Active Release Technique

Have you heard of Active Release Technique? It is the soft tissue technique that continues to sweep across professional and amateur sports alike. As the ART website will tell you it’s the movement based massage that works on tendons, ligaments, muscles, fascia and nerves.  It helps with many conditions that are common training injuries such as shoulder pain, knee pain, tennis elbow, little leaguer’s elbow and many other things.

Overused muscles get injured in 3 ways.  A single traumatic incident, repetitive use (ie. turning wrenches), prolonged postures where oxygen is cut off to the tissue (ie. posture problems).  Any of these avenues lead to dense scar tissue that binds down ligaments, muscles, tendons or nerves that need to move freely. As the scar tissue continues to build up muscles become shorter and weaker, there is increased tension on tendons, and nerves become entrapped. All of this leads to decreased range of motion, loss of strength, tendonitis, and if nerves become entrapped then you can have numbness, tingling and weakness.

Dr Waggoner providing ART on the Rev3 Triathlon July 2011

Most of us has gone through some sort of injury and felt like it has taken a lot longer to get “back to normal” then we thought it should.   ART speeds up recovery and makes your body functional very quickly. You don’t need very many visits in general and it even helps with chronic problems.  Most patients are better or resolved in 2-3 weeks.

Make an appointment today and let us help you break that pain cycle!