Can Muscle Release Technique Help Reduce Your Pain?

An Overview of Traditional Pain Relief Treatments Versus Muscle Release Technique

Many individuals suffer from one form of pain or another. When this pain begins to worsen and become more frequent in attacks or progress to a chronic pain condition, this can have disastrous results for the suffering party.

While there are some different and newer types of pain control measures, most end up having to take strong narcotic pain relief drugs that come with their own set of side effects and other unwanted complications.

Fortunately, medical doctors, acupuncturists, healthcare providers, alternative medical professionals and chiropractors have since developed less invasive and simpler treatments for pain in recent years.

Chiropractors use muscle-release techniques for a wide variety of ailments.

How Chiropractors Are Revolutionizing Pain Management Using a Precise Manual Adjustment

Some highly trained chiropractors are skilled with a revolutionary type of pain reduction treatment that does more than just relieve the current acute pain, it also targets any of the potential underlying problems as well. This procedure treats the real culprit in a manner that can transform and break the pain cycle once and for all in many instances.

This treatment is termed muscle release techniques, and chiropractors have been seeing impressive results in their patients. This manual technique resembles a similar therapy known as active release technique, or ART, but manages to be more focal and specific treatment choice. It targets a smaller area with precise and determined hand pressure tactics. This is done along with subtle, yet incredibly streamlined and gentle, stretching movements to achieve a higher level of success in most cases.

Patients See Greater Pain Relief & Ongoing Improvement of the Deeper Underlying Problem

What all this means is that many patients are finding true pain relief that often is evident right away. Typically, several sets of sessions working on the problematic soft tissue and muscle groups worked repeatedly over time will gain much better control and management of the discomfort and other symptoms. The treatment may even resolve discomforts due to the underlying adhesion bands that attach fibrous muscle tissue together causing the unwanted symptoms.

What Causes Painful Musculoskeletal Dysfunction?

When someone must continue to use certain muscle groups in repetitive movements, like what factory or construction workers may do on a daily basis, that ongoing strain on those involved muscles eventually takes a toll.

The overused and excessively stretched soft tissue and muscle tissue become weakened and start to develop increased tension of the muscles that worsens with every cycle of the repetitive motion.

The human body reacts to this pressure and tension by breaking down tissue and forming adhesions that will grow and knit the problematic tissues together, all wrapped up tight with ropey threads, into a tangled mess. When this problem becomes large enough, a knot is often formed that can be felt when expertly palpated.

Types of Health Problems That Can be Treated with Muscle Release Technique

Many health conditions, such as migraines, may be helped with muscle release technique sessions that include:

• Migraine or other tension headaches
• Low back pain
• An aching neck often chronic in nature
• Sports injuries
• Injuries caused by falls or accidents with trauma
• Sciatica
• Carpel tunnel syndrome
• Frozen shoulder or other shoulder issues
• Tennis elbow
• Bursitis
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Venous insufficiency in lower legs

How Does This Manual Therapeutic Technique Work on Deep Muscle Scar Bands?

When there is some type of trauma to the muscle and surrounding soft tissues, like tendons, ligaments and nerves, adhesions develop and begin to stick together. Over time, those damaged tissues break down more causing scar tissue to form.

When Scar tissue is retraumatized, with mini-traumatic events or bigger assaults, the damaged muscle fibers become wider and begin to form hard knots and bulges of thickened tissue bands within the muscle.

This results in serious pain, and the scarring begins to impede normal function of those taut and overused muscles and other tissues. This situation usually causes a wealth of various mobility limitations that can cause unwanted lifestyle changes and decrease a patient’s overall quality of life.

The Purpose of MRT Explained

Where ART seeks to treat an entire structure of problematic tissue damage, MRT or MAR, manual adhesion release, is more focused on treating each knot of adhesions and the later formed scar tissue bands in hopes of reducing pain and other unwanted symptoms. At the same time, there may be an increase of range-of-motion, a return of muscle group function and improving overall flexibility of the treated region.

Get to the Source of Your Musculoskeletal Pain & Mobility Issues

When patients choose to undergo a muscle release technique session, they are finally getting down to the very source of the musculoskeletal dysfunction and resulting pain, stiffness and decreased mobility.

This innovative and highly effective treatment option doesn’t just temporarily medicate the pain, the procedure is intended to find and target underlying causes instead.

Common Symptoms That May Indicate Presence of Restrictive Scar Tissue

Symptoms that may indicate scar tissue include:

• Sharp, stabbing pain felt on foot bottom near the heel
• Decreased flexibility
• Pain that increases with movement
• Limited range of motion
• Stiffness of neck, back, and joints
• Similar stiffness and pain in hands, shoulders, or knees
• Muscle or overall weakness
• Development of stress headaches like migraines
• Lack of body and musculoskeletal strength
• Numbness, weakness or tingling sensations
• Inflamed and sometimes swollen joints

How Long Do Patients Wait Before Seeing Significant Symptom Relief?

Some patients do experience tenderness during the initial treatment sessions. However, this will usually subside, and the treated areas will often improve with time and with successive treatment sessions. Many patients report that they feel less discomfort even at the beginning stages of the treatment therapy.

Benefits of Undergoing Muscle Release Technique with/without Other Therapies

• Offers robust pain management with hopes of full-resolution without strong and addicting pain medications in some patients
• May increase the overall quality of life and improve health and well-being
• Less invasive than surgery and other treatment options
• May promote long-term healing and resolution of symptoms in some cases
• Works great for athletic injuries and pain due to sitting at computers or sleeping in bad positions
• Treatments can be personalized for each unique patient

The best way to determine whether the muscle release technique or another chiropractic treatment is right for you is to set up an in-depth consultation appointment with an experienced and caring chiropractor. You will be able to ask questions and convey your concerns. Friendly and knowledgeable representatives are happy to help.

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