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Clinical Soft Tissue Manual Therapy
A Comparison between Therapeutic Massage and Clinical Soft Tissue Manual Therapy
There are a few differences between these two kinds of massage. Clinical Soft Tissue Manual Theraphy deals with soft tissue injury as well as dysfunction as opposed to health maintenance. This means that it is meant to repair tissues. It also deals directly with the specific affected tissue rather than a full body massage. The first step in Clinical Soft Tissue Manual Theraphy is for the therapist to assess the condition of the client. Next is to carry out the process in shorter segments at least two or three days per week to ensure tissue healing. From one session to another, the therapist will keep track of the client’s records to make out the progress.
In contrast with the above, therapeutic massage will produce endorphins at the injury’s location. Endorphins are kill pain naturally, meaning that when a patient gets off the massage table, the pain might be temporarily gone. However, immediately the endorphins wear off, pain will be experienced again. This is an implication that in comparison to Clinical Soft Tissue Manual Theraphy, therapeutic massage does not repair the damaged tissue. Further, a long relaxation massage together with its deep nerve stimuli will inhibit cellular function. Too much of stimulation extremely stresses the limbic control center of the brain, a process that results in a negative effect. On the other hand, the shorter stimulus of Clinical Soft Tissue Manual Theraphy enhances cellular function. In this sense, Clinical Soft Tissue Manual Theraphy in generally meant to repair and heal tissues and injuries along with stopping the pain cycle that goes
with it.
Problem Specification
Clinical manual therapists have more intense knowledge of anatomy and physiology, health problems, and the best way to treat them. Even though it is more advantageous to work with the whole person rather than the problem or injury alone, sometimes there is a need for direct attention prior to the whole person’s healing. Thus, treating the specific injury is important for a client to be freed from pain and dysfunction. The work of a clinical manual therapist is to find and treat the root of the pain or injury in the first place instead of treating the symptom. This reminds of the goal of Clinical Soft tTssue Manual
Therapy as that of healing the cause rather than a temporary relief of symptoms.
Problem Specification
Clinical manual therapists have more intense knowledge of anatomy and physiology, health problems, and the best way to treat them. Even though it is more advantageous to work with the whole person rather than the problem or injury alone, sometimes there is a need for direct attention prior to the whole person’s healing. Thus, treating the specific injury is important for a client to be freed from pain and dysfunction. The work of a clinical massage therapist is to find and treat the root of the pain or injury in the first place instead of treating the symptom. This reminds of the goal of clinical massage as that of healing the cause rather than a temporary relief of symptoms.
The Work of Clinical Massage Therapy
Clinical Soft Tissue Manual Therapy involves a simple procedure: first is to Un-constrict the soft tissue and the muscle, then initiate diffusion. The process enables the break up and release of waste by-products out of the injured area. Next, the body will by natural means send a histamine response to eliminate the metabolic waste as always. With this, proper blood flow will again flow to the blood starved tissues, transporting nutrients for both repair and healing. Better lymph circulation, muscle relaxation, and pain relief is also facilitated. Moreover, Clinical Soft Tissue Manual Therapy helps postural dysfunction, loosen enduring tight muscles, and reinforce lax muscles. All these result in a balanced body that does not fight against a force of gravity.
An Explanation Behind it: The Mechanical Effects
In normal circumstances, a tissue does not hurt when touched. Muscle guarding refers to the protection of the damaged tissue or injury by the body through tightening up. A human body will often try to protect itself. This happens when the brain sends a nerve signal to the muscle to tighten up so that the injury can be protected. Much energy is necessary for a body to constrict the muscle. When this happens constantly, a lot of energy is taken up, yet when energy is burned up, waste becomes the by-product. Even though metabolic waste at the cellular is usual, when this waste by-product is in excess, it becomes a concern as the issue cannot eliminate the excessive waste.
When the soft tissue cannot keep up with the extra waste that the cells are getting rid of, the acidic waste contains a positive charge. Given the fact that blood also has a positive charge, the two positives repel each other. The accumulation of the waste in the soft tissue repels the blood form the area. In the process, the soft tissue becomes ischemic, that is, blood starvation and metabolic waste thus remains in the tissue. Lack of good blood circulation to the injury implies that there are insufficient nutrients necessary for tissue repair. Apart from this problem, the constricted muscle will also exert pressure on the blood vessels as well as nerves in the injured area. This makes the tissue to slip into a pain-spasm-main cycle.
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Effects of Clinical Soft Tissue Manual Theraphy to the Nervous System
Apart from repairing and healing tissues, Clinical Soft Tissue Manual
Theraphy also aims at assessing the cause of the problem before any step is taking. For instance, a forward head carriage with rounded shoulders can be caused by thoracic outlet syndrome, thus placing extreme pressure on the branchial plexus nerve bundle. The impairment of the nervous system can have a direct or indirect impact on all muscles and organ tissues in a given area. In most cases, a pain-spasm-pain cycle, a persistent condition lasting for more than one month has a hidden intense cause. Given the fact that all pain comes from the brain, the nerve receptors pick up signals then send them to the brain for translation. In addition, all muscle and connective tissue is full of nerves. It is important for the therapist to affect the nervous system in order to stop the pain cycle. The 24 bones in motion that make up the spine are mostly the cause of a pain cycle. Any loss of useful movement and arrangement or position of these bones will attack the spinal cord with painful afferent stimuli that will in turn increase in the nervous system activity.
As the nerve roots move into the spinal cord, they are significantly affected by the spine’s 24 joints, their fascia, capsules, muscles, and ligaments that hold them together. Clinical Soft Tissue Manual Theraphy aims at normalizing spinal motion and function. As a result, these parts are aligned to normalize the central nervous system and reduce pain. Additionally, the intervention in the fascia’s sensory receptor system aids in lengthening and making strong the joint capsules, fascia, ligaments, and the muscles. The whole process controls, supports, and gives normal, pain-free movement of the spine and other body joints.
Systematic Impacts
When the injured muscle burns too much energy, fatigue will always set in both to the injured muscle and the whole body. Fatigue will affect both the body and the immune system, making the body to be excessively stressed. Too much stress conveys the adrenal glands into hyperactivity, forcing the production of excessive hormone like cortical that weakens the immune system.
Effectiveness of the Treatment
During a Clinical Soft Tissue Manual Therapy, the discharge of metabolic by-products is hastened into the system to be transported by the venous blood flow, lymph system, the liver, and the kidney. This is an affirmative, normal reaction to prove how effective the treatment was even though it will result in muscle soreness shortly. Following a clinical massage session, a client is advised to ice the affected area before taking a rest that night to reduce muscle soreness.