Brock Chiropractic

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What is ART? What is Cumulative Trauma? What is the cumulative injury cycle? How do I know if I have a problem? What are adhesions? What is the difference? Why haven't I heard of ART before? Who is a provider of ART? Do I need surgery? What is the ART treatment like? Will my condition return? What conditions will ART help? How does ART improve performance? How do I make an appointment? To the TOP Introduction to ART Active Release Techniques is a recently developed method for addressing soft tissue adhesions and dysfunctions. ART was developed by Dr. Michael Leahy, a doctor of chiropractic based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His Aeronautical Engineering degree and experiences from the U.S. Air Force Academy were combined with his knowledge of human systems to find a better way to treat soft tissue injuries. The result was Active Release Techniques. What is ART? ART provides a way to diagnose and treat the underlying causes of cumulative trauma disorders that result in symptoms of numbness, tingling, burning and aching. ART is a type of manual hands-on therapy that corrects muscular and soft tissue problems caused by adhesion formation as a result of injury, overuse or cumulative trauma. What is Cumulative Trauma? Cumulative Trauma disorder (CTD), Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI), Repetitive Motion injury, are all used to describe problems that arise from the cumulative injury cycle (CIC). Some common names of these conditions are Carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff syndrome, chronic low back pain, whiplash injury and poor posture. CTD's create physical signs and symptoms that are predictable and correctable using ART. What is the cumulative injury cycle (CIC)? If you set a pendulum into motion, you don't have to keep pushing it each time, it keeps going! Our bodies respond in much the same way. That's why it hurts even after the stress is removed. The cycle can be started in three ways, Acute Injury, Repetitive Injury and constant Pressure or Tension. Left uncorrected, they lead to inflammation, adhesions/fibrosis, weak and tense tissues and decreased circulation all in a specific progression called the Cumulative Injury Cycle. How do I know if I have a problem? Our bodies are very adaptable, they have to be to survive. Our bodies protect us from damage with pain signals and repair damaged areas with scar tissue. Very often, we think we are "better" after the pain goes away, however, what has happened is that the problem area "healed" with scar tissue. You probably will not be aware of the problem until a later date, maybe years from the original injury. You can recognize adhesion problems by loss of function. Loss of function could be a decrease in range of motion, weakness, stiffness, soreness and many other symptoms that many like to call "getting older". More accurately it 's "getting stuck to yourself" What are Adhesions? Our bodies contain special protein structures called connective tissue, also know as Fascia. This substance connects each part to other parts and the whole, very much like a flexible skeleton.

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