Lesson: We Don’t Treat Symptoms — We Treat Causes

This case is the perfect reminder that:

🔹 Where you feel the problem is rarely where it originates.
🔹 Emotional memories can create long-term neurological compensation.
🔹 Eye movement pathways can influence posture, organ stress, and muscle strength.
🔹 When you correct the actual driver, the whole system resets.

Pain is rarely the enemy — it’s a messenger.

When we listen properly, the body tells us exactly where to look.

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If you’d like more posts like this or want to understand how your symptoms may be coming from deeper patterns, feel free to reach out to book an appointment:

https://www.paulroosetherapy.co.uk/contact/

13/11/2025

🔥 Client Story: The Real Cause of His Back Pain Wasn’t His Back…

A new client came to see me recently with constant lower-back pain and sharp flare-ups since January 2025.

He’d had a right hip replacement in 2018 and a hernia operation earlier this year. Both left behind scars — and those scars were already affecting the surrounding muscles.

During muscle testing, we found weakness in his bilateral psoas, gluteus maximus, abdominals, and Quadrants Lumborum- all key lower back core muscles.

Then he mentioned something important…

Back in January, he had slipped on the bathroom floor and hit his head on the washbasin.

When I asked him to place his hand on his head, every weak muscle instantly became strong.

A clear sign that the head impact was linked to his lower-back problem.

Using P-DTR and AMN therapy, we desensitised:

the impact of the headbang

the amygdala - area of brain associated with pain

the mesencephalon - area of brain associated with visual awareness

the scar on the back of his head

After treatment, all his muscles tested strong again.

By the end of the session, it also became clear that his hip replacement scar and hernia scar were contributing to the pattern.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be desensitising those scars — and I expect his back pain to reduce significantly, possibly even disappear.

Pain is rarely as simple as where it hurts.

The body remembers everything.

If you’ve been dealing with pain that doesn’t make sense, send me a message — these patterns are often very treatable.

👉 Have you ever had pain that seemed to come from nowhere?

Contact us to book an appointment:

https://www.paulroosetherapy.co.uk/contact/

28/10/2025

Have you a scar? Maybe this post will interest you!

Scars, regardless of how old they are or how well they appear to have healed on the surface, can have profound effects on the muscular system and central nervous system (CNS).

When tissue is damaged through injury or surgery, the body repairs it with collagen fibers that form scar tissue. Unlike healthy tissue, this scar tissue lacks the same elasticity, orientation, and sensory integration as the original fascia and muscle.
As a result, it can create tension or adhesions within the fascial network—restricting normal muscle glide, joint mobility, and even organ movement.

Over time, these mechanical restrictions can lead to altered muscle activation patterns, compensation, and chronic musculoskeletal pain as the body adapts to maintain function around the restriction.

Beyond the local effects, scars can also create significant neurological interference. The skin and fascia are densely innervated by sensory receptors that provide constant feedback to the CNS about position, movement, and safety.

A scar disrupts this sensory map, often creating areas of hyper- or hyposensitivity that the brain interprets as threat or dysfunction. This can result in abnormal protective muscle tone, faulty proprioception, or recurrent injuries in distant areas of the body as the nervous system tries to compensate.

Even scars decades old can continue to distort these neural patterns, maintaining a loop of altered movement, poor coordination, or persistent pain until the restriction is identified and reintegrated through appropriate manual or neuromodulatory therapy.

Treating your scar can help you on many levels.

To book an appointment:

https://www.paulroosetherapy.co.uk/contact/

28/10/2025

Case Study: The Long-Term Neuromuscular Impact of an Appendicitis Scar 53 Years Later

A new client came to the clinic feeling very weak and uncomfortable through his right leg. During muscle testing we found that the quadriceps, hamstrings, gluteus maximus, hip flexors, tensor fasciae latae, and several abdominal and lower-back muscles were all showing significant dysfunction and weakness.

The client told me he had an appendicitis surgery scar from when he was just 5 years old — over 53 years ago. When I asked him to place his hand on the scar, all of the previously weak muscles immediately strengthened. This clearly suggested that the scar had not been fully processed by the Central Nervous System and was still acting as a problematic “trigger” for the body.

Using P-DTR and AMN Therapy, we were able to identify and treat the neuro-fascial impact the scar was having throughout the chain of related muscles. By working with the amygdala, I asked the client to recall the experience of the surgery and the fear he felt as a 5-year-old child. Instantly, the muscle strength returned throughout the body. This was clear evidence that the emotional memory and neurological response to the trauma were still driving physical dysfunction decades later.

In the same treatment session, we addressed the digestive reflex associations that were also linked to the scar. The client immediately reported that his right leg felt noticeably better — and all the affected muscles were now strong.

In the second session, I plan to assess the rest of the muscular system because, even though the scar is 53 years old, it is highly likely that many additional dysfunctions have developed as a consequence over time. By continuing this approach, we aim to restore optimal neuromuscular function and long-term stability.

26/10/2025

35 Years of Neck Pain… Gone in One Week

My client came to me after three whiplash injuries and over 35 years of rugby head impacts. He was struggling with:

• Constant neck pain
• Very limited range of motion
• Left hand nerve pain
• Weakness + loss of grip strength
• Pins & needles sensations in the fingers

After a detailed neurological and movement assessment, I identified that the joint capsules between C2, C3 & C4 were sending faulty messages to the nervous system — a common long-term effect of trauma such as whiplash and repeated head impacts.

Through a combination of AMN Therapy (Applied Movement Neurology) and P-DTR (Proprioceptive-Deep Tendon Reflex), we very gently:

✅ Rebalanced ligament and joint capsule receptors
✅ Addressed dysfunctional nerve pathways
✅ Reset Golgi tendon organ/ligament signalling
✅ Restored healthy neck biomechanics

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✨ The Result — In Just One Week

The client reported:

• Best neck mobility in 35 years
• No more pins & needles
• Hand strength fully returned
• A feeling of relief he’d never thought possible

When we work with the nervous system, change can be fast… even after decades of chronic compensation.

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If you’ve been living with long-standing pain, restricted movement, or nerve symptoms — your nervous system may simply need the right input to reset.

📍 Paul Roose Therapy, St Asaph
📩 Send a message to book an appointment:

https://www.paulroosetherapy.co.uk/contact/

17/10/2025

Old Injuries Can Still Affect Us Decades Later

A new client came to see me with pain in his left hip and glute that had been bothering him for over six months. He also mentioned an old right knee injury from 1974, when he was blown up by an IED while serving in the armed forces.

When we tested his muscles, everything around the left hip was weak and painful — but the real cause turned out to be somewhere else. He’d had a cyst removed from his neck years ago, and the scar was still affecting his nervous system.

Using PDTR and AMN Therapy, we desensitised the scar and rebalanced his system. Within 24 hours, he noticed a big improvement in his walking and pain levels.

At his next session, another layer showed up — an old scar on his thoracic spine from another cyst removal. Again, once we treated it, all his muscles switched back on and strength returned immediately.

Finally, we worked on the old knee trauma from the explosion. Even a light tap on the knee made his whole body go weak — showing that his nervous system still held on to that trauma. Using PDTR and AMN emotional desensitisation (without needing to talk about the event), we released the stored emotional stress.

Now, his pain is almost gone and his movement has improved massively. We’ll continue working on the old compensations to help his body fully reset.

It’s incredible how the body can hold onto old injuries and emotions for decades — but equally amazing how it can heal when the right pathways are restored.

If you have a scar from a C-section, knee, shoulder or wrist surgery etc, it will be causing you problems. We can help to desensitise it.

If you would like an appointment or know someone who would, please use the below link to request an appointment:

https://www.paulroosetherapy.co.uk/contact/