MyoMedic

🏋🏼‍♂️Training with injuries🚑
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Injuries seem to be an inevitable part of sport and training. Whether you’re a team sport athlete, iron sport athlete or weekend warrior, chances are you’re going to be faced with an injury at some point.
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GOOD NEWS! You don’t always need to take time off from training! There are a lot of ways to alter training so that you can continue to progress while rehabbing an injury.
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As a CSCS and RMT I found this course particularly insightful and useful to help athletes to heal AND makes gains 💪🏼

As most of you may hace heard by now, Phase 2 of the Alberta relaunch program commenced as of June 12, 2020.

We will delay opening until June 15, 2020 to allow for proper sanitization and prep for new mandated regulations for healthcare workers.

Feel free to send me a direct message on Facebook to book or ask any questions. Alternatively you can book online through the Book Now button.

I’m looking forward to seeing you all on the table soon!

Massage can aid in recovery or add fatigue based on the treatment you receive.
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Aggressive massage treatments can disrupt physiological systems, mostly by creating some muscle damage. Sometimes this is necessary for the treatment of injuries.
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If you’re trying to rehab an injury the additional fatigue might be necessary in the short term so that you can return to optimal training.
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Less aggressive treatments can aid in recovery by temporarily increasing blood flow to target tissues. The degree of magnitude in which this aids in recovery needs more research before making definitive claims.
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It has been shown in research that massage therapy and physical touch can increase the parasympathetic response. Anytime we can enter a state of deeper relaxation our recovery systems can do their job more efficiently. This is more of an indirect recovery tactic.
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If you’re in a period of over reaching, whether intentional or unintentional, a less aggressive massage treatment would serve you better to help manage some of the accumulated fatigue from hard training.
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Now you understand why taking exercise programming into consideration for massage treatments is important.

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🔴 Manual Soft-Tissue Therapy is Incredibly Effective!
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• Ischemic Compression
• Trigger Point Therapy
• Massage Therapy
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Pain shouldn’t be killed💊, it should be relieved💆🏼‍♂️. Our bodies use pain as an indicator to stop doing whatever is causing the pain.
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There are lots of different kinds of pain that correlate to different tissues.
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•🦴Bone injuries often hurt more immediately after the event causing the break and will be accompanied with swelling. Over time the pain will become a dull constant ache, and can be made worse with movement as the muscle pulls on the bone or when pressure is applied. A special test with a tuning fork can help identify micro fractures/fractures and an X-Ray should be taken to confirm.
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•Muscle pain can feel similar to bone injuries in that they can be a dull constant ache, the pain will always be worse when the muscle is moved with load (unless it is a complete tear). Muscle injuries can be the result of a specific event or an over due injury over time. Helping your healthcare practitioner understand your daily life is important in identifying injuries and creating a plan so they don’t return.
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•Ligament pain will present very similar to muscle pain and can be tricky to identify. Ligaments will hurt when you move the joint on your own, when moved with load and when moved passively. It will feel the same in all 3 tests because ligaments are a non contractile tissue. Ultra sounds can be used to confirm muscle, tendon and ligament damage.
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•Nerve pain is a very distinguished pain. Usually people describe it as lightening or fire sensation, it can also be numbness or paresethesia (tingling). The tricky part with nerve impingement/entrapment is that symptoms are exhibited at the very end of the nerve (fingers, toes) and the location of the “pinched” nerve has to be identified.
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As a massage therapist I can definitely help with a lot of injuries. My scope of practice is soft tissues (muscle, tendon, ligaments, fascia). I cannot fix broken bones, torn muscles, tendons or ligaments, but fortunately you can! Your body has all the mechanisms to fix damaged tissue, but it takes time! But I can help with some of the rehab. I cannot fix nerve damage but I can relieve nerves being compressed by tight muscles.

⚠️IT BAND SYNDROME⚠️

🔹Symptoms: pain in the lateral/outside of the knee when bending the knee.

🔹Causes: IT band syndrome is usually an overuse injury. It’s the most common in runners, cyclists gym bros that actually train legs.

🔹Treatment: The IT Band isn’t actually the issue here, that’s right, you don’t have a “tight ITBand” and foam rolling your IT Band until the end of time won’t fix it!

You’ll see in the picture that the IT Band connects to Glute Max, Glute Med and Tensor Fascia Latea. Begin to loosen and lengthen those muscles so they’re not pulling on the IT Band. With less tension being placed on the ITB it can move more freely over the lateral condyle of the knee which is where you’re getting the pain.

Happy squatting!

Got my certificate in the mail! M1 complete M2 coming in June!

Shannon came to with pain in her shoulder that was impeding her ability to train for her upcoming fitness competition.
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After an orthopaedic assessment of the shoulder we found a strain in one of the rotator cuff muscles (supraspinatus).
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Her treatment plan for the next hour included Graston Technique, Cupping, Soft Tissue Release and Deep Tissue massage on all the musculature attaching to the upper arm and shoulder blade. Then we focused on the tear using the graston instruments to break up the scar tissue around the tear.
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I’m happy to report that after 1 treatment, coupled with the proper home-care exercises Shannon is now training just as hard as she was before the injury!

.melissa83 came to me with shoulder pain that was impeding her ability to train for her upcoming competition.
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After an orthopaedic assessment of the shoulder we found a small tear in her rotator cuff (supraspinatus).
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Her treatment plan for the next hour was to perform cupping and deep tissue massage on all the muscles attaching to the upper arm, and Graston Technique on the supraspinatus to break apart the scar tissue where the tear occurred.
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The homecare I gave her was just as important as the treatment. She needed to stretch the supraspinatus and eccentrically load it so that the scar tissue would align with the muscle fibres.
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Being an athlete myself I understood where Shannon was coming from when she told me should couldn’t stop training. So, we gave her modified exercises to limit the amount of supraspinatus involvement during training.

What is Graston Technique⁉️
Well let me tell you‼️

•Graston Technique is simply Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM). Graston Technique is a science/evidence based modality used to treat soft tissue dysfunction.

•Soft tissues include muscle, tendon, ligament and connective tissues like fascia. However the benefits of Graston Technique don’t end there. The use of the instruments with light pressure on bone can help increase bone density.

•G.T. Compliments therapeutic massage therapy perfectly; sometimes some deep tissue work can be very painful. This is because the soft contact surface of the therapist hands against the soft tissue of the client requires more pressure as both soft tissues will compress and change shape.
When we use a hard surface like a Graston instrument that doesn’t compress or change shape, less pressure is required. Less pressure makes the treatment more tolerable with the same or more results.

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I did a thing! First of many certificates in soft tissue injury rehab and prevention!

Cryiax or Cross Fibre Frictions are used on scar tissue (collagen) formed in muscles, tendons, or ligaments to increase mobility.

These scar tissue adhesions most commonly present problems in the form of tendinitis.

These frictions break the scar tissue that has been laid down over injured soft tissue. The reason for this is so that when the healing process begins again we can tell the collagen fibres/scar tissue to lay down in the same direction as the muscle fibres through stretching and eccentric exercises allowing for increased mobility.

Collagen is extremely strong, and our body lays it down in a mesh fashion so that we don’t injure that tissue again, in doing so we lose mobility and can result in pain.