The Regeneration through movement & rhythm of muscles with Matrix Therapy
The first steps in Biomechanical Stimulation (BMS) Matrix Therapy Principles
The muscular microvibrations were proven for the first time as far back as 1943 by Austrian neurophysiologist, Rohracher. He put forward the theory that the naturally occurring microvibrations sustain the continuous excitation of the mechanoreceptors which in turn sends information to the cerebral cortex that signal body feelings and body image.
He also assumed that microvibrations were extremely important for the filter processes that take place within tissue and for the body’s metabolism. These now proven vibrations generate a vibratory process with a wide frequency spectrum at the tendons and muscles. This is also detectable when limbs are fully supported and at rest as a static or “rest” tremor.
Armed with a range of such basic knowledge Professor habil V. Nazarov in the 1960’s undertook the first experimental steps in the discovery of biomechanical stimulation for the purpose of legally achieving a performance improvement in high-performance sports. Absolutely new findings and approaches to the blood circulation system, to the nervous system and to the processes of growth, ageing and death served as the basis for the subsequent Nazarov Stimulation (BMS)®.
Origin of the term biomechanical stimulation (BMS)
The term was used officially for the very first time by Professor habil V. Nazarov in his book “Biomechanical Stimulation – Reality and Hope” (First published in 1986 with original print run of 70,000 copies). The first mentions of BMS were however made 5 years earlier in 1981.
Due to the unauthorised use of intellectual property the term must suffice to cover anything that is even remotely related to something that vibrates and wobbles. For this reason BMS was renamed Nazarov Stimulation (BMS)®, after its discoverer, registered and protected worldwide.
This makes it possible to recognise the original method today. A wide range of idealists and business people saw fit to copy something of this brilliant knowledge and the original stimulation and transform them into products that have nothing more to do with the orginal Nazarov Stimulation.
To-date, no one except Professor Nazarov has managed to develop a viable theory for biomechanical stimulation. He has therefore filled a huge gap in physiology theory that no one else had been able to achieve to-date. As a result of his new discoveries many theories could be viewed in a new light and much can be explained with the help of the new approach. Many gaps in our physiological knowledge developed into clear theories in this way.
Biomechanical stimulation: scientific facts and history.
Even at complete rest, alternating contractions of the proportionate muscle fibres is about 2 – 3% of muscle micro-vibration. Constant rhythmically alternating contractions are found in every muscle.
For example, if suffering from a cold. during weight lifting or experiencing a chill feeling prior to getting a fever, the micro vibration through our muscle contraction reacts at a higher frequency and amplitude with the tremor shown as a sign of activation in microcirculation system. Stimulation of the microcirculation in the Extra-Cellular Matrix space (ECM) is performed by the mechanical input and external stimulation between the venous and lymphatic capillaries. Because of the contraction along the muscle fibres, compression of the capillary leads to subsequent elastic restoration. The specific pressure and suction effect activates the microcirculation. Therefore, metabolic end products, toxins or cell decay products can be disposed of. These muscle-driven microcirculations also provide an intact and permeable rhythm to the ECM, ensuring the supply to all cells in the tissue. The biomechanical stimulation matrix therapy is now wildly practiced in physiotherapy and sports medicine.
Physical muscle tremor
| frequency | amplitude | |
| at rest | 8 – 12 Hz | 0,1 – 0,5 mm |
| during physical activity | up to 30 Hz | 1 – 5 mm |
The development of Bio-Mechanical Stimulation matrix therapy treatment is based on continuous clinical study together with scientific and academic research about the vital functions of the Extra-Cellular Matrix (ECM) and its relationship to the physiological rhythmic movement and vibrations of the human musculature.
What is biomechanical stimulation and Matrix Therapy?
The aim of biomechanical stimulation treatment is to restore the health and vitally of the muscles, fascia and tendons in the affected tissues.
The muscular rhythm can be imitated from outside the body through biomechanical stimulation (BMS) via Matrix Therapy applying the Rhythm along the longitudinal muscle fibres.
As is known of energetically open systems (Prigogine 1987), the natural frequency of a vibrational system (muscles) adjusts to the vibration of an external pathogen or assumes its rhythm.
The muscular rhythm can be imitated and stimulated externally by an appropriate vibration entry. This mechanical stimulation must be related to the biological vibration patterns of the muscles. A biological frequency window of 8 Hz to 30 Hz and an amplitude window of 0.1 to 5 mm must be adhered to.
The vibration input occurs in the longitudinal direction of the musculature. Physiotherapists work with biomechanical stimulation (BMS) to directly influence rhythm, microcirculation and metabolism – the physiological building blocks of regeneration.
BMS distinguishes itself from many therapeutic measures in physiotherapy which are based on the simple stimulus-reaction principle. It also differs from many conventional vibration applications which are often applied vertical to the musculature on the tissue and work with frequencies in a range far greater than the upper biological frequency limit of 30 Hz.
History of biomechanical stimulation therapy – Sport Science. In 1960, Professor Biermann from the University of Sport Science, Leipzig, Germany, researched and published the first biomechanical stimulation journal in relation to the human body.
Prof. Biermann In 1960 developed the first BMS device and applied it in sport science, to gymnasts, wrestlers and weightlifters in Eastern Germany during the DDR era. BMS devices increased an athlete’s performance, promoted regeneration and improved extensibility.
Later Prof. V. Nazarov from the USSR, further developed the BMS device and introduced the concept into sport medicine. Whereby in 1976/77, his first experimental devices for BMS were created and, thereafter, these methods were subject to over 20 years of the strictest secrecy. The BMS remained in the hands of the Eastern Bloc sports scientists who used BMS devices for performance enhancement, better regeneration and extensibility. In 1990, Prof. Nazarov introduced the BMS device to West German sport science.
Biography of Prof. V. Nazarov the father of biomechanical stimulation (BMS)
The inventor of biomechanical stimulation, Prof. habil. V. Nazarov, was born on 31st January 1936 in Belorussia.
1954–1959: University education in human anatomy and physiology
1960: Master of Sport in the USSR in apparatus gymnastics
1962–1982: University lecturer, instructor and professor at the Technical University of Riga
1968: Doctor of Sciences
1974: Prof. of Sciences (habilitation)
1976–1986: Professor at the Technical University of Riga
1976–1992: Chairman of the Scientific Council for Biomechanics at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
1982–1994: Dean, Chair of Biomechanics, Minsk Academy (Biomechanics was the most important Professorship of the Soviet Union)
Since completing his work on new biomechanics Prof. Nazarov was involved with research into muscle vibration. The first experimental apparatus for muscle stretching was constructed in 1976/77. Following this the method was kept top secret for over 20 years. It was only after the political changes that this incredible knowledge also became available in the West.
Siegfried Hofmann, a German sports scientist encountered the BMS concept during a sports event and developed and patented the first BMS device in West Germany.
In 1996, after several years of work, he also created and patented the highly effective and special form of the oscillating head (resonator) in the form of an Archimedean spiral.
The relevance and importance of the Archimedean spiral is because it produces different path speeds at the same angular velocity upon the skin surface. Due to these rolling moments, stretching is relatively proportional to deep tissue, such as the fascia, that is along the length of the fibres and simultaneously stimulates stretch-sensitive organs (the muscle spindle). By stimulating the Golgi tendon organ, muscles associated with α motor neurons are inhibited (self-inhibition = relaxation). This ensures that the tissue’s total receptors can retract and relax, including the proprioceptors (myosin, Golgi). Healthy organisms require calm movements within the body (vagal nerves), and full activation of the vibration range of active movement (sympathetic nerves). These specific harmonic wave forms from the resonator are introduced into the tissues along the course of the muscle fibres via the biomechanical stimulation.
The BMS Therapeutic Apparatus can generate these natural biological vibrations between 5-30Hz in the direction of uniform contraction/stretching of muscles, fascia and other soft tissues through its unique Archimedean spiral, which promotes the release of the extracellular matrix whilst softening the soft tissues. The metabolism can then activate the discharge of inflammatory factors, such as, lactic acid and other metabolic wastes which treats both the symptoms and root causes, and to fundamentally relieve pain. The mechanical stimulus introduced externally into the body via the machine must be consistent with the body’s natural biological vibration model of the muscles to bring about a positive and efficient treatment result.
To date, many and various names have been given to this BMS concept: Bio-Mechanical Stimulation Matrix Therapy, Bio-Mechanical muscle stimulation, Nazarov stimulation, neuromuscular stimulation, matrix rhythm therapy, ZRT, MRT, Matrix Therapy, to name a few.
Many doctors have conducted further clinical studies using this concept and have been very successful in its practical application by following the principles of Bio-Mechanical Stimulation Matrix Therapy.
We are grateful to the pioneering scholars like Pischinger and Hartmut Heine who laid the foundations for BMS and with their work on the regulation of the cell milieu system and the importance and function of the ECM making all this possible.
First published July 2006 in the Health tribune, Germany the series of Nazarov’s articles ran over Issues 102/6, 103/5, 104/11, 105/9 & 106/3 (Now re-branded as Fitness tribune)
Biomechanical stimulation, BMS for short. The reality. The origin. The physiology. In a multi-part series you will learn more about the original stimulation theory from its creator Professor Nazarov.
Facts about Biomechanical Stimulation [Part 1]
Facts about Biomechanical Stimulation [part 2]
Facts about Biomechanical Stimulation [part 3]
the way to promote active long-life? [Part 4]
Biomechanical stimulation of facial muscles [Part 5]
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The behaviour of blood circulation during Biomechanical Stimulation Matrix Therapy
The muscles are not only the motors that drive our outwardly visible movements, they are also responsible for internal movements within the body. Muscle power moves fluids around the body. Vessels both within and outside the muscles are squeezed through a process of mechanical deformation. When the muscles become flaccid again these vessels regain their previous shape, creating a sort of vacuum that sucks in new blood.
The most well known venous valves are found in the large leg veins that run outside the muscles. Backflow valve-like structures are also found however, in all venous sections of the blood vessels within the muscles – even inside capillaries.
These ensure that the flow of blood comes mainly from the nutrient and oxygen-rich side; approx. 70-80% of the body’s blood is to be found in the venous backflow. In 1974 it became possible to explain the purpose of the already well known permanent microvibrations of the muscles (physiological tremor). The primary supply of nutrients and oxygen is only made possible by these chaotic frequency and amplitude microvibrations in the muscles.
It has been proven that the heart itself is at least twenty-five times too weak to force the blood through the huge network of fine capillaries (which run to a total length of approx. 100,000 km). This provides an excellent explanation for the rise in blood pressure evident in people with a passive lifestyle. Older, passive, bedridden, paralysed people confined to wheelchairs therefore often have high blood pressure. The Nazarov Stimulation can also be used to regulate this evil, one of the most widespread diseases of modern society!
The consequences of increasing longitudinal vibration using Nazarov Stimulation (BMS)®, include an increased pump function of the muscles, which in turn means an improvement in the supply of nutrients and oxygen.
All organs that are directly connected to the circulatory system of a stimulated muscle also benefit from the improvement in blood circulation. This means that even passive organs can be targeted by this treatment. Over time, regular stimulation also has the effect of forming a more dense network of capillaries causing blood pressure to be distributed more evenly throughout the tissue.