Back Pain-Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation

(Newswire.net— July 29, 2019) Other, CT —

Why Should You Care about IASTM? Let’s define IASTM first. It stands for Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation. If you have a back problem you will want to read more about IASTM. There are several variations of tissue manipulation. Oriental Medicine uses cupping in a similar way as IASTM.   Another popular variation is known as Graston. For our purposes, these are all similar and achieve similar goals.

A mechanical back problem usually has a soft tissue component. From my experience, these soft tissue components involve restricted tissue motion resulting in fibrous adhesions in the fascia. The fascia is the covering on the muscles that are nerve-rich. When there are repetitive forces placed on the muscles the fascia develops adhesions that act like scar tissue on a smaller scale.

 The adhesions cause increased pain due to the increased friction when fascia comes into contact with adjacent fascia. Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation helps to break down the adhesions thereby reducing the pain caused by friction. It is a helpful treatment but only one tool in a full toolbox.

 The Back Pain Project uses several tools to achieve a pain-free back. The complete program culls from many healing modalities to bring about lasting relief from back pain. As far as we know The Back Pain Project is the most thorough program out there for treating bad backs. Dr.Brian McKay has been treating bad low backs for over 28 years. Over 20 years ago he was among the earliest adopters of non-surgical spinal decompression. Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation is a valuable adjunct to spinal decompression when treating back pain. Hopefully, you agree that more treatment is more beneficial to eliminate back pain.