ART (Active Release Therapy). Anyone with experience ?

[SAB]

Hi all,

just wondering if anyone has any experience with this form of physical therapy ?

http://www.activerelease.com/

I had heard some testimonials that interested me (Frank Shamrock - claims it is doing wonders for old fighting injuries, the other was Stuart McRobert - in his new book raves about it)

I used the website and found there was someone qualified in Melbourne, Australia were I live so decided to check it out.

Was a really interesting session (first session was diagnosis only). He kept talking about stability and mobility issues in various joints and muscles and was explaining where I have tension chains in my body.

To me it sounded similar to rmax materials. Was very interesting.

Has anyone else tried ART ?

[Joseph David]

Steve,

I haven't tried that specific flavor of active work. It is however very similar to the premise of using activation to reset the muscle spindles. This has few profound effects on the CNS. First it resets the homeostatis of the proproceptive web. What the body believes is occuring in its structure to what actually is requires a feed back loop so that it can compare notes, so to speak, and make adjustments based on that information. This is actually a simular process in Bio-Mechanical exercises in relation to the nervous system. The other valuable aspect of active work is that it clears SMA and inhibated segments in the muscularture.

[StuMcD]

Hi Andrew,

ART is awesome. In fact, I am currently undergoing treatment with it now for a rather severe back injury.

My practitioner is a Chiropractor as well but uses almost no Chiropractic on my injury at all. I started getting my function back and my pain decreased starting with the very first session and I haven't looked back.

This was after a few months of Chiro and Physio that had no effect but to increase my level of discomfort (Chiro) and offer a couple of days of pain relief at a time Physio.

I believe my ART practitioner saved me from a spinal fusion. Coach Sonnon made the suggestion that I find myself an ART practitioner and it was a very good move indeed. Thanks Scott.
Cheers,
Stu.

[SAB]

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Really looking forward to my next session where he'll begin some of the treatments. Should be interesting.

[Blasto]

Regarding ART -- I was able to find a very talented ART practitioner on Ventura Blvd in Los Angeles following a weightlifting injury; I was doing a 250 lb. deadlift while distracted (not properly warmed up, TV on spewing stupidity) and felt a sacral nerve pop. I spent the next ten days waking up with tremendous pain shooting down from my back to my left calf.

This chiro was able to isolate the trauma in my piriformis, a deep muscle, and work out the adhesion create my the trauma. Apparently, about 15% of the population have nerves that go straight through this muscle. After my first of three treatments, I was able to sleep throughout the night, and by the end of the third, I was almost entirely pain-free.

Rehab has been kind of slow; my left leg was numb and virtually powerless for about six weeks, but I'm back with my deadlift routine of MWF, 10 sets X 5 reps, but only at 170 lbs., with a 10 lb increment a month for the duration of 2006. I'm going slow with this one.

My girlfriend has had similar success with a shoulder injury. It's the best treatment I've had, and I'm 45.

[Blasto]

Regarding ART -- I was able to find a very talented ART practitioner on Ventura Blvd in Los Angeles following a weightlifting injury; I was doing a 250 lb. deadlift while distracted (not properly warmed up, TV on spewing stupidity) and felt a sacral nerve pop. I spent the next ten days waking up with tremendous pain shooting down from my back to my left calf.

This chiro was able to isolate the trauma in my piriformis, a deep muscle, and work out the adhesion created by the trauma. Apparently, about 15% of the population have nerves that go straight through this muscle. After my first of three treatments, I was able to sleep throughout the night, and by the end of the third, I was almost entirely pain-free.

Rehab has been kind of slow; my left leg was numb and virtually powerless for about six weeks, but I'm back with my deadlift routine of MWF, 10 sets X 5 reps, but only at 170 lbs., with a 10 lb increment a month for the duration of 2006. I'm going slow with this one.

My girlfriend has had similar success with a shoulder injury. It's the best treatment I've had, and I'm 45.

[Ryan Murdock]

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