This experiment uses the sensitive muscles of your neck to show how PRT works. You can tailor it to any area of the body, although you should not apply PRT to more than 5 pain-points in one day, to avoid overloading your adaptive capacity. Your mobility should improve in a matter of minutes, but it may take longer for pain to reduce. You may feel a little stiff or achy the next day, but this will soon pass.
1 Sitting in a chair, search for a place that is sensitive to pressure in the side of your neck, just behind your jaw, directly below your ear lobe. Press just hard enough to hurt a little, and grade this pain as a 10 (where 0 equals no pain).
2 While still pressing, bend your neck forward slowly. Keep deciding what the score is in the sensitive point.
3 As soon as the pain starts to ease, turn your head slowly toward the side where you feel the pain, until the pain drops some more. By fine-tuning your head position, you should get the score close to 0. Stay in this “position of ease” for about half a minute, then – very slowly – bring your head back up straight. The painful area should be less sensitive to pressure. If this really were a painful area, the pain would ease over the next day or so.
TOP TIP To ease discomfort in the chest owing to tight rib muscles, try applying PRT to tender points between the ribs in line with the nipple (for pain in the top four ribs), or between the ribs in line with the front of the armpit (for pain in the lower ribs).