Release Tension, Reduce Pain, and Restore Optimal Function with Expert Myofascial Techniques
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Running Analysis
Running analysis and injury rehabilitation can help runners of all levels achieve their goals and enjoy pain-free running for years to come! Grab a few sessions with our expert doctors to ensure you’re getting the most out of your favorite hobby and sport.
Running Analysis & Injury Rehabilitation
Running analysis and injury rehabilitation takes a comprehensive approach at our practice that helps runners prevent injuries, improve performance, and recover from existing injuries. It involves a detailed assessment of your running form, identifying any biomechanical weaknesses or imbalances that could contribute to pain or injury.
Symptoms & Conditions:
- Improper running form: Changes in your running form, such as overstriding, heel striking, or excessive knee valgus (knock knees).
- Muscle imbalances: Pain in the feet, ankles, knees, hips, or back while running or after a run.
- Inadequate footwear: Running in shoes that don’t provide proper support or cushioning for your foot type can contribute to injuries.
- Sudden changes in training: Increasing your mileage or intensity too quickly can put stress on your body and lead to overuse injuries.
- Biomechanical abnormalities: Certain anatomical factors can predispose you to certain types of running injuries.
Benefits:
The biomechanical abnormalities in how the patient runs are identified. Speed and steps per minute (cadence) are measured and run technique is closely reviewed in slow motion. This analysis helps pinpoint strengths and weaknesses and serves as the basis for a plan for a more efficient running style that can prevent injuries and result in pain free running.
Manual Therapy
By addressing the underlying causes of your pain and dysfunction, manual therapy can help you move better, feel better, and return to the activities you love. Let our hands address the restrictions and imbalances that contribute to your pain and dysfunction.
Manual Physical Therapy
Manual therapy is a hands-on approach to physical therapy that uses various techniques to improve your movement, reduce pain, and promote healing. Our therapists use their skilled hands to target specific tissues like muscles, joints, and fascia (connective tissue) to address restrictions and imbalances that contribute to pain and dysfunction.
Symptoms & Conditions:
- Muscle tension and knots: Stress, repetitive movements, and injuries can cause muscles to become tight and painful.
- Joint dysfunction: Restricted movement in a joint can lead to pain and stiffness.
- Postural imbalances: Poor posture can put stress on certain muscles and joints, leading to pain.
- Scar tissue: Scar tissue from injuries can limit mobility and flexibility.
- Arthritis: Having arthritis can cause a restricted range of motion and joint pain.
Benefits:
Manual therapy includes soft tissue mobilization, myofascial release techniques, spine and peripheral joint mobilization and manipulation techniques, manual traction, muscle energy techniques, cross friction massage, and neural tissue mobilization. Manual therapy can help manage pain and improve function.
Radial Pressure Wave
RPW therapy delivers targeted sound waves deep into the tissue. These waves stimulate cell activity, improve blood flow, and promote the body’s natural healing response. This can help reduce pain, improve flexibility, and accelerate healing in chronic conditions.
Radial Pressure Wave Therapy
Radial pressure wave therapy (RPW therapy) is a non-invasive treatment that uses high-energy sound waves to promote healing and pain relief in deep tissues. Imagine tiny oscillations stimulating your body’s natural healing response! This innovative therapy effectively targets chronic pain and inflammation in areas that may be difficult to reach with traditional methods.
Symptoms & Conditions:
- Overuse injuries: Repetitive strain on muscles, tendons, and ligaments can lead to chronic pain and inflammation.
- Trigger points: Tight knots in muscles can cause pain and dysfunction.
- Poor circulation: Limited blood flow can slow down healing and contribute to pain.
- Scar tissue: Scar tissue from past injuries can restrict movement and cause pain.
Benefits:
This therapy addresses difficult-to-reach pathologies. The therapy can improve a variety of musculoskeletal conditions and common pain points in the body, such as the neck, shoulder, elbow, knee, ankle, and foot.
- Non-invasive and painless for most patients
- Effective for treating chronic pain
- May reduce the need for medication
- Promotes faster healing
- Improves range of motion
Laser Therapy
If you’re looking for a non-invasive and drug-free way to manage pain and accelerate healing, laser therapy may be a good option for you.
Laser Therapy
Laser therapy is a safe and effective treatment that utilizes concentrated light energy to promote healing, reduce pain, and fight inflammation. The TheraTouch® LX2 laser we use at ClareMotion PT emits specific wavelengths of light that penetrate deep into tissues, stimulating cellular activity and accelerating your body’s natural healing process. Think of it as a gentle light bath for your injured tissues!
Symptoms & Conditions:
- Acute injuries
- Chronic pain conditions
- Post-surgical pain
- Reduced circulation
Benefits:
The laser has been shown to accelerate the healing process, and results include increased local blood circulation, acceleration of tissue healing (improve healing time), stimulation of the fibroblast cells, and increase collagen deposition.
- Safe and painless treatment
- Promotes faster healing of sprains, strains, and other injuries
- Reduces pain and inflammation from arthritis, tendonitis, and other chronic conditions
- Can help reduce pain and inflammation after surgery
- Can improve range of motion and improve blood flow to the treatment area, promoting healing
- May reduce the need for pain medication
Kinesiology Tape
If you’re looking for a drug-free and versatile approach to pain management, improved healing, and enhanced body awareness, kinesiology taping may be a great option for you.
Kinesiology Tape
Kinesiology taping is a dynamic taping technique that utilizes colorful, elastic tape to provide support and stability to injured muscles, joints, and tissues. Think of it as an external support system that works with your body’s natural healing process! Unlike traditional rigid athletic tape, kinesiology tape allows for full range of motion while offering pain relief, improved circulation, and enhanced proprioception (body awareness).
Symptoms & Conditions:
- Acute injuries
- Chronic pain conditions
- Post-surgical support
- Postural dysfunction
Benefits:
This method of taping helps with pain relief, reduction of swelling, acceleration of recovery from bruising, relief from muscle spasms, supports injured muscles and joints without restricting range of motion.
- Improves posture and movement patterns
- Improves circulation and reduces pain for sprains, strains, and other injuries
- Enhances proprioception and body awareness in conditions like arthritis or tendonitis
- Increases stability and support for injured tissues
- Helps to stabilize joints and tissues after surgery
- Improves range of motion without restriction
- Promotes faster healing and recovery
Graston Technique
Frustrated by lingering pain or a slow healing injury? Graston Technique® (GT) may be the key to unlocking your body’s natural healing potential. This innovative approach utilizes specialized instruments to target scar tissue and fascial restrictions, promoting faster recovery and improved function.
The Graston Technique®
The Graston Technique® (GT) is an innovative form of manual therapy that utilizes specially designed stainless steel instruments to target and break down scar tissue and fascial restrictions. Think of these instruments as an extension of the therapist’s hands, allowing them to reach deeper into tissues and promote healing in a more efficient way. GT is a powerful tool for treating a wide range of soft tissue conditions, whether they are recent injuries, chronic pain, or post-surgical issues.
Symptoms & Conditions:
- Scar tissue
- Muscle strains and tears
- Tendonitis
- Fascial restrictions
- Chronic pain
Benefits:
GT therapy is successful in effectively treating all soft tissue conditions, whether they are chronic, acute, or post- surgical. The unique technique enables the treatment of scar tissue and fascial restrictions during rehabilitation and allows for faster recovery with greater success when restoring range of motion, eliminating pain, and restoring normal function.
- Manages chronic pain from various musculoskeletal conditions
- Addresses tightness and restrictions in the fascia
- Reduces inflammation and pain associated with tendonitis
- Accelerates healing and improves function after muscle injuries
- Effectively breaks down scar tissue that can limit mobility and cause pain
Dry Needling
Dry needling can decrease pain symptoms, reduce muscle tension/tightness, restore muscle length, and increase range of motion. Unleash your tight muscles & reduce pain; ask about adding Dry Needling to your treatment!
Dry Needling
Dry needling is a targeted treatment approach that uses thin, sterile needles to deactivate trigger points – those tight, irritable knots in your muscles that can cause pain and dysfunction. Unlike acupuncture, dry needling focuses on specific trigger points to promote muscle relaxation, reduce pain, and improve range of motion. Think of it as a precise way to “reset” your muscles and get them functioning optimally again.
Symptoms & Conditions:
- Myofascial pain syndrome
- Chronic pain
- Muscle tension and tightness
- Headaches and migraines
- Joint pain
Benefits:
- Can help loosen tight muscles and improve flexibility
- Managing chronic pain from various musculoskeletal conditions
- Helpful for some people who experience tension headaches and migraines
- By addressing tight muscles that contribute to joint pain, dry needling can improve overall joint function
Custom Orthotics
Do you experience foot pain, discomfort, or abnormal gait? Custom orthotics, created through a comprehensive evaluation by our expert therapists, can provide personalized support to improve your alignment, reduce pain, and enhance your overall mobility and comfort.
Custom Orthotics
Custom orthotics are specially designed shoe inserts that provide support, improve alignment, and reduce stress on your feet, ankles, and legs. At ClareMotion PT, our therapists determine the best orthotics for your unique needs and biomechanics. Through a comprehensive evaluation, we assess your movement patterns and foot structure to choose custom orthotics that optimize your comfort, stability, and overall well-being. We generally use a total contact custom foot orthotic achieved by thermoforming (heat-molding) the device and fitting it to the patient’s foot.
Symptoms & Conditions:
- Plantar fasciitis
- Overpronation
- Arch pain
- Heel pain
- Postural dysfunction
Benefits:
As a total contact foot orthotic, orthotics provide the best possible neuromotor facilitation, improving balance and stability, and biomechanical control, enhancing posture and movement.
- Reduces pain and inflammation associated with plantar fasciitis, a common condition causing heel pain
- Provides extra support and corrects inward rolling of the feet during walking or running
- Helps distribute pressure more evenly across the foot, reducing arch pain
- Provides cushioning and increases shock absorption to alleviate heel pain from various causes
- Improves overall body alignment and posture
Cupping
Seeking natural pain relief and improved circulation? This technique can help loosen tight muscles, promote healing, and enhance your range of motion for a more relaxed and comfortable you.
Cupping Therapy
Cupping therapy is an ancient healing technique that uses specialized cups to create suction on your skin. These cups gently draw up underlying tissues, increasing blood flow to the area, called myofascial decompression. Improved circulation can promote healing, reduce muscle tension and pain, and enhance your range of motion. Think of cupping as a way to give your sore muscles a deep tissue massage and boost your body’s natural healing response!
Symptoms & Conditions:
- Muscle pain and tension
- Chronic pain
- Poor circulation
- Scar tissue
- Headaches and migraines
Benefits:
Cupping can improve mobility in the muscle and other soft tissue structures which can improve overall range of motion and help to restore proper movement patterns and function.
- Reduces pain and muscle tension
- Improves range of motion
- Enhances healing
- Increases relaxation
- Offers drug-free pain management