ACTIVE RELEASE TECHNIQUE® (ART®)

ART® is a patented, state of the art soft tissue system/movement based massage technique that treats problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and nerves. Headaches, back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, shin splints, shoulder pain, sciatica, plantar fasciitis, knee problems, and tennis elbow are just a few of the many conditions that can be resolved quickly and permanently with ART. These conditions all have one important thing in common: they are often a result of overused muscles.

Over-used muscles (and other soft tissues) change in three important ways:

• Acute conditions (pulls, tears, collisions, etc)
• Accumulation of small tears (micro-trauma)
• Not getting enough oxygen (hypoxia)

Each of these factors can cause your body to produce tough, dense scar tissue in the affected area. This scar tissue binds up and ties down tissues that need to move freely. As scar tissue builds up, muscles become shorter and weaker, tension on tendons causes tendonitis, and nerves can become trapped. This can cause reduced range of motion, loss of strength, and pain. If a nerve is trapped you may also feel tingling, numbness, and weakness.

TRIGENICS®

Is a neurogenic assessment and treatment system which rapidly relieves pain and restores strength and movement. Trigenics® is most often used by chiropractic or osteopathic physicians and physiotherapists as a unique and dramatically effective treatment system which combines recent advances in applied functional neurology with new manual medicine procedures.

With Trigenics® your nervous system is treated to essentially reset the way your brain communicates with your body. Patients are interactive participants in the treatment process rather than passive recipients. During the procedures, patients are required to generate and accentuate neurological monitoring reflexes which relate to and essentially control movement. The Trigenics® practitioner simultaneously accentuates these reflex signals by resisting specific movements while the patient exercises. Embedded nerve-sensors are also then manipulated and stimulated to change the way they send signals up to the brain. The brain then, in turn, changes the way in which it sends down its motor or movement signals to the body.

This creates the effect of immediately improving joint and muscle function to significantly decrease pain and increase strength and movement. Trigenics® is often performed manually without medications or machines. Doctors and therapists in the manual medicine fields, who use Trigenics®, often refer to it as the “missing element” of care. Trigenics® often helps when all else has failed.