So, what is ART?
ART soft tissue management system is so different that it has been granted a medical patent. An ART provider is trained to palpate and treat more than 300 muscular and other soft tissue injuries and over 100 nerve entrapments, which often cause numbness and tingling.
Muscles were designed to move a certain direction, often gliding over the top of another muscle. When an injury occurs, scar tissue forms like a spider web, fusing the two muscles together in spots. This causes the tightness, numbness, tingling and pain you may feel after an injury, whether traumatic or repetitive. When your injured muscles try to move as they were intended, they can’t move smoothly. And the friction caused by scar tissue causes inflammation and more scar tissue.
Think for a minute about two pieces of Scotch tape. When the two smooth sides are placed together, they easily glide over one another. However, when the sticky sides meet, the smooth motion stops—much like muscles entangled in scar tissue do.
What can ART effectively treat?
A lot of injuries! A few are:
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carpal tunnel syndrome
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golfer’s/tennis elbow
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iliotibal band syndrome
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plantar fasciitis
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sciatica
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shin splints
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sports injuries
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TMJ
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whiplash
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back pain
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shoulder injuries
In fact, most conditions involving soft tissue are successfully treated using ART!
Why is ART so successful?
The common thread in all of these ailments is that an injury has produced scar tissue, causing the muscles to stick together, or causing nerves to become entrapped. Why is ART so successful? To effectively treat a soft-tissue dysfunction, the practitioner must be able to feel the adhesed tissues and restrictions. ART is unique in that ART practitioners are taught methods for:
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feeling the location and direction of all restrictions
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feeling the breakdown of the adhesed tissues
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feeling the change in the soft-tissue as the nerves, tendons, ligaments and muscles translate and move easily across each other
ART practitioners also are trained to consider the body to be one complete, dynamic, functional unit. Therefore, they do not restrict their attention and treatment to just the area of complaint. Often times a nerve is entrapped away from the area of pain.
ART isn’t massage, myofascial release, random stretches or chiropractic care. It’s unique. It works. Try it!
Following treatment with ART, we teach our patients special "blueprint" exercises to help strengthen and correct their own unique problem. These exercises can be performed in the comfort of your own home and can improve the effectiveness of your spinal correction. In addition to skeletal misalignment, muscles and connective tissues can be out of place or strained by improper alignment and use. Specific exercises and stretches can help your body stay in balance and in health.
Lifestyle Advice
We often find it helpful to "coach" our patients on certain activities they should avoid or do differently to avoid aggravating their particular health challenge. Our goal is to help every patient achieve a fulfilling and happy lifestyle full of the activities they enjoy most. We recognize that each our patient is a whole person, and help them reach true health and wellness is a collaborate effort between our professionals and our patients.
Nutritional Counseling/Molecular Fitness
We advocate the teachings of Molecular Fitness. This program advocates a diet high in fruits, vegetables and good fats that lead to a more alkaline state in the body. Check it out at http://www.molecularfitness.com/!
MedX is a system of machines that measures and strengthens your lumbar and cervical spine. MedX has the well-deserved reputation of being the Gold Standard of treatment for reducing chronic back pain and dysfunction through specific spinal strengthening. Over the last 15 years the Universities of Florida and San Diego, along with various orthopaedic clinics around the nation, have published some of the most compelling research to date showing that specific spinal strengthening exercises, using the MedX Lumbar and Cervical Extension Machines, helps people get better even after multiple failed attempts at other forms of treatment.
Physical Therapy
Whether rehabing a shoulder, hip, or knee or learning specific exercises to help maintain the muscle balances obtained from ART treatments, our Physical Therapy department can help you lead a more pain-free life.
Graston Technique
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.
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