Advanced Remedial Massage/Myotherapy
What is advanced remedial massage/Myo therapy?
Myo therapists utilise a wide range of evidence-based treatment and skills, which in addition to manual therapy, assists with muscular pain and dysfunction. As primary health care providers, Myo therapists are skillfully trained to assist and aid in injury prevention, exercise/rehabilitation programing, musculoskeletal assessments, early intervention and treatment of pain and the ongoing management of chronic pain conditions.
What are the skill sets/treatment options that Myo therapist may use for patients?
Myo therapists utilise a wide range of evidence-based treatment and skills, which in addition to manual therapy, assists with muscular pain and dysfunction. As primary health care providers, Myo therapists are skillfully trained to assist and aid in injury prevention, exercise/rehabilitation programing, musculoskeletal assessments, early intervention and treatment of pain and the ongoing management of chronic pain conditions.
What are the skill sets/treatment options that Myo therapist may use for patients?
- Trigger point therapy - very specific muscle therapy to release hyperirritable nodules within the muscle.
- Spinal manual therapy.
- Nervous system assessment.
- Myofascial release - soft tissue therapy that helps regain full range of motion.
- Nerve mobilisation/ flossing.
- Joint mobilisation - realigning of skeletal dysfunctions including the spine.
- Dry needling - an evidence-based modality to treat muscular-skeletal pain.
- Electrotherapy - for motor control and chronic pain syndromes.
- Rehab exercise programing.
- Motor control training/ human movement training.
- Cupping - an ancient therapy that can be very effective in muscle treatment, promoting blood flow and tissue health.
- PNF stretching (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation stretching)
- Deep tissue therapy and therapeutic massage - massage techniques that involve treating muscle beyond the top layer.
Nervous System Assessment
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Your nervous system is ultra complex and is the greatest super computer on earth. While it is amazing and gives us the ability to achieve amazing feats it can also cause issues for us. Have you ever wondered why pain can last long after the injury has healed? This may not be due to wear and tear, pain can be recreated or left present by the nervous system. Often pain gates open or are easily excited thus allowing the pain to return even though there may not be anything physically wrong.
Have you tried every treatment with no results? Feeling worse after every treatment? Have chronic pain symptoms and over sensitive skin in places? Your nervous system is most likely at fault. It is possible to assess the nervous system and treat in a pain free manor. Here we do this by using techniques such as nerve tensioner tests, muscle testing, reflex testing, myotome testing and subjective testing. Can help with:
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Cupping Therapy
What is cupping?
Cupping is an ancient Chinese therapy where a cup is applied to the skin while the air pressure in the cup is reduced (by heat or suction). This causes the superficial muscles and Fascia to draw up into the cup. At times it is more beneficial to leave the cups in the one spot in order to treat specific muscles but in some cases cup gliding will be used which is involves gliding the cup back and forth on the effected body area.
What are the benefits of cupping.
Cupping is an ancient Chinese therapy where a cup is applied to the skin while the air pressure in the cup is reduced (by heat or suction). This causes the superficial muscles and Fascia to draw up into the cup. At times it is more beneficial to leave the cups in the one spot in order to treat specific muscles but in some cases cup gliding will be used which is involves gliding the cup back and forth on the effected body area.
What are the benefits of cupping.
- Increase in blood flow.
- Soft tissue manipulation.
- Joint function.
- Releasing hypertonic muscles.
- Muscular pain relief.
- Relaxation.
Dry Needling
What is dry needling?
Dry needling is an effective and safe treatment that entails the use of ultra-thin needles that are similar in size to the ones used in acupuncture. The therapist will assess you and find a hyper irritable muscle nodule (trigger point) within the muscle belly that is most likely to be causing your pain/stiffness. The therapist will then strategically and carefully glide the needle into the effected area which will often cause a muscle twitch thus creating the body's natural muscular release/healing response.
Dry needling is useful for:
Dry needling is an effective and safe treatment that entails the use of ultra-thin needles that are similar in size to the ones used in acupuncture. The therapist will assess you and find a hyper irritable muscle nodule (trigger point) within the muscle belly that is most likely to be causing your pain/stiffness. The therapist will then strategically and carefully glide the needle into the effected area which will often cause a muscle twitch thus creating the body's natural muscular release/healing response.
Dry needling is useful for:
- Increasing blood flow.
- Chronic muscle tension that resists manual therapy.
- Reducing fascial dysfunction.
- Deactivating trigger points.
- Reducing muscular pain.
- Increasing mobility.
- Reducing joint pain.
- Promoting the body's natural healing abilities
Spinal Manual Therapy
What is Spinal Manual therapy?
Spinal manual therapy is the assessment and treatment of the spine to help restore optimal health. The spine being the center of the nervous system has the ability to cause pain anywhere in the body. The cause of pain is not often where the pain is located. It is common for limb, hand or foot pain to be caused by spine disfunction.
Joint disfunction on a spinal level can cause debilitating pain, weakness, numbness and even lack of mobility. Spinal manual therapy can locate the segmental level that is causing the symptom/symptoms and help to restore optimal health.
Spinal manual therapy is useful for -
Spinal manual therapy is the assessment and treatment of the spine to help restore optimal health. The spine being the center of the nervous system has the ability to cause pain anywhere in the body. The cause of pain is not often where the pain is located. It is common for limb, hand or foot pain to be caused by spine disfunction.
Joint disfunction on a spinal level can cause debilitating pain, weakness, numbness and even lack of mobility. Spinal manual therapy can locate the segmental level that is causing the symptom/symptoms and help to restore optimal health.
Spinal manual therapy is useful for -
- Compression neuropathy (nerve impingement).
- Peripheral nerve sensitization (nerve pain).
- Lower back pain.
- Sciatic nerve pain.
- Numbness.
- Gaining mobility / joint function.
- Facet joint pain.
- Posture correction.
- Back pain.
- Limb pain.
Exercise Rehabilition
Rehabilitation is applied to restore function to the greatest degree in the shortest time, helping people return to their best with minimal risk of re-injury. Rest is very Rarely the best option when recovering from an injury and the science now backs this again and again.
Rehab exercises will help you gain strength, stability and connection while assisting in pain management. By doing this you can gain confidence in your body's ability to perform again and live a higher quality of life.
Rehab exercises will help you gain strength, stability and connection while assisting in pain management. By doing this you can gain confidence in your body's ability to perform again and live a higher quality of life.
Electro Therapies
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Electrotherapy machines can be used for many issues and in many different ways. Machines that are used within our practice are TENS and EMS which are Micro electric current machine.
Electrotherapy can be used to treat the following:
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