Assists in the management of pain
The MLD technique stimulates touch receptors in the skin, which in turn travel along nerves via synapses to the brain. When a person is feeling pain, the pain receptors are firing signals along the nerves to the brain where it registers discomfort. In stimulating the touch receptors, MLD can assist in triggering an inhibitory nerve response to lessen the signals from the pain receptors. This can help reduce pain felt from a wide variety of causes, from rheumatoid arthritis to injury.