Muscle Toning

This Universal Sound Therapy Protocol has been designed to help you improve your physical health and Muscle Toning.

Description

Are you or someone you love suffering from poor muscle toning and associated symptoms? At Universal Sound Therapy we deal with all sorts of issues including poor muscle toning with our sound therapies.

Our Muscle Toning sound therapy CD’s help by:

• Decrease and/or minimize occurrence lack of head control, decrease in strength, and poor reflexes
• Has the correct frequencies to help your body retune itself
• Aligns and opens your Chakra system
• Opens and cleans up your meridians
• Helps your body heal itself

Short Description of Poor Muscle Toning

Poor muscle toning or hypotonia is usually detected at birth or during the infancy period and depending on the underlying cause can appear at any age.

Symptoms of Poor Muscle Toning

• Lack of head control
• Delay in gross motor skills development
• Delay in fine motor skills development
• Decrease in muscle tone
• Decrease in strength
• Poor reflexes
• Hyperflexibility
• Speech issues
• Low activity endurance
• Poor posture

About Poor Muscle Toning

Healthy muscles are never relaxed as they always retain a certain amount of tension and stiffness (muscle tone) that can be appreciated as resistance to movement. Hypotonia is not equivalent to muscle weakness but it can be difficult to utilize the affected muscles.

For newborn and young children affected with severe poor muscle toning, they are often described like a “rag doll.”

Etiology of Poor Muscle Toning

Hypotonia or poor muscle toning is a symptom that can be part of different underlying health conditions. It may occur in cases of cerebral palsy, or after a serious infection like meningitis. Detailed causes include:

• Cerebral Palsy
• Brain and spinal cord injury including bleeding into the brain
• Serious infections
• Genetic and chromosomal abnormalities like Down’s syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome, Tay-Sachs Disease
• Hormonal and Metabolic Disorders such as congenital hypothyroidism and rickets
• Peripheral Motor Nerve Disorders including spinal muscular atrophy and Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
• Myasthenia gravis
• Muscular Dystrophy
• Connective Tissue Disorders like Marfan’s and Ehler’s-Danlos syndrome

Diagnosis of Poor Muscle Toning

If poor muscle toning is suspected, a referral to a specialist will be done. Laboratory tests may include:

1. CT Scan and MRI – To detect any nervous system abnormalities or damage.
2. EEG – The electroencephalogram records brain activity.
3. Electromyography or EMG – Electrical activity of a muscle is recorded using small needle electrodes.
4. Nerve conduction studies – nerve activity is measured using small metal disc electrodes.
5. Muscle Biopsy – A small sample of muscle tissue is taken and examined under a microscope.
6. Genetic Testing.

Types of Poor Muscle Toning (Hypotonia)

1. Central Hypotonia – Refers to decreased muscle tone that happens due to disrupted nerve signals in the brain and spinal cord.
2. Peripheral Hypotonia – Refers to decreased muscle toning that may happen because of nerve damage between the spinal cord and muscle.