Astym Therapy for Healing and Recovery in Joplin
Innovative Treatment for Tendinitis and Scar Tissue
What Is Astym Therapy?
Astym Therapy is designed to restore soft tissues at a cellular level. It regenerates healthy soft tissues (muscles, tendons, etc.) and removes unwanted scar tissue that may be causing pain or movement restrictions. Astym Therapy has helped countless people by restoring their movement, getting rid of their pain, and giving them back their lives.
Why Astym Therapy?
Astym Therapy helps you avoid surgery and injections, continued disability, activity limitations during recovery, and excessive costs.
If you’re experiencing pain, restricted movement, or a chronic soft tissue condition, Astym Therapy offers you a trusted treatment plan that’s proven to work fast and give you lasting results.
How It Works
After conducting a thorough evaluation to make sure Astym Therapy is right for you, your certified therapist will walk you through a treatment plan tailored to your needs. This plan typically includes treatment a customized stretching and strengthening program designed to encourage your body to heal correctly.
The Benefits:
Astym therapy provides solutions for all kinds of soft tissue problems, even hard-to-treat conditions that have not been resolved through other methods in the past.
- Works quickly: typical course of treatment lasts only 4-5 weeks (8-10 visits)
- Immediate Results: rapid decrease in pain and increase in range of motion
- It’s non-invasive: no needles, no incisions
- Stay Active: continue work, sports, and other daily activities during therapy
Does Astym break up scar tissue?
While some treatments focus on misguided attempts to mechanically break apart scar tissue, Astym Therapy focuses on working with the body to activate regenerative mechanisms. By using scientifically developed protocols, Astym Therapy engages the body to resorb problematic scar tissue and stimulate healing of soft tissues. The result is a kinder, gentler treatment that is appropriate for a wide variety of patient populations and conditions.
What To Expect During Your Visit
After conducting a thorough evaluation to make sure Astym Therapy is right for you, your certified therapist will walk you through a treatment plan tailored to your needs. Astym Certified therapists go through rigorous training to learn the treatment and techniques used in managing soft tissue damage and follow specific treatment parameters to initiate the healing process. They will glide instruments firmly along your skin, following the direction of the muscle, tendon or ligament. You will feel bumps as the instrument moves along your skin. These bumps are the defective soft tissue. After treatment, you stretch and strengthen. With Astym Therapy, you’re an active participant in your recovery! Your therapist will give you a customized stretching and strengthening program designed to encourage your body to heal correctly.
Benefits of Astym Therapy
Astym Therapy helps you get better faster with a safe and effective approach to treating your pain and stiffness. Astym Certified therapists treat the cause, not just the symptoms of your pain. Astym therapy can resolve tough injuries and conditions, even when other treatments have failed!
Amy became certified in Astym Therapy in 2001 and has been on faculty since 2003, helping develop the Astym treatment protocols.
Astym Therapy effectively treats the following conditions/diagnoses
- Achilles Tendinopathy
- Anterior and Posterior Tibialis Tendinopathy
- Arthrofibrosis
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Chronic Ankle Pain and Stiffness
- Chronic Wrist Pain and Stiffness
- DeQuervain’s Tenosynovitis
- Golfer’s Elbow (Medial Epicondylopathy)
- Hamstring Strain
- IT Band Syndrome
- Jumper’s Knee
- Low Back Pain (nonradicular)
- Patellar Tendinopathy
- Plantar Fasciitis (Plantar Fasciopathy)
- Post-Mastectomy Scarring
- Post-Surgical Scarring/Fibrosis
- Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy
- Scar Tissue/Fibrosis from Previous Injuries or Surgeries
- Tennis Elbow (Lateral Epicondylopathy)
- Trochanteric Bursitis