Myotherapistsspecialize in management of muscular and joint injury. They have a wide range of modalities. They use soft and deep tissue massage. They advise their patients to do corrective and stretching exercises.
Trigger points: Whilemyotherapy treatment, they only interact with trigger points which have little part of the muscles, that are always contracted and do not relax anymore. They aim the needle at trigger point and induce a response that is going to eliminate trigger points, lengthen the muscles and increase the flexibility.
Athletes: Most of the people who go through these types of complicationsare athletes, long runners, triathletes and general public. They ensure that all the muscular system is functioning at its base. Muscles need to be recovered after a long training session. They do bit of work on muscles to relax the muscles, increase their range of motion and flexibility without working too deep so muscles do not get soar. Lactic acid is flushed for this purpose.
In case of injury, therapy can be aimed to reduce scar tissue, break the cross-linkage to shed the muscles.
Myotherapy and other disclipnes: Myotherapists work in collaboration with all the other disciples such as osteologists, physiologists to make sure that they made a program for all the athletes so they can reach the peak. There are so many ways to treat muscle injuries these days so choosing highly effective course of action is the best therapy. They take a holistic approach to treat musculoskeletal dysfunctions such as muscular nerve or joint pain.
Educational qualification: The best part of being a myotherapist is that you are aimed to serve people, let them do what they do and give a new life to athlete every day. The 3 year course of Bachelor’s Science in myotherapy. It is quite an intense degree, 39 subjects. The first year incorporates a lot of Health Sciences, secondand third year dealing with real people and dealing with kids and public.
It is areally rewarding job.
If one wants to become a myotherapist, he or she has to obtain bachelor’s degree, be a social personality, and have interest in human body.
Myotherapy Treatment: Myotherapists enable a person for complete range of movement, deal with little pain and daily dose of work and athletes with everyday injuries to go continue what they like to do. Muscular injuries can make you suffer from emotional stress as well so tell your DPT doctor about emotional therapy as well so that he give you the best therapy that suits your complication.
Spasm cycle:Trigger points respond to brain in spasm and so the spasm cycle continues. Myotherapists break this pain spasm cycle by getting rid of trigger points. Muscles have amemory so they must be reminded about spasm once trigger points have been gotten rid of.Patient must work in full collaboration with myotherapist to get rid of the pain or at least learn how to manage that pain.
Homework for patients: Patients with such complications are also given homework of doing different exercises 3-4 times a day to relax the muscles. It takes only a couple of minutes to do these exercises.
Contact us
Suncoast Myotherapy
Address: 6/18 MAIN DRIVE
BOKARINA, 4575, QLD
Phone: 0405 187 597
Email: suncoastmyotherapy@gmail.com
Website: suncoastmyotherapy.com.au
