Movement potential is encouraged through preventative healthcare, treatment and rehabilitation and both Physiotherapists and Chiropractors have been trained to identify the underlying problems of soft tissue injury and seek to rehabilitate through manipulation those suffering from these very painful and debilitating conditions. Manual therapy, together with therapeutic exercise in various forms are the core skills of their trade and, during their training both Physiotherapists and Chiropractors are trained to use different techniques, such as the active release technique, in order to rehabilitate different sets of muscle groups in order to promote soft tissue healing.

Soft Tissue Injuries

Soft tissue injury is all too common and, if you are suffering from one of the conditions involving damage to soft tissues, you are aware that the pain has to be experienced to be believed. Often these soft tissue injuries have been caused by you overusing your muscles which results in the well-known symptoms accompanying carpal tunnel syndrome and RSI; plantar fasciitis; sciatica and knee problems; shoulder pain and, amongst other conditions, the ubiquitous back pain which causes so many lost working hours every year. You probably know yourself that drugs are generally not the answer, despite them masking your pain and enabling you to continue with your daily tasks: believe it or not, this, in itself, exacerbates the problem - you continue to use your poor overused muscles far too much and you continue to suffer.

Why the Problem Persists

When you damage your soft tissues, usually by an accidental tear or pull to the tissue, an accumulation of minute tearing occurs to the tissues inside. However, as a result of this tearing, hypoxia can occur to the damaged tissue, where the tissue cells fail to obtain sufficient oxygen. As the body tries to heal itself naturally you will actually see inflammation occurring around the site of the injury. During this repair process tough, fibrotic tissue is laid down around your injury in a completely indiscriminate manner. It is this tough, fibrotic tissue that often continues to cause you pain and stiffness and limits your activities during your normal everyday activities.

As this dense scar tissue builds up and binds itself to your surround soft tissue you will find it prevents the surrounding tissue from being able to move as freely as it ought to. If more scar tissue is deposited your muscles will become shortened, losing some of their strength. This will produce too much tension on your tendons that are attached to these muscles. When the nerves that serve these damaged tissues become trapped, you will experience the symptoms of tendonitis. Apart from the pain you experience from these trapped nerves and damaged tissue, you find your range of movements is limited and your muscles aren’t as strong as they used to be. You may experience numbness, tingling and weakness, often accompanied by a slight burning sensation in your muscles.

How Can this Problem be Helped?

There is a way to help your soft tissues to heal themselves more effectively. It involves a therapy known as the Active Release Technique. This is an Active Release Technique that involves a series of more than 500 explicit movements. The unique protocols that Active Release therapy incorporates have been specially patented as the Active Release Technique. If you arrange to visit an Active Release provider, they will take a case history from you, evaluating each muscle, fascia, tendon, ligament and nerve to see whether they are tight, what kind of movement these soft tissues are able to do, and the texture of your soft tissues. This means that these Active Release providers can evaluate what is happening to your soft tissues by how the texture feels when they are touching it.

From this, a trained Active Release provider will be able to identify the abnormal tissue and locate the soft tissue injury that is causing you so much pain. Once your problem area has been located, specifically directed tension can be combined with the Active Release provider directing you to undertake very precise movements that can help rehabilitate your damaged tissues. Active Release therapy is most successful if you get help from an Active Release provider as soon as you can after the occurrence of the injury. The earlier mobilisation of the affected part occurs, the more likely you are to achieve a full range of motion again: inactivity is now known to prolong the process of healing.

Active Release Therapy Provides the Solution

During the course of their training and their subsequent clinical practice, Physiotherapists and Chiropractors both employ many different movement-based techniques that are designed to treat associated soft tissue injuries that involve muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and nerves, all of which are revealed in the pain we associate with back pain and headaches. One of these specific techniques is known as Active Release Technique, more commonly referred to as ART. Active release therapy is relatively new in the UK: however, in the USA, this active release technique has been practised for many years now.

Physiotherapists, on completion of their four-year training, need to be registered with their country’s regulatory body such as the Health Professions Council before they are eligible to practice. Similarly, Chiropractors, once they have completed their four-year training are required to be registered with their own regulatory body such as the General Chiropractor Council before they are allowed to practice. This is then followed by a further post-graduate year of training, after which [in the UK] they can become registered with the British Chiropractic Association and the McTimoney Chiropractic Association: other countries offer similar post-graduate registration.

Where Can You Get Help?

You can get highly specialised help from Active Release providers who have been specifically trained in soft tissue management to assess problems with your muscles, ligaments, tendons, fascia and nerves and then arrange a course of exercises that are recommended by the patented ART technique. There are as many as 35 places where nerves in the arm can become entrapped: ART providers have been trained to check each of these places and locate the place where the nerve is trapped. These exercises can help you by Active Release providers utilising combinations of the 500 treatment protocols to relieve the stress on the tissues surrounding your injury.

You may have tried different treatments and therapies and found none of them really worked. Perhaps you have already visited chiropractors and physiotherapists but nothing they recommended has fully resolved your problem. ART technique is totally safe, with practically no side effects. It is non-invasive and has a very good track record. You may find the ART technique treatments are rather uncomfortable as many of the movements are designed to break up adhesions and scar tissue. However, ART technique treatments come highly recommended: professional hockey player Gary Roberts and Donovan Bailey, the Canadian Olympic sprinter both suffered from repetitive strain injury and turned to Active Release therapy to assist in their healing - with huge success!

ART technique is a massage-based procedure, with more aggression attached! ART providers use their thumbs and fingers to move your tissues in such a way that your adhesion breaks away from your tissues. A normal session can last as long as an hour and a half. During that time you will notice that the aggressive manipulation using the ART technique on your damaged tissue, using the thumb and finger technique, will result in your adhesion ripping apart from its surrounding tissue. Following further sessions of ART therapy, which can be as many as six in some cases, many people are able to return to a fully active life, including activities they thought were history for them.

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