Myotherapy in South Melbourne

Clinical myotherapy is the gentle therapeutic manipulation of soft tissue, using a broader clinical toolkit than remedial massage to treat musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction, assist injury rehabilitation, and optimise and protect athletic performance. The clinic is in the heart of South Melbourne, on City Road near Clarendon Street, your local clinic.

Treating chronic pain at the source

This clinic’s primary focus is chronic pain, pain that is usually six months or more in duration, that does not always have a single obvious cause, and that persists long after an original injury has healed. Rather than chasing the symptom, myotherapy here aims to understand and treat the underlying driver, whether that is muscular, neural, articular or visceral in origin.

The techniques a myotherapy session can include

• Trigger point therapy, by direct manual pressure or dry needling.
• Myofascial tension technique, restoring movement through restricted fascia.
• Cupping, vacuum suction to free tissue and increase blood flow.
• Dry needling, a fine needle to deactivate trigger points, treating several sites at once with an analgesic effect.
• Exercise prescription, individualised stretches, strength, mobilisation and neuromuscular work that evolves as you improve.

Dry needling and exercise prescription are what distinguish a clinical myotherapy session from a remedial massage.

What myotherapy commonly helps

• Chronic back, neck and joint pain.
• Postural imbalances and movement compensations.
• Sports injuries and athletic recovery, including training loads picked up around Albert Park Lake and MSAC.
• Pain that has not responded to other treatment.

What to expect

A first visit starts with your history, when the problem began and what makes it better or worse, then a hands-on assessment to find the actual driver of the pain rather than just the site of the symptom. Treatment follows, drawn from the techniques above, and you leave with a plan: rehabilitation is a collaborative process between therapist and patient, and considers the whole person, physical, psychological, emotional and environmental. Because it is your local clinic, the follow-up appointments and progress reviews that make that plan work are easy to fit around a South Melbourne routine.