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South Bay Sports Clinic is your one stop fitness training, sports rehab, massage therapy, active release, nutrition and health center in Southern California.
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Active Release Techniques
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Active Release Techniques treatment is a hands-on touch and case-management system that allows the practitioner to diagnose and treat soft tissue injuries. Soft tissue refers primarily to muscle, tendon, fascia and nerves. Specific injuries that apply are repetitive strains, adhesions, tissue hypoxia and joint dysfunction. ART contains about 500 techniques and it has been scientifically proven to have a success rate of about 90%.
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How is ART different from other therapies?
Closer to physical therapy than a relaxing massage, ART was described in a September 2004 Runner's World article as "…a rigorous and interactive form of massage therapy in which a practitioner applies pressure to the affected area while moving the surrounding muscles through a full range of motion." (www.runnersworld.com/article). The treatment is very precise and it focuses only on the concerned areas. The patients are dressed in comfortable sports clothes and are asked in most instances to actively fulfill the range of motion themselves. This gives them a better control of the treatment and also blocks the pain at the lateral spinal-thalamic tract. While the affected muscles are in motion, we assess and identify the damaged tissue along its entire length and release the adhesions at all different depths levels, separating bound tissue and restoring function. In this way, we are uniquely able to return complete motion to the full length of the affected soft tissue and to its adjacent soft-tissue structures.
ART does not use mechanical instruments during the session, nor does it use any sort of lotion. The reason is that over 50% of ART protocols involve releasing an entrapped nerve usually caused by inflammation or adhesions. In order to do this effectively, an ART provider must feel a nerve as it moves through the muscle. This requires an extremely tactile, anatomic approach so that the exact position of entrapment is pinpointed and released from the soft-tissue it has adhered to.
Many professional athletes use ART in treatment of serious injuries due to its proven 90% success rate. Injury and tightness causes short, restricted soft-tissue structures that then become weak. The removal of these restrictions results in an almost immediate increase in strength, mobility and reaction time due to improved muscular and nervous function. |
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