What is myotherapy?
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According to the Australian Natural Therapies Association (ANTA), "Myotherapy draws upon Western medical principles of anatomy, physiology, biomechanics and pathology. It includes a range of manual therapies to ease a client’s pain, including soft tissue therapy, joint mobilisation, myofascial cupping therapy, dry needling, corrective and rehabilitative exercise, taping, and prescriptive advice on muscle and pain management."
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A client's perspective of treatment at Pain Free Fitness:
Emma is unreal and so very talented at what she does. My neck was so incredibly tender and in just one appointment Emma managed to release most of my pain. Emma is extremely knowledgeable and has even taught me a few things about my own body I didn’t even notice/know. Definitely will be something I do for myself to make it part of my self care routine to go back every few months! Georgia
Years after rupturing a tendon in my shoulder I had become accustomed to the chronic pain and resigned to the injury impeding my progress on my fitness journey. After receiving various different prognoses from medical professionals, I saw a Facebook post from Pain Free Fitness and decided to give it a try. In just a few visits, Kathy was able to release the tension in my shoulder to enable me to gain more range of movement than I ever thought would be possible. She has provided me with so much valuable information on how to manage my body to get the most out of it and proceed with my fitness. I can’t say strongly enough how Kathy has improved my ability, and reduced my pain and I’m so glad that I took the step of seeing her. Belinda
What is remedial massage therapy?
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ANTA say that "a Remedial Massage Therapist uses systematic assessment and treatment of the muscles, tendons, ligaments and connective tissues of the body, to assist in pain, injury and rehabilitation. To understand how to treat patients, a remedial therapist must know anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology." Just like a Myotherapist, Remedial Therapists also use a combination of soft tissue therapy, joint mobilisation, myofascial cupping therapy, dry needling, corrective and rehabilitative exercise, taping, and prescriptive advice to reduce pain.
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What can we help you with?
Massage and Myotherapists can treat a variety of joint and muscle pain, and we are experts in helping active people get back to training without pain. Some common conditions we successfully treat every day in clinic are:
Click here for a list of conditions we treat.
- low back/disc related pain, hip pain and radiating sciatica
- shoulder pain, bursitis, impingements and pain radiating into the arm
- runners experiencing hip, knee and shin pain.
Click here for a list of conditions we treat.
Often pain stems from an underlying protective mechanism that the body has initiated in response to instability around a joint. The brain signals muscle spasm to lock down the joint to prevent injury, and this results in changes to the overall mechanics around the joint and across the body. It starts as a feeling of tension in one group of muscles, and can end up causing pain at that joint, or somewhere else entirely.
Our assessment focuses on the cause of your pain - so don't be surprised if you come in with neck pain and we do some work on your hips! But once the cause is dealt with, we can more easily melt away the symptoms and send you off pain free - and in the knowledge that the pain won't be coming back.
To make the change permanent, we also need to fight the cause of the original problem. Where we identify that there is a mechanical cause or an underlying weakness, once you are pain-free you start strengthening the muscles to prevent recurrence. We don't do this in isolation - muscles need to be strengthened in conjucntion with the other muscles they work in teams with. Otherwise, the same patterning will happen again and pain will come back again.
Our assessment focuses on the cause of your pain - so don't be surprised if you come in with neck pain and we do some work on your hips! But once the cause is dealt with, we can more easily melt away the symptoms and send you off pain free - and in the knowledge that the pain won't be coming back.
To make the change permanent, we also need to fight the cause of the original problem. Where we identify that there is a mechanical cause or an underlying weakness, once you are pain-free you start strengthening the muscles to prevent recurrence. We don't do this in isolation - muscles need to be strengthened in conjucntion with the other muscles they work in teams with. Otherwise, the same patterning will happen again and pain will come back again.
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