Pain to Progress: Your Journey to Relief Starts Here

Cupping is best described as an alternative form of soft tissue mobilization. Cupping offers our tissues a different type of force than is typically applied to them. When you have a massage for example, the therapist is pushing down or across the skins’ surface thus exhibiting a compressive or translatory force to the tissues. With cupping, the forces on the tissues are up and away from the body thus producing a decompressive force. This is why cupping can be so effective. Your tissues are always getting pushed, pulled or compressed through movement and just from the weight of gravity alone. With cupping, you are getting a type of force that the tissues hardly ever get which can equal RELIEF!

Spinal manipulation involves manual techniques designed to relieve joint pressure, restore spinal alignment, and take pressure off spinal nerves. In the process, you get relief from your pain and you support your body’s natural healing ability. This is one of the most common manual techniques for restoring spinal movement. Your provider positions your body in a specific way, then uses their hand to apply a short (lowamplitude), quick (high-velocity) push over the vertebral joint. Your provider carefully treats one joint at a time to ensure optimal results. In many cases, you hear an audible pop as pressure releases in the area.

Instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization is a noninvasive treatment that resolves soft tissue dysfunction using specialized metal tools. The experienced providers have extensive training with the most advanced tools and strategies, including FMT blades, fibrosis release and myofascial stretching (FRAMS). Issues like muscle knots and internal scar tissue can lead to soreness, pain, restricted movement, and other problems, but instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization offers effective relief.

Body Tempering (BT) is a soft tissue treatment technique developed by Donnie Thompson in 2014 that involves deep and heavy pressure to muscles using weighted steel cylinders that are held statically on or moved slowly along the length of a muscle. It is common for people to use foam rollers, lacrosse balls etc. to roll on and over tissues that feel tight or sore in an effort to improve the way they feel and/or function. Body Tempering is working on this same principle but with exponentially greater effect. The weight is much heavier and the patient can lay passively while the weights are passed over them vs. having to actively hold yourself in an awkward position to get the job done such is the case with foam rolling. The result is considerably greater with minimal effort by the patient.