The Thoracic Ring Approach is a way of examining and treating the ribcage (Thorax) in 3D, and part of the framework of ConnectTherapy. It is the most evidence based way of assessing your Thorax. Your practitioner will take time to map out each ‘Ring’ or functional spinal unit of the thorax and feel what your whole thorax does through movement. Treatment will include optimization of whichever aspects of your Thorax help to align the entirety of it and help you move and feel better.

Your Thorax is inherently flexible and uses specific neuromuscular control and muscle function for optimal functioning! Using The Thoracic Ring Approach, we aim to restore movement options and control because the thorax is greatly involved in whole body function, as well as influences and is influenced by emotions and beliefs  (neurophysiological). The thorax can ‘drive’ many different problems anywhere in the body, but not always! In each assessment, we can rule in or out the Thorax as a Driver.