Myotherapy can help improve the integrity of the soft tissue structures of your body (muscles, fascia, ligaments and tendons), which is important in the prevention of injury and dysfunction. Your soft tissues can be damaged or irritated in accidents, sporting activities, by having incorrect posture, from over-use (repetitive activities) or under-use, disease, or by physical and emotional stress. This damage sometimes presents as a trigger point (lump or knot) in the muscle.
Correct treatment and maintenance of trigger points, helps to reduce pain, soreness, tightness, and restriction of movement and muscle tension. Myotherapy can also help you restore maximum mobility by correcting and rehabilitating injuries and preventing recurrence.
Active trigger points are the most common and what you’ll usually first notice as a complaint. It is the pain you fell when you’re resting that intensifies when the muscle is used. These trigger points often refer pain elsewhere, and cause numbness, tingling or burning to other areas of the body.
Most people don’t even know they have a latent trigger point until their Myotherapist locates it for them! The longer you leave a latent trigger point, the more likely it is to become an active trigger point. They cause weakness and restriction of motion and they can persist for years after a pre-existing problem / condition or an injury. If left untreated while the muscle is shortened (tight), overused or injured, it can develop into an active trigger point.
Having regular Myotherapy treatment can prevent these latent trigger points from becoming active as your therapist will find them before they become a major problem.
We aspire to effectively and efficiently treat our clients, so that we can get them to a place of bodily maintenance. Then, you can choose to come in for your treatment when you want to, or you can take on your practitioner’s recommendation.
The effects of Myotherapy vary from person to person. Although we’d love to be able to offer you instant results (that some people actually do achieve), we know from experience that change and improvement usually occurs over time.