Ensuring treatments are long lasting.

Chronic Conditions

A chronic condition/injury, as opposed to acute, is usually one that develops gradually over a long period of time.

Chronic conditions are most often long standing and result from a confluence of causal factors. These factors may include movement compensations from previous injuries, soft tissue adhesions from surgeries, trauma or infection, poor athletic technique, inadequate equipment, overuse and loading of specific bones, tendons, ligaments and muscles. Rarely is the symptom being experienced the primary cause of a chronic condition. Therefore, careful attention and assessment is required to ensure treatments are long lasting.

Common types of Chronic Conditions:

  • Visceral
  • Neural
  • Ligamentous
  • Muscular
  • Oseus
For an organ to be in good health, it needs to be able to move. Organ movement and function may become restricted due to fascial adhesions resulting from physical trauma, invasive surgeries, infection and emotional stress. Internal organ restriction can have profound consequences for other systems in the body. If an organ is under distress and lacks the ability to slide and glide with its surrounding structures, muscle guarding will often result to immobilise and protect the affected organ. This is often experienced as reduced joint range of movement and referred muscular pain. To achieve lasting relief, visceral manipulation is warranted. To find out more about visceral manipulation, click here.
Whenever a joint is moved in the body, the nerves that cross over that joint need to be able to slide and glide within the connective tissue that surrounds them. When nerves lose this ability to slide and glide and become restricted, muscular tension and pain is the result. As Jean-Pierre Barral describes it, “the muscles are held hostage to the nerves.” Hence, when a neural restriction is the primary chronic cause, treating the surrounding muscles will only provide temporary relief at best. In these cases, for lasting resolution, neural manipulation is indicated. To find out more about neural manipulation, click here.
Ligaments connect bone to bone, as opposed to tendons, which connect muscle to bone. Ligamentous injury may take the form of strains and ruptures due to trauma, but may also take the form of tension and restriction within the ligament itself. Mainstream soft tissue therapy often neglects the treatment of ligaments entirely, believing that having no contractile fibres, there is no benefit to treating them. This is simply not true. Ligaments are highly reflexogenic and are very responsive to manual soft tissue therapy. This has profound benefits for joint mobility and health.
Muscular tension and pain is often the symptom rather than the primary cause of a chronic condition. Muscular pain/tension can result from guarding/protecting another injured structure, because of overuse due to poor body mechanics or movement compensation for injury and because of direct trauma or injury. To treat muscular pain/tension effectively, the primary causal driver must first be identified and assessed. This could be functional, visceral, neural, ligamentous or any combination thereof.
Much like ligaments, bones are often neglected as candidates for manual soft tissue treatment. However, bones are just another form of connective tissue, albeit denser than most fascia, and respond well to manual treatment. Bones can be injured in numerous ways such as breaks and fractures, but are also capable of storing force and tension, particularly when the trauma sustained isn’t great enough to rupture the tissue. For this reason, tension in bones can be manually released providing profound benefits to the health of surrounding tissues.

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Pain
Intense Pain
Pain is a complex phenomenon with many causal drivers. Soft tissue pain may be grouped into two broad categories: acute and chronic. This clinic’s primary focus is on treating chronic pain. Chronic pain is usually six months or more in duration. It does not always have a specific cause and persists long after the initial injury or disease resolves. Common causes of chronic pain include: - Muscular pain - Osteo-articular pain - Neural pain - Visceral pain
Flexability
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation is a collaborative process between therapist and patient that considers the whole person, incorporating the physical, emotional, psychological and environmental. Rarely does a rehabilitation challenge present with issues in only one area. It is almost always a combination of: - The Physical - The Psychological - The Emotional - The Environmental
Movement
Chronic Conditions
A chronic condition/injury, as opposed to acute, is usually one that develops gradually over a long period of time. Factors may include movement compensations, soft tissue adhesions, trauma, or infection, poor athletic technique, inadequate equipment, overuse and loading of specific bones, tendons, ligaments and muscles. Common types of conditions include: - Visceral - Neural - Ligamentous - Muscular - Oseus

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