Untie Those Painful Knots
Graston Technique is an innovative therapy tool used by physical therapists for soft tissue rehab that enables them to address pain management by reducing injury, scar tissue, pain and fascial restrictions. Muscle knots are formed when injured tissue and fascia heal improperly and scar tissue-like fibers forms. With Graston Technique the
body’s healing process restarts, and new nutrients and blood are brought to the area which allows the body to naturally heal.
Graston Technique utilizes specially designed stainless steel instruments to specifically detect and effectively treat conditions such as back pain, neck pain, arm pain, leg pain, tennis elbow, golfers elbow, knee pain, joint pain, and sport injury. Listed below are some detailed conditions and the effect of treatment by Graston Technique therapy.
Reducing Adhesions
How can Graston Technique help with numbness & tingling? There are many common sites where soft tissue can have scar tissue-like adhesions from muscle, joint pain, fascia, and ligaments anywhere along the path of a nerve. Releasing this compression or impingement can safely help many cases of numbness and tingling where surgery is not required. Rehabilitation with Graston Technique addresses acute and chronic pain. Capilano addresses pain management as a whole and incorporates physical therapy and Graston Technique in order to heal the injury without any use of drugs or medication. Graston Technique treats the cause of the pain without masking the symptoms with medication.
Our registered physical therapists also use Graston Technique to combat pain located outside the spine. Physical therapy treatment is used to heal the body as a whole because the body is a system of nerves, bones, muscles, and joints. Back pain and neck pain are intimately related to nerve pain, joint pain, muscle pain and proper alignment as they all function of co-exist together.
Injury must be looked at multiple levels of the body’s system in order to rehab pain and reestablish proper function. A combination of conventional Physical Therapy and Graston Technique is vital for achieving this goal.
Clinical Applications of the Patented GT Instruments
The Graston Technique (GT) tools enhances our physical therapists ability to detect pain, injury, fascial adhesions and restrictions. The use of Graston Technique has been shown to achieve positive outcomes in treating both acute and chronic conditions, including:
- Cervical sprain/strain (neck pain)
- Lumbar sprain/strain (back pain)
- Carpel tunnel syndrome (wrist pain)
- Plantar Fascitis (foot pain)
- Lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow)
- Medial epicondylitis (golfers elbow)
- Rotator cuff tendonitis (shoulder pain)
- Petellofemoral disorders (knee pain)
- Achilles tendonitis (ankle pain)
- Fibromyalgia
- Scar tissue
- Trigger points
- Shin splints
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