ART is a patented, state of the art soft tissue system it is a movement based muscle therapy technique that treats issues with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and nerves. It is not just for sports injuries. Headaches, back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, shin splints, shoulder pain, sciatica, plantar fasciitis, knee problems, and tennis elbow are just a few of the many conditions that can be resolved swiftly and permanently with Active Release Technique. What do these conditions have in common? They are often a result of overused muscles.
How do conditions arise from overuse?
These overused soft tissues are altered in three important ways. One, they can be acute conditions such as pulls, tears, trauma, etc. Another way is that smaller injuries will accumulate over time, which is referred to as micro-trauma. Any of the above soft tissue irritations can result in the muscles getting enough oxygen, which is called hypoxia.
These factors can cause your body to produce "filler tissue", tough, dense scar tissue in the affected area. This scar tissue will bind up and adhere to tissues that need to move freely. As this scar tissue builds up, muscles may become shorter and weakened, and this may result in tension on tendons causing tendonitis, and the nerves can become entrapped. This often results in reduced range of motion, impaired motor function, and pain. If a nerve is entrapped you may experience a sensation of tingling, numbness, or pins and needles.
What sort of experience can I expect from an ART treatment?
An ART session is a "find it and fix it" experience, a combination of examination and treatment. The specialist uses their hands to evaluate the flexibility, the texture, tautness and movement of all the soft tissue: muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments and nerves. Affected tissues are treated with precisely applied pressure combined with specific patient movements.
With over 500 specific moves, these ART treatment protocols allow providers to identify and correct the specific problems that are affecting each individual and are geared uniquely to their specific problem.
Graston Technique® is an innovative, patented form of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization that enables clinicians to effectively break down scar tissue and fascial restrictions. The technique utilizes specially designed stainless steel instruments to specifically detect and effectively treat areas exhibiting soft tissue fibrosis or chronic inflammation.
Originally developed by athletes, Graston Technique® is an interdisciplinary treatment used by more than 9,000 clinicians worldwide—including physical and occupational therapists, hand therapists, chiropractors, and athletic trainers.
GT is utilized at some 830 outpatient facilities and industrial on-sites, by more than 160 professional and amateur sports organizations, and is part of the curriculum at 38 respected colleges and universities.
For the clinician
- Provides improved diagnostic treatment
- Detects major and minor fibrotic changes
- Reduces manual stress; provides hand and joint conservation
- Increases patient satisfaction by achieving notably better outcomes
- Expands business and revenue opportunities
For the patient:
- Decreases overall time of treatment
- Fosters faster rehabilitation/recovery
- Reduces need for anti-inflammatory medication
- Resolves chronic conditions thought to be permanent
For employers and the healthcare industry:
- Allows patients to remain on the job
- Reduces the need for splints, braces and job-site modifications
- Contributes to reduction of labor and healthcare costs, direct and indirect
| Six stainless steel instruments form the cornerstone of Graston Technique® |
The curvilinear edge of the patented Graston Technique®Instruments combines with their concave/convex shapes to mold the instruments to various contours of the body. This design allows for ease of treatment, minimal stress to the clinician's hands and maximum tissue penetration.
The Graston Technique® Instruments, much like a tuning fork, resonate in the clinician's hands allowing the clinician to isolate adhesions and restrictions, and treat them very precisely. Since the metal surface of the instruments does not compress as do the fat pads of the finger, deeper restrictions can be accessed and treated. When explaining the properties of the instruments, we often use the analogy of a stethoscope. Just as a stethoscope amplifies what the human ear can hear, so do the instruments increase significantly what the human hands can feel.
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Frequency Specific Microcurrent is an exciting new way of treating nerve and muscle pain and many other conditions using specific frequencies and micro amperage current.
There are hundreds of practitioners in the US, Australia and Canada using FSM to create miraculous changes in patients to reduce pain and improve health. Most of the time FSM produces immediate dramatic changes in tissue that make it an indispensable tool in treating pain and many other health concerns.
For example, there is one frequency that is only useful for shingles and herpes. In the shingles prodrome it eliminates the pain and prevents the blisters from breaking out. In herpes outbreaks it eliminates the pain and heals the blisters in hours with only a one hour treatment.
This frequency combination is only good for this purpose and is not useful for anything else. We have not found anyone it does not work on or any other condition for which it is useful. The frequency to reduce inflammation reduces inflammation in a blinded animal study more effectively than any drug ever tested in this animal model. No other frequency reduced inflammation at all. The frequency specific effect is remarkable and reproducible.
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