Ultrasound therapy is a treatment modality used to treat pain conditions, and to promote tissue healing. Ultra sound is particularly effective for soft tissue injuries. It is used to treat back, neck and joint pain as well as muscle sprains/strains, bursitis, and tendonitis.
Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation
Also know as E-Stim or Muscle Stim, Electrical stimulation is a treatment modality which uses an electrical current to cause a single muscle or a group of muscles to contract. This contraction helps reduce pain, strengthen injured muscles and promotes healing. Muscle stim targets muscle to prevent retardation of muscular disuse atrophy, relaxation of muscle spasm, muscle reeducation, increases range of motion, and increases local blood circulation.
Cryo/Heat Therapy
Heat therapy is divided into two principal categories based on the heat's ability to penetrate your skin and affect your underlying tissues: superficial and deep. Examples of superficial heat therapies include hot packs and hydrotherapy. Examples of deep heat therapies include ultrasound. Applying heat to your tissues increases your circulation or blood flow and causes your connective tissue to become more flexible. It also promotes a transient reduction in your joint stiffness, pain and muscle spasms. Using heat therapies can help you reduce inflammation and congestion in your tissues. Heat therapy is used to treat many health complaints, including arthritis, muscle spasms, muscle sprains and strains
Cold therapy or "cryotherapy" is used to treat acute injuries of your musculoskeletal system. It is intended to reduce inflammation, circulation, muscle spasms and pain. Cold therapy cools your skin's surface and underlying tissues, which results in the narrowing of your blood vessels---a process called vasoconstriction. Vasoconstriction of your blood vessels causes a reduction in the blood volume to the site of your injury, resulting in reduced swelling.
Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (Graston Technique)
The unique protocol uses specially designed stainless steel instruments, along with appropriate therapeutic exercise, to specifically detect and effectively treat areas exhibiting soft tissue fibrosis or chronic inflammation. The instruments also are used diagnostically to follow the kinetic chain, to locate and treat the cause of the symptom as well as the specific area of pain. GT is also frequently used as an effective protocol to maintain range of motion.
Functional Movement Taping (Kinesiology Taping)
RockTape turns down the volume on pain
More specifically, it runs interference on pain. Ever whack your shin and rub it, and suddenly realize you feel better? RockTape on the skin can interfere with painful signals which are directed to the brain.
When the signals arriving to the brain are altered, it does not produce the sensation of pain. When kinesiology tape is properly applied, many of our customers call it “magic” or think that it fixed their injury instantly. In fact, it helps to change how your body interprets pain, turning down the pain “volume” that your body hears.
Decompresses an area of swelling and inflammation
When RockTape is applied to the skin, it has a microscopic lifting effect underneath the skin and between the many layers. This allows the by-products created by inflammation to be removed more quickly.
It delays fatigue
Research has shown that RockTape on skin can attenuate muscle fatigue. In rehab, this is very important, not only for the parts of your body that are currently hurting, but also for the surrounding areas as they help to pick up the slack for muscles that are currently not working well.
It normalizes muscle tone
When someone is injured, fatigued, sick, or inflamed, the symphony of muscle action that normally takes place with great accuracy often falls out of tune. This can happen all over the body. For instance, research has shown that people who sprain their ankle tend to have altered activity of their hip muscle as a result. RockTape helps bring dormant muscle back to life and help calm down the overactive muscles. It helps your body coordinate movement as if it weren’t hurt, hence allowing it to heal properly.
It distributes physical stress
Unlike conventional taping, which prevents movement – RockTape allows full movement of a taped area. Through elastic properties and quick recoil, RockTape can help distribute forces to other nearby areas through the fascia, ligaments, and even bones. http://www.rocktape.com/education-research/
DYNAMIC AIR COMPRESSION THERAPY POWERED BY NORMATECH
Are you a runner or athlete looking to enhance your muscle recovery, reduce muscle soreness & improve flexibility? Dynamic air compression therapy may be for you! Dynamic air compression effectively mimics the muscle pump of the legs and arms, enhancing the movement of fluid and metabolites out of the limbs after an intense workout. Created by a physician bioengineer (MD, Ph.D.), the Normatec line combines dynamic air compression with a patented Pulse massage pattern that employs three key techniques—pulsing, distal release, and gradients. Studies show it can help relieve muscle aches and/or pain and temporarily increase circulation resulting in increased flexibility and range of motion, injury prevention, and accelerated recovery time. As Normatec increases in popularity, it’s being used in a variety of settings. Sports teams, CrossFit athletes, runners, cyclists, and triathletes are among the people who use this technology.
Benefits of Dynamic Air Compression Therapy
Enhance blood flow and speed recovery
- Normatec’s patented Pulse massage pattern employs three key techniques – pulsing, distal release, and gradients.
High-tech warmup and a dynamic way to recover faster
- Integrate your recovery session seamlessly into your training plan and control your session directly from your phone.
Patented Pulse technology
- Flush out soreness and bring oxygenated blood to the part of the body furthest from the heart.
