Manual Therapy

Manual physical therapy is a specialized form of physical therapy is a Skilled hand movement technique intended to improve tissue extensibility; increase range of motion of the joint complex; mobilize or manipulate soft tissues and joints; induce relaxation; change muscle function; modulate pain; and reduce soft tissue swelling, inflammation or movement restriction

Treatment may include:

  • Moving joints in specific directions
  • Muscle stretching
  • Passive movements of the affected body part

Techniques Includes:

  • Traction
  • Massage
  • Trigger Point Therapy
  • Active Release Techniques
  • Assisted Active Range of Motion
  • Passive Range of Motion
  • Lymph Drainage
  • Stretches (muscle, neural tissue, joints, fascia)
  • Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization
  • Joint Manipulation
  • Joint Mobilization

Benefits of Manual Therapy:

  • Modulate pain
  •  Increase joints mobility to stiff joints and range of motion
  • Improve tissue repair
  • Improving tissue stability and extensibility
  • Reduce soft-tissue inflammation
  • Reduce muscle tension
  • Induce relaxation
  • Facilitate movement and exercise therapy

Indications for manual therapy are:

  • Neck Pain: disc problems, muscle spasm
  •  Low Back Pain: spinal stenosis, disc pathology, facet joint impingement/hypomobility
  • Thoracic spine/Mid-back Pain
  • Tension headaches, migraines
  • TMJ Dysfunction
  •  Hip Pain: hip impingement, myofascial hip pain in the buttock or lateral hip, hip bursitis
  •  Knee Pain: Patellofemoral dysfunction, IT band tendonitis, post-surgical knees including total knee replacements
  •  Ankle Pain: ankle sprains, chronic ankle pain, ankle arthritis, post-surgical ankle pain
  •  Shoulder Pain: impingement syndrome, scapular dyskinesia, frozen shoulder/adhesive capsulitis, post-surgical shoulder
  • Fibromyalgia