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Healing Soft Tissue Injuries With Soft Tissue Release Therapy

Healing Soft Tissue Injuries With Soft Tissue Release Therapy
May 26, 2017Dr. Grant RadermacherSports Chiropractic

The Science Behind Soft Tissue Release Techniques

The use of targeted massage treatment can significantly improve many soft tissue and nerve damage injuries. Whether you are a long-distance runner, or sit at a desk all day, soft tissue release therapy can help alleviate pain in problem areas. The soft-tissue system and movement-based massage technique we use at Ascent Chiropractic treats problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments fascia and nerves. A safe and effective alternative to steroid injections and surgery, soft tissue therapy can significantly shorten healing time for many common injuries.

What is it?

All common soft tissue conditions and injuries usually begin with overused muscles. Overused muscles can lead to the following:

  • Acute conditions (pulls, tears, collisions etc.)
  • Accumulation of small tears (micro-trauma)
  • Not getting enough oxygen (hypoxia)

As a result, your body can produce tough scar tissue that binds down other tissues that are designed to move freely. Once scar tissue is built up, muscles become shorter and weaker and if tendonitis develops, patients with entrapped nerves can experience reduced range of motion, tingling, numbness, pain and weakness. Soft tissue release treatment providers first use their hands to evaluate abnormal tissues and then combine precisely directed tension with very specific patient movement. With over 500 specific moves, the techinques we use at Ascent Chiropractic allow us to identify and correct the specific problems that are affecting each individual patient.

Who Can Benefit From Soft Tissue Releaze

Anyone who is experiencing pain due to a soft tissue injury can benefit from soft tissue release thereapy. Underlying causes and mechanisms of injuries can include a wide variety of scenarios, but the treatment of altered movement patterns remains the same. Restoring proper muscle function and movement allows the body to operate at the most efficient level when performing even the smallest task, such as walking across the room. Before turning to surgery or non-conservative treatment options, explore soft tissue release therapy and the benefits it can provide for your overall well-being.

How It Differs From Regular Massage

One of the biggest differentiators between what we do at Ascent Chiropractic and regular static massage is the involvement of the patient to perform specific actions. According to Active release technique: what you need to know, this movement makes particular sense for athletes, as the only way to reach the root of the underlying issue, is to apply treatment during the motions that cause it. Treatment involves shortening specific muscles and then lengthening them. For instance, to treat the calf muscle, a patient may be asked to push their foot down like they are pressing on a gas pedal, shortening the muscle. Then, while tension is applied, a patient would be directed to pull their foot up all the way, lengthening the muscle. During soft tissue release treatment, patient participation is an important part of targeting specific problem areas.

Soft tissue release therapy can usually resolve pain and restore proper muscle function from common injuries in a few visits. Combining traditional adjustment, soft-tissue techniques, and functional rehabilitation usually produces the best results.




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Kyle Reply
June 21, 2018

Great information. I haven’t heard of actual message while performing a specific movement. It sounds very interesting, and I wonder if this would help with plantar fasciitis or achilles tendonitis? Thanks for sharing.

Lucy Gibson Reply
June 28, 2018

My sister hurt her ankle from tripping on a curb during a run. You make a great point that anyone who suffers from soft tissue injury can benefit from an orthopedic specialist. I’ll have to suggest that she sees one to make sure everything is good.

Calvin Byron Reply
August 13, 2018

Soft Tissue Release Therapy is very effective technique to get rid of soft tissue injuries, being the massage therapist in Canada, I got very interesting piece of information after reading your blog. I will surely implement this strategy on my clients.
Thanks a lot.

Robert Chase Reply
December 5, 2018

good information for the home caring injured person. Such an informative post you share that give me a plenty of information about therapy. As my mom is a left arm injured, I thought this blog help to secure and practice therapy to remove pain.

Amy Milligan Reply
June 13, 2020

very well explained. thanks for sharing πŸ™‚

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