Soft Tissue Therapy

Service Description

What is Soft Tissue Therapy? Soft tissue therapy combines various massage, stretching and mobilisation techniques in order to restore physical function and alleviate any pain or soreness from occupational stresses or previous injury. Damaged or dysfunctional muscles can trigger or radiate pain to other parts of the body. Soft tissue therapy aims to trace the source of the pain/discomfort, addressing both the cause of the problem and the symptoms. By locating and treating the dysfunctional, knotted, tense and/or immobile muscles in question, soft tissue therapy stimulates and accelerates your body’s own healing processes to get you back to feeling your best. What are the benefits? Soft tissue therapy has a number of positive impacts from physiological, to psychological, physical, and also neurological. Some of these include: - Alleviate muscular tension - Improve flexibility - Reduce swelling - Correct postural issues - Restore regular movement patterns essential for general physical function - Improve circulation and lymph flow - Relieve aches and pains - Reduce stress & anxiety What to expect from a treatment This treatment includes a carefully chosen combination of assessment tools and physical therapy techniques designed to locate and treat the root cause of your current issue. Every treatment will include: - Health and physical activity consultation - Subjective and objective assessments of your current issue - Postural analysis - Functional movement screening - Massage treatment - Rehab/prehab exercise and/or stretching advice