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05 Mar Limping To Walking, Astym Resolves Ankle Pain

Posted at 15:25h in Astym Stories

I wear many hats in my daily life. I’m a mother of two, three if you count my fur baby and I do count him as one of my children. I work full time in an office. I am a wife. I am also an...

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01 Mar Return To Running — Improved Achilles With Astym

Posted at 23:22h in Astym Stories

Training for my 3rd marathon I injured my Achilles in the tail end of the training program and was unable to do the race. I went through traditional physical therapy, however, returning to running kept on being put off and off. When I was just...

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21 Feb Astym – Runner’s Relief

Posted at 16:05h in Astym Stories

I started experiencing pain along the outside of my right knee and a tightness that prevented me from running downhill on one of my trail runs. The pain reoccurred every time I attempted to run in the following weeks. Rest, ice, and stretching were my...

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29 Nov Carpal Tunnel Syndrome — Advice From The Experts

Posted at 06:55h in Carpal Tunnel

If you experience wrist and hand pain with numbness or tingling into your hand you may have carpal tunnel syndrome. Other common symptoms include weakness in the thumb muscles, loss of hand motion and increased pain at night. Carpal tunnel syndrome affects 2-5% of the...

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17 Nov Hamstring Strain and Injury: Advice From The Experts, Part II

Posted at 14:06h in Clinical Tips & Tricks, For Athletes & Runners, Scar Tissue

In Part I of this entry, we discussed some of the most effective treatments for chronic hamstring strains and injuries. Despite being pain-free with typical daily activities, many athletes continue to have pain with their sport several months and even years after a hamstring injury....

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07 Nov Hamstring Strain and Injury: Advice From The Experts, Part I

Posted at 20:44h in Clinical Tips & Tricks, For Athletes & Runners, Scar Tissue

Those of you who suffer from chronic hamstring strains know how frustrating this recurrent injury can be. Hamstring strains and injuries typically occur with high-speed activities such as sprinting, soccer, or tennis. As physical therapists, we treat an increased number of hamstring strains as recreational...

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23 Oct What is Astym treatment?

Posted at 17:56h in About Astym

Astym treatment is a physical therapy treatment that regenerates healthy soft tissues (muscles, tendons, etc.), and eliminates or reduces unwanted scar tissue that may be causing pain or movement restrictions. Astym treatment is highly effective for restoring movement and reducing pain from soft tissue injury/dysfunction,...

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07 Oct Effective Treatment For Tennis Elbow Presented At Hand Surgeons’ Meeting

Posted at 21:02h in Tennis Elbow

A controlled clinical trial showing the effectiveness of Astym treatment for tennis elbow was presented at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand’s annual meeting. The study showed that Astym treatment was an effective tennis elbow therapy by resolving 78.3% of chronic lateral epicondylitis...

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04 Oct Chronic Tennis Elbow That Would Not Improve With Other Treatments Finally Gets Better With Astym

Posted at 18:12h in Plantar Fasciitis, Tennis Elbow

Several years ago, I had a client who was a mechanic with bilateral elbow lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow on both arms). He received traditional treatments of anti-inflammatories, iontophoresis/phonophoresis, modalities of e-stim and ice, stretching, and gentle strengthening exercises. He was unable to rest his elbows...

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07 Sep After Injury, Astym Therapy Got Me Running Again!

Posted at 22:32h in Astym Stories

After months of slow progress following an injury, Astym therapy became part of my physical therapy treatment program. Therapists made the treatments something I actually looked forward to and they encouraged physical activity between treatment sessions-something I also liked. I was discharged from PT on...

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