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ACTIVE RELEASE TECHNIQUE GIG HARBOR
ACTIVE RELEASE TECHNIQUE (ART) TARGETS BREAKING UP SCAR TISSUE, INCREASING MUSCLE MOVEMENT AND RANGE OF MOTION.
Whether you are a Seattle Sounders Soccer player or a professional desk jockey. PRO SPORT Chiropractic is the clinic for athletes and injury patients seeking Active Release Technique in Gig Harbor. Active Release Technique (ART) is one of the most advanced soft tissue techniques available. Most professional sports organizations have a certified ART practitioner on their sidelines. Why not have one in your corner?
What is ART?
Active Release Techniques® (ART) is a specialized, hands-on treatment which allows us to diagnose and treat soft tissue injuries that occur in your muscles, ligaments, tendons, nerves, blood vessels and fascia. Damage can take place within the tissues themselves from sudden trauma (tears, sprains, blunt trauma.) Other damage can accumulate over time such as in the case of carpal tunnel, tendonitis, bursitis, or poor posture.
Your body’s natural response is to replace the damaged tissue with something inferior – scar tissue or fibrosis. The scarring process causes the inferior tissues to adhere to themselves as well as to other related structures, resulting in stiffness, pain, decreased function, and sometimes numbness and tingling.
ART® is the only treatment designed to effectively treat soft tissue injuries within nearly every structure of the musculoskeletal system. Combining the understanding of biomechanics and movement with hands-on applied techniques, ART® treatment protocols normalize the relationship of moving tissues to one another – thereby eliminating pain and dysfunction
Our Active Release Technique Doctors
Our Active Release Technique Gig Harbor chiropractors, Dr. Forrest Hartford, Dr. Sean Spaulding, Dr. Josie Ball and Dr. Shelby Lockhart have undergone extensive training to learn the Active Release Technique. They utilizes this revolutionary technique in conjunction with other chiropractic related techniques to get you feeling your best. We also utilize the graston technique, and other related services for your benefit.
What is an Active Release Technique treatment like?
After a diagnosis has been reached based on a history and examination, treatment can be rendered. Since soft tissue injuries created by scar tissue cannot be detected by a machine (such as X-ray or MRI), or by any orthopedic tests, ART is itself a diagnostic tool. The practitioner can determine where the adhesions are, and how severe the soft tissue injury is, simply by his/her touch.
ART is generally performed with a direct contact from the doctor to the patient’s skin. The practitioner will find the area to be worked on and either have the patient actively move a body part or passively move the body part for the patient. The practitioner’s contact, coupled with the movement of the patient, allows the adhesions to separate.
The treatment protocols – over 500 specific moves – are unique to ART. They allow providers to identify and correct the specific problems that are affecting each individual patient.
SPORTS CHIROPRACTIC / SPORTS REHAB / MASSAGE THERAPY / ACTIVE RELEASE TECHNIQUE / SPORTS MEDICINE / GIG HARBOR
Dose ART hurt?
ART goes right after the sights of adhesion in order to break up the scar tissue creating the pain and dysfunction. Since these sights are very sensitive to begin with, ART may create some discomfort described by many patients as a “good hurt”. However, pressure is never applied beyond the patient’s tolerance.
Why Active Release Technique?
Active Release Technique in Gig Harbor can be use to treat acute injury’s from sports, everyday life, car accidents, and repetitive motion injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, iliotibial band syndrome, pronation syndrome, and a other problems associated with overuse. These types of injuries are termed cumulative trauma injuries. Other than acute sports and car accident injuries, these are typically problems that build over time and sneak up on you. You suddenly develop pain in your hip, shoulder, wrist, or such. ART is the gold standard in treating soft tissue injuries, which is why it is quickly become a standard of care for professional athletes, Olympians.
How Does ART Help?
The basic premise of the technique is that scar tissue, or adhesions are formed with overuse activity or single traumatic injuries. With overusing a muscle, a lack of oxygen is created which attract fibroblastic cells that lay down scar tissue. With single traumatic injuries, or surgical sites, they can also produce scar tissue, due to the lack or tissue regeneration ability.
Scar tissue restricts the normal function of tissue. Such as movement, contraction, relaxation that are needed for optimal function. When optimal function is retarded through stability or mobility, dysfunction will arise and pain will follow. Getting the Active Release Technique in Gig Harbor performed at our office will give you results. After the first treatment, you will usually notice improved motion with less pain.
This is a technique that everyone can benefit from and can have long lasting results. Our everyday motions or lack of motion can create scar tissue that can be treated by ART. What is Active Release Technique? It is a technique that is taught around the entire world because it has proved useful in restoring that bodies natural function. You can learn more on the official ART site. If you would like an appointment to see if the Active Release Technique is right for you, please call 253-853-4001.
Who can benefit from ART?
The quick answer to this is anyone who is in pain due to a soft tissue injury. ART is used in a clinical setting on Professional and Olympic athletes, office workers, laborers, housewives, youth athletes, weekend warriors, marathon runners, triathletes, CrossFit enthusiast as well as many others. What these people all have in common are overuse injuries, it is simply the mechanism or cause of the injury that varies. ART effectively treats muscles, tendons, ligaments and fascia throughout the body that have become congested with scar tissue by freeing up their ability to function and thereby reducing pain.
Active Release Techniques in Gig Harbor – Applied by the Chiropractors at PRO SPORT. ART is also effective at treating peripheral nerve entrapments where a nerve has become entangled by scar tissue and has tension or pressure exerted during certain positions or movements. Through a provider’s extensive training, they are taught where the nerves are most likely entrapped and how best to reduce the adhesions. This gives individuals who suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome and other peripheral nerve entrapments a quick and easy solution to their complaints.
Conservative treatments such as ART should be explored before a person has decided they cannot be helped for their given condition. You don’t have to live with pain. If it’s a soft tissue structure that is causing your pain, it can most likely be fixed.
Active Release Technique is highly effective for many soft tissue ailments such as:
• Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSI)
• Rotator Cuff Syndrome
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Iliotibial Band Syndrome
• IT Band Treatment
• Knee Bursitis Treatment
• Running Injuries
• Shoulder Impingement Treatment
• Hip Bursitis Treatment
• Plantar Fasciitis Treatment
• Neck Pain
• Low Back Pain
• Knee pain
• Whiplash Cases
• Tennis Elbow
• Frozen Shoulder
• Car Accident Related Injuries
• Sciatica
• Tendonitis
• Shin Splints
• Sprains/Strains
• Plantar Fascitis
• Swimmer’s Shoulder
• Tennis Elbow
• Golfer’s Elbow
• Headaches
PRO SPORT is one of the best provider of Active Release Technique in the Gig Harbor / Pierce County area. For more information on Active Release Technique click on a link below.
Active Release Technique Website
What our patients are saying
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A friend of mine from the Sounders referred me to Dr. Sampatacos and his team after I injured my knee. Great guy and surgeon. The entire process from surgery to rehab has been significantly easier thanks to the expertise of this doctor and his team. More places should consider building a business that incorporates so many specialists under one roof.
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Couldn’t be happier. Dr. Sampatacos spent more time with me than any doctor I’ve ever met, and the rest of the staff was amazing too. So glad I was referred to them.
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The treatment I have received from Dr. Sean Spaulding has been nothing less than life changing! Sean has provided me with the perfect combination of Chiropractic, Tissue Manipulation and Physical Therapeutic care. I suffered decades with chronic problems and endlessly searching for the right team of chiropractors, massage therapists and personal trainers to alleviate my physical problems. I never thought I would be able to receive this amount of successful treatment from one person. I am looking forward to continuing my treatment with Dr. Sean Spaulding. You should too!
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I started seeing Dr. Hartford after going to a physiotherapist for 4 months with no change. I was skeptical at first after being frustrated with my previous care. Dr. Hartford is very knowledgeable and caring. And I am now better! I can’t recommend him and Dr. Spaulding enough. I was sure my next step was surgery. So even though their office is an hour away from my house, I decided to give them a try. One of the main reasons was that Dr. Hartford works with the Sounders. I figure if a pro sports team trusts him, then that’s where I want to go. Dr. Hartford is worth every penny, and he’s super funny too! If you need a chiropractor go here! I am through with my current problem, but will return in a second if I am in need of any chiropractic care.
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Best place I’ve ever been to and I highly recommend Pro Sport and Spine to anyone that wants to heal, strengthen and maintain their body. They are better and unlike any other chiropractor I’ve seen. With hour long appointments, dedicated solely on me, I receive soft tissue work, adjustments stretches and exercises. Both doctors, Sean and Forest, are equally great, knowledgeable, passionate, friendly and truly care about my experience. I have gone to chiropractors, physical therapists, masseuses and orthopedic surgeons, but Pro Sport and Spine has made the biggest difference with my injuries and pain. I completely trust them and will be forever grateful and loyal. Every visit I learn new things and always leave happy!
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I love this place! After about 9 months of struggling with hip pain, I decided to try Pro Sport and Spine. I have not been a fan of chiropractors in the past, however had read about their Active Release Technique and sports-minded approach and decided to give them a try. Their office has always been very friendly and helpful. Dr. Spaulding has combined his expertise along with teaching and encouraging me to work hard on home exercises. I am so thrilled with the progress he has helped me to achieve and am so excited to run and ski again!
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Dr Hartford is Amazing! I stated seeing him as a last resort. I tried Everything to help my back pain! I was in so much pain with 2 herniated discs and intense nerve pain. He worked with me and never gave up on me. To this day I have no sciatic nerve issues. I believe so much in what he does through ART. This is no ordinary Chiropractor he spends time with you and really cares for his patients. I could honestly go on and on how much I believe in his treatment.