Instrument Assisted Fascial Release:
This therapy is an innovative, form of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization that enables clinicians to effectively break down scar tissue and fascial restrictions. The technique utilizes specially designed stainless steel instruments  to specifically detect and effectively treat areas exhibiting soft tissue fibrosis or chronic inflammation.
What's different for the patient?
Decreases time of treatment
Promotes faster rehabilitation
Reduces need for anti-inflammatory medication
Resolves chronic conditions often thought to be permanent
Restores more normal tissue flexibility and integrity

Interferential Current Therapy:

Interferential current is effective in relieving pain and reducing swelling. It was introduced as a therapy in the 1950's . It allowed the application of electrical currents and virtually eliminated the discomfort of lower frequency currents According to the theory behind IFC, pain needs to be relieved because it produces spasms and unnatural movement within the body. These restrictions can lead to even more injuries. The IFC current has an analgesic effect - it deadens the pain - and a vasodilatory effect on the tissues, which means it causes the blood vessels to dilate or expand. Swelling is reduced because the permeability of the cells increases and venous and lymphatic flow are also improved.

A typical treatment regimen will involved 12 sessions, lasting between 10 and 15 minutes each. The absolute maximum length for an IFC treatment is half an hour. The therapist will likely book your treatments at least twice a week for effectiveness. Less often than this is virtually useless. Usually, four electrodes supplied by two channels are used on the patient. They can be attached to the skin through a variety of methods.

Low Energy Laser Therapy:

Low level energy laser or “cold laser” treatment allows patients to experience the benefits of laser therapy to treat repetitive strain injuries without feeling a thing. The modality involves a laser output of 100 milliwatts or less. By using a lower wattage of power than conventional lasers, it has no thermal effect on tissue, which allows the device to penetrate deeply into the skin without pain.            

Laser radiation of as low intensity as a few milliwatts, causing no tissue destruction, has even more interesting biological features. It can make cells more active, resulting in faster healing of resistant wounds and ulcerations It also speeds up delayed bone adhesions, regenerates damaged tissue, stimulates blood vessel development and influences immunological processes. Clinical observations and experiments carried out so far suggest that low-intensity laser irradiation positively affects living organisms - their cells, tissue and the whole body. The effect varies depending on the wave length, dose, time of irradiation, impulse shape and the technique applied.

A laser emits a thin, intense beam of nearly monochromatic visible or infrared light that can travel long distances without diffusing. Most light beams consist of many waves traveling in roughly the same direction, but the phases and polarizations of each individual wave (or photon) are randomly distributed. In laser light, the waves are all precisely in step, or in phase, with each other, and have the same polarization. Such light is called coherent.

As noted by Lasermedics Inc. of Sugar Land, TX, the manufacturer of the laser used in our office, the Microlight 830T, it uses the process of photobiostimulation to treat repetitive strain injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome. The company stated that most light has some penetration properties, however, it is often absorbed by the outermost layers of the skin. Traditional thermal (hot) laser light can penetrate the skin but frequently destroys tissue along with it. Because damaged cells benefit from light, the objective of the Microlight 830 is a a nonthermal and safe, deep-tissue penetrating treatment that could be used with no painful effects. This light reaches deeper and can be more effective than almost any other treatment modality available.?

Ryodoraku Electronic Acupressure:

Our office uses a time profen analysis and treatment program of electrical treatment of acupuncture points called Ryodoraku electrical acupressure. We can treat many painful condtions organ dysfunctions and are very successful in the treatment of seasonal respiratory allergies. What is Ryodoraku? In 1951 Dr. Yoshio Nakatani presented his research and theory of Ryodoraku Acupuncture. He found there were a series of low electrical resistance points (or high electrical conductivity) running up and down the body. When linked together, these points closely matched the acupuncture meridians. He called these lines "Ryodoraku (ryo=good, do=electro conductive, raku=line).

Dr. Nakatani was the first person to measure the electrical activity of acupuncture points and the first to formulate diagnostic and treatment criteria from these measurements. Nakatani was the first recorded acupuncturist to use electrical stimulation of acupuncture points. Point location and electrical stimulation has ecome the norm for most acupuncturists world wide, bu the Ryodoraku detection, analysis and point selection for electrical stimulation is much less popular. This is unforunate as Nakatani's concepts proide an sccurate pulse-organ diagnosis, accurate location of required treatment points and a very time efficient treatment regimen (generally only 7 seconds stimulation of each point is required). A classic acupuncture treatment lasting an average of 30 minutes would only take 2 - 3 minutes using Ryodoraku!

The indications for Ryodoraku are identical to those for acupuncture, but the results are often faster. In particular, acute pain and acute traumatic swelling, e.g. sports injury, will often respond during the initial treatment.

Ultrasound is a treatment that uses sound waves that are directed to the surrounding ligaments, muscles sinew and blood vessels. They penetrate the muscles to cause deep tissue/muscle warming. This promotes tissue relaxation and therefore is useful in treating muscle tightness and spasm. The warming effect of the sound waves also cause vessel vasodilatation and increase circulation to the area that assists in healing. The therapist can also adjust the frequency on the machine to use waves that will decrease inflammation. As the ultrasound waves pass from the treatment head into the skin they cause the vibration of the surrounding tissues, particularly those that contain collagen. This increased vibration leads to the production of heat within the tissue. In most cases this cannot be felt by the patient themselves. This increase in temperature may cause an increase in the extensibility of structures such as ligaments, tendons, scar tissue and fibrous joint capsules. In addition, heating may also help to reduce pain and muscle spasm and promote the healing process.

Effects on the Inflammatory and Repair Processes:

One of the greatest proposed benefits of ultrasound therapy is that it is thought to reduce the healing time of certain soft tissue injuries.

· Ultrasound is thought to accelerate the normal resolution time of the inflammatory process by attracting more mast cells to the site of injury. This may cause an increase in blood flow which can be beneficial in the sub-acute phase of tissue injury. As blood flow may be increased it is not advised to use ultrasound immediately after injury.

· Ultrasound may also stimulate the production of more collagen- the main protein component in soft tissue such as tendons and ligaments. Hence ultrasound may accelerate the the proliferative phase of tissue healing.

· Ultrasound is thought to improve the extensibility of mature collagen and so can have a positive effect to on fibrous scar tissue which may form after an injury.