Manipulative Therapy is a health profession to assess and treat patients with pain, injuries that affect the well being/ mobility and do physical activities. Manipulative Therapy, also known of Spinal Manipulation and peripheral joint manipulation is a hands on treatment with various techniques of
- Tissue work
- Gentle Myofacial release techniques
- Heat / Cold
- Faradics [gentle electric stimuli to stimulate smooth , uninterrupted contractions in the affected muscle/group of muscles]
- Muscle energy technique of reducing pain in muscles and strengthening them with isometric contraction of the stretched muscles
- Gentle rhythmic mobilization/thrust of the joints
- Advice on specific exercises that help with posture/pain/movement of affected musculoskeletal area
- Advice on lifestyle
few aspects of Manipulative therapy are often an important part of preventative care, rehabilitation and treating chronic conditions leading to mobility problems, illnesses or injuries
The purpose of Manipulative therapy is to
- To Relieve/manage pains and aches
- To improve quality of day-to-day life
- To help you move better and improve joint function
- To strengthen the weakened muscles
- To help with chronic conditions /illnesses
- To help with injuries of short term or repeated stress injuries or sports injuries
Mechanisms of Treatments for various Musculoskeletal area
Treatment modalities involve gentle technique of release of muscular, tendentious, myo facial release, dry needling of trigger points, and releasing tension to induce a deeper relaxation and re introduce healthy mobility through proper exercises
Also personally customized yoga stretches are taught for mobility and pain management
At Gita clinic we carefully design the treatment modality to unwind the tightness around ribs and spine release stiffness, decrease inflammation and advice about lifestyle to reduce the pain
Manipulative Therapy for Thoracic pain and chest
The effect of posture repeated stress injuries, weight lifting, and in some cases some health issues involving lungs, cough can affect the para-spinal muscles, ribs getting affected, inter costal muscles getting inflamed bringing acute and Chronic pains of various levels
Manipulative Therapy for Shoulder
This is mobile in all possible ranges and is susceptible for tendon injuries and inflammation around the shoulder girdle
Manipulative Therapy for Neck
Being the sensitive, mobile weight bearing area, neck is also a place of retention of stress, high degree wear and tears of cervical vertebrae, joints, TM joint, upper shoulders and is a usual place of tension, aches, pains and muscular tiredness
Manipulative Therapy for lower back
Lower back takes upper body weight and transfers to pelvis, it connects the less mobile thoracic spine and Sacrum bone, which articulates with 2 hip bones on either side. Being susceptible for wear and tears of disc, tight para-spinal muscles, taking myofascial tightness from gluteal area and from upper and lower body, lower back usually remains tense and achy and sometimes quite painful.
The treatment modality relaxes the muscles, gives enough space for the discs to align into normal space, reduce tightness, re introduce normal and healthy range of movement
Manipulative Therapy for pelvis and hip – pelvis
This Bears all upper body weight and transmits to legs. The SI joint and hip joint along with pubic area form a more complex unit for dysfunction with repeated stress injuries along with the dynamics of musculoskeletal functions of leg
The treatment is a more of a global approach to resolve the issues around the most dependable part of the pelvis and treating with various techniques and stretches.
Chronic and resistant pains are approached with a systematic and systemic approach and lifestyle modalities are successfully applied to relieve the symptoms and to give a better quality of life
Manipulative Therapy for Knee
Knee plays a key role in motion related injuries, weight bearing etc and susceptible for ligament/meniscal injuries.
The treatment starts with a proper re evaluation and more specific methods of protecting the involved tissue and restoring full range of movement and keep the inflammation low. Protecting the knee and following good stretches and taking precautions to prevent further worsening of the condition is the aim of treatment
Manipulative Therapy for Foot and Ankle
The sprots injuries, and repeated stress injuries affect the Deltoid ligaments, calcaneal bone, Achilles Tendon, Plantar fascia etc for the inflammation, pain.
The treatment involves working through trigger points, muscle energy techniques use of dry needle, heat/cold to reduce pains and aches and improve gait
Treatment method involves proper evaluation, tissue work, gentle mysofascial release technique and dry needling along with patient education, stretches and exercises
Manipulative Therapy for elbow
The rather extensive use of elbow in every task of the day brings its own challenges to the integrity of Elbow especially with tendons, ligaments and sometimes the inflammation can also affect structes above and below and the nerves passing through Elbow
Treatment modality involves careful and gentle tissue work, manipulation and rest along with good stretches
Manipulative Therapy for Wrists
The all moving fingers and wrists bring early changes in tendons and long term issues with tendons and joint
The treatment involves unwinding the achy, tired and knotted structures around the wrist, stretching them and reducing tightness, pain and re introduce stretches to bring back full range of movements in wrist joint
Myofascial release technique- one of the most gentle, sublte treatment to relave tissue tension, aches pains and help to relax and sleep
Various joints and junction of musculoskeletal system and relieved of the tension and unwind to feel much less under pressure
Dry Needling- the trigger points along the tight trigger points of musculo skeletal system. The needles are left to work for few minutes before taking them out