Soft Tissue Mobilization In Bradenton

People who have suffered from prolonged overuse of their muscles often use soft tissue mobilization. It can help loosen up tight areas, make recovery faster and easier, so you can get back to your goal.

Soft tissue mobilization, a type of manual medical massage therapy, is where your licensed medical massage therapist uses hands-on techniques to your muscles and ligaments with the aim of breaking adhesions. It also optimizes your muscle function.

Adhesions occur when your body attempts to heal a soft tissue trauma with long-term inflammation. This results in collagenous scar tissue and long strands. These new tissues pull together, creating trigger points for pain.

Goals of soft tissue mobilization:

• Reduce adhesions or break them down
• Increase range of motion
• Strengthen muscles and tendons
• Reducing swelling and edema
• Reduce pain
• Restore functionality

Soft Tissue Mobilization Techniques Used in Bradenton

Your licensed PT has been specially trained to manipulate your muscles, ligaments and nerves in precise ways that will provide pain relief and help you get back to normal.

There are specific techniques that can be used to mobilize soft tissue.

Sustained pressure – pushing directly on the restricted tissue.

Locking the spiral – Push on the restrained tissue in an alternating clockwise/counterclockwise rotating motions

Direct oscillations – rhythmic pushing on the restricted tissues

Perpendicular mobilization –  Pushing on the myofascial tissue from right angles.

Parallel mobilization – Pushing along the muscle seams

Perpendicular strumming – It is rhythmic pushing along the muscle border, followed by rubber of the top of the muscle

Friction massage – Pushing across the grain of muscles, tendons, and ligaments

To be able to use soft tissue mobilization techniques, you need to have a solid understanding of anatomy and physiology. You also need to understand the effects on massage function that manipulating tissues can have. Medical massage therapists are trained in the evaluation, assessment, and treatment of movement dysfunction disorders. We use many strategies to help patients achieve their functional goals, including soft tissue mobilization.

Benefits of Soft Tissue Mobilization in Bradenton

Medical massage therapists have a wealth of resources to help them treat patients with soft tissue mobilization. It can reduce pain, restore soft tissue, increase mobility, improve function, and speed up recovery. Soft tissue mobilization can be used to treat the following conditions:

• Ankle sprains
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Chronic back pain
• Chronic neck pain
• Hip pain
• Knee pain
• Muscle strains and sprains
• Plantar fasciitis
• Scar tissue
• Shoulder pain
• Shin splints
• Tendinitis
• Scarring after surgery
• Epicondylitis
• De Quervain’s tenosynovitis

We are available to help you with any questions, strains, or sprains regarding soft tissue mobilization.