Skin Impedance And Myometry (Enf And Myoton): Two Instruments Compared In Acute And Chronic Somatic Dysfunction

In rehabilitation medicine can be observed tissue alterations that go to join in specific disease states, and may be the first signal to decode a dysfunctional state and program the rehabilitation protocol. Somatic dysfunction present alternations of tone and tissue quality, the perception of pain at specific points during the evaluation, anatomical asymmetries and reductions in the ROM. The purpose of this study was to compare in a single-bind dysfunctional areas previously identified with a clinical functional assessment studied through the use of two different devices: the ENF, an impedance evaluation system that measures the rheological skin values and the Myoton, which measures the elasticity, deformability and the tone of the tissue district with a scientifically validated system. The results were able to show all the typical neurophysiological characteristics related to somatic dysfunction, considering concepts such as facilitation, neurogenic inflammation, up to the concept of allostatic overload, the final result of the stress accumulated sum and daily dysfunction during various activities of everyday life.