Manual therapy

What is

Manual therapy is a specialized method of chiropractic therapy that uses specific, manual techniques, without the aid of medical devices or instruments, to relieve tension, acute and chronic back pain.
Joints lacking range of motion due to musculoskeletal conditions can cause significant discomfort, frustration and inability to perform daily tasks. Manual therapy techniques involve restoring mobility and reducing tension, helping to correct biomechanical disorders affecting body position, blood circulation and muscle tone.

How to apply?

Often as a result of car accidents, ageing, sports injuries, congenital malformations, accidents at work or simply a vicious posture, many people suffer from back and neck pain or tension and experience debilitating discomfort.Treatment involves posture exercises, manual adjustment techniques, therapeutic massage, ozone injections and a proper nutrition programme. The therapist collaborates with the rehabilitation doctor, physiotherapist and masseur.
Mobilisation of soft tissues
Soft tissue mobilisation is often used to break up fibrous muscle tissue and relax muscle tension. For example, a therapist may perform soft tissue mobilization around scar tissue buildup resulting from a back injury. The technique itself consists of repeated stretching and pressure around the target muscle.
Mobilization of joints
Joint mobilisation is implemented to relax a restricted joint and increase range of motion.
Stringing-Relaxing
This technique corrects structural and postural problems that arise from abnormal neuromuscular reflexes. The technique is extremely gentle. Thus, therapists may prefer this technique to other procedures that are too painful to treat acute or delicate back problems.
Muscle Energy Techniques (METs)
MET uses voluntary muscle contraction against an opposing force to mobilise joints and lengthen shortened muscles. After a 3-5 second contraction, the therapist brings the joint to a higher level from where the patient performs a muscle contraction again. This can be repeated two or more times. The technique is considered an active procedure, as opposed to a passive procedure where the therapist does all the work (such as joint mobilisations). Muscle energy techniques are generally well tolerated by the patient and do not stress the joint.

What conditions does it treat?

The therapist’s goal is to reduce subluxations in order to increase mobility, decrease inflammation and improve function. In the spine, it realigns the vertebrae by adjusting the spine to relieve pressure on the spinal nerves. This therapy is successfully used for conditions such as lumbosciatica, herniated discs, spondylitis, arthritis, etc. When the vertebrae are out of alignment (displaced), they put pressure on the nerves. This is subluxation, which medically has been defined as “a partially abnormal separation of the articular surfaces of the joints”.

Benefits

The advantage of this approach is that we can apply personalised treatments to each patient, achieving:
    • improving tissue extensibility;
    • increased range of motion of the joint complex;
    • induction of muscle relaxation;
    • improved muscle function;
    • the reduction, removal of pain;
    • reducing soft tissue inflammation,
    • regaining mobility
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