Integrative Therapy
Results-based, muscle therapy. No client's treatments are the same and can include Orthopedic & Sports Massage, Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM), Cupping Therapy, Vibration Therapy (TheraGun), Compex Neuromuscular Stimulation Therapy or TENS, Low-Level Laser Therapy and Kinesiology Taping. Each session is focused & tailored to:
~ Speed up recovery
~ Reduce your chance of injury
~ Improve performance
~ Reduce pain
~ Improve circulation
~ Improve mobility/ ROM
30 Minute ~ $50 / 60 Minute ~ $95 / 90 Minute ~ $135
Results-based, muscle therapy. No client's treatments are the same and can include Orthopedic & Sports Massage, Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM), Cupping Therapy, Vibration Therapy (TheraGun), Compex Neuromuscular Stimulation Therapy or TENS, Low-Level Laser Therapy and Kinesiology Taping. Each session is focused & tailored to:
~ Speed up recovery
~ Reduce your chance of injury
~ Improve performance
~ Reduce pain
~ Improve circulation
~ Improve mobility/ ROM
30 Minute ~ $50 / 60 Minute ~ $95 / 90 Minute ~ $135
: Orthopedic & Sports Massage :
Application of core techniques involving the Normalization of Soft Tissues Theory Application, including: trigger point therapy, myofascial release techniques, and cross-fiber friction massage. Application of lymphatic drainage, passive positional release, and progressive stretching. Progressive techniques such as post-isometric relaxation and muscle-energy, stretching techniques with my assistance, in addition to client education in self-stretching.
Application of core techniques involving the Normalization of Soft Tissues Theory Application, including: trigger point therapy, myofascial release techniques, and cross-fiber friction massage. Application of lymphatic drainage, passive positional release, and progressive stretching. Progressive techniques such as post-isometric relaxation and muscle-energy, stretching techniques with my assistance, in addition to client education in self-stretching.
: Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization :
Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM) is a process in which a set of hand held instruments are used to break down scar tissue and fascial restrictions in soft tissues (muscles, ligaments, tendons, fascia, and nerves). Once the damaged areas are detected, the instruments are used to deliver a controlled microtrauma to the affected area. The purpose of the microtrauma is to stimulate a local inflammatory response, which initiates reabsorption of excessive scar tissue and facilitates a cascade of healing activities. Adhesion's within the soft tissue that may have developed as a result of surgery, immobilization, or repetitive strain, are broken down, allowing the patient to regain function.
Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM) is a process in which a set of hand held instruments are used to break down scar tissue and fascial restrictions in soft tissues (muscles, ligaments, tendons, fascia, and nerves). Once the damaged areas are detected, the instruments are used to deliver a controlled microtrauma to the affected area. The purpose of the microtrauma is to stimulate a local inflammatory response, which initiates reabsorption of excessive scar tissue and facilitates a cascade of healing activities. Adhesion's within the soft tissue that may have developed as a result of surgery, immobilization, or repetitive strain, are broken down, allowing the patient to regain function.
: Cupping Therapy :
Cupping Therapy utilizes glass, plastic, or silicon cups to create suction or negative pressure on the body surface. These cups are moved over the skin using gliding, shaking, popping and rotating techniques while gently pulling up on the cup, and are parked for a short time (5 – 20 minutes) to facilitate joint mobilization or soft tissue release. This suction can reach deep into the soft tissue or can work superficially to pull inflammation and toxins toward the surface so that the skin and lymphatic system can readily eliminate them. Scar tissues often release quickly, despite the age of the injury or keloid tendencies.
One of the most amazing aspects of this technique is the "separation" that the vacuum produces in up to four inches of tissue layers. This enables water absorption and renewed blood flow to undernourished and dehydrated tissues. The suction cups rapidly facilitate rigid soft tissue release, loosen and lift connective tissue, break up and drain stagnation while increasing blood and lymph flow to skin and muscles in ways not possible using compression.
Cupping Therapy utilizes glass, plastic, or silicon cups to create suction or negative pressure on the body surface. These cups are moved over the skin using gliding, shaking, popping and rotating techniques while gently pulling up on the cup, and are parked for a short time (5 – 20 minutes) to facilitate joint mobilization or soft tissue release. This suction can reach deep into the soft tissue or can work superficially to pull inflammation and toxins toward the surface so that the skin and lymphatic system can readily eliminate them. Scar tissues often release quickly, despite the age of the injury or keloid tendencies.
One of the most amazing aspects of this technique is the "separation" that the vacuum produces in up to four inches of tissue layers. This enables water absorption and renewed blood flow to undernourished and dehydrated tissues. The suction cups rapidly facilitate rigid soft tissue release, loosen and lift connective tissue, break up and drain stagnation while increasing blood and lymph flow to skin and muscles in ways not possible using compression.
: TheraGun® :
The TheraGun’s AmpBIT uses a strong percussive force on the muscle that creates intense blood flow to help the muscle recover without the pain normally associated with deep muscle treatment. The TheraGun uses a unique combination of frequency and amplitude that inhibits the brain from sensing pain signals from the muscle, allowing deeper and longer muscle treatment. The increased muscular blood flow caused by the TheraGun produces numerous benefits, such as increased mobility, stretching of the muscle and removing muscle knots and cramps.
The TheraGun increases range of motion, reduces pain immediately, restores function and prevents injury by keeping blood in the area being treated or manipulated. The TheraGun helps maximize function and improve proper mobility. It also helps improve flexibility, coordination and balance, and restore muscle function. It prevents the progression of symptoms and improves the quality of patients’ lives.
The TheraGun’s AmpBIT uses a strong percussive force on the muscle that creates intense blood flow to help the muscle recover without the pain normally associated with deep muscle treatment. The TheraGun uses a unique combination of frequency and amplitude that inhibits the brain from sensing pain signals from the muscle, allowing deeper and longer muscle treatment. The increased muscular blood flow caused by the TheraGun produces numerous benefits, such as increased mobility, stretching of the muscle and removing muscle knots and cramps.
The TheraGun increases range of motion, reduces pain immediately, restores function and prevents injury by keeping blood in the area being treated or manipulated. The TheraGun helps maximize function and improve proper mobility. It also helps improve flexibility, coordination and balance, and restore muscle function. It prevents the progression of symptoms and improves the quality of patients’ lives.
: Compex :
The Compex Muscle Stimulator is a device that provides EMS (electric muscle stimulation), which can be utilized for a variety of purposes within a treatment plan. It uses specifically placed, reusable, adhesive pads to send electric impulses into desired muscle groups leading to an involuntary contraction of the particular muscles being treated. There are a variety of different programs included on the unit to help supplement a patient’s treatment, specific to the nature of their condition. Some different settings include muscle potentiation, strength, endurance, recovery, and massage, just to name a few. These programs are designed to stimulate the area with distinct electric frequency patterns, generating different responses of the muscle tissue. This is important because different demands may be required of the muscle if you are recovering from surgery than if you are trying to reduce an established compensation, or just trying to alleviate soreness after an intense workout. The Compex is unique because stimulates the motor nerve, causing actual contraction of the muscle group as if it is being worked through physical activity. This is a valuable tool that can be used in an array of ways for many different conditions.
The Compex TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) are tiny electrical pulses delivered through a device which can help alleviate pain through two different means. By stimulating the sensory nerves TENS produces high levels of endorphins to help ease body pain. The other method of pain relief, known as GATE Control Theory, works to block pain signals to the brain. TENS can stimulate the sensory nerves differently, activating different natural pain relief mechanisms within the body. The two primary pain relief mechanisms are the Pain Gate Mechanism and the Endogenous Opioid System.The Pain Gate Mechanism, also known as the Gate Control Theory, uses a high frequency stimulation to activate specific sensory fibers. When these fibers are stimulated it releases a non-painful stimulus that closes the “gate” that send the pain signals to the brain. The alternative method is using a low frequency TENS program to target the Endogenous Opioid System. Through this system you are stimulating different sensory fibers that produce an opioid effect, which helps to provide pain relief and reduces the pain signals sent to the brain.
The Compex Muscle Stimulator is a device that provides EMS (electric muscle stimulation), which can be utilized for a variety of purposes within a treatment plan. It uses specifically placed, reusable, adhesive pads to send electric impulses into desired muscle groups leading to an involuntary contraction of the particular muscles being treated. There are a variety of different programs included on the unit to help supplement a patient’s treatment, specific to the nature of their condition. Some different settings include muscle potentiation, strength, endurance, recovery, and massage, just to name a few. These programs are designed to stimulate the area with distinct electric frequency patterns, generating different responses of the muscle tissue. This is important because different demands may be required of the muscle if you are recovering from surgery than if you are trying to reduce an established compensation, or just trying to alleviate soreness after an intense workout. The Compex is unique because stimulates the motor nerve, causing actual contraction of the muscle group as if it is being worked through physical activity. This is a valuable tool that can be used in an array of ways for many different conditions.
The Compex TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) are tiny electrical pulses delivered through a device which can help alleviate pain through two different means. By stimulating the sensory nerves TENS produces high levels of endorphins to help ease body pain. The other method of pain relief, known as GATE Control Theory, works to block pain signals to the brain. TENS can stimulate the sensory nerves differently, activating different natural pain relief mechanisms within the body. The two primary pain relief mechanisms are the Pain Gate Mechanism and the Endogenous Opioid System.The Pain Gate Mechanism, also known as the Gate Control Theory, uses a high frequency stimulation to activate specific sensory fibers. When these fibers are stimulated it releases a non-painful stimulus that closes the “gate” that send the pain signals to the brain. The alternative method is using a low frequency TENS program to target the Endogenous Opioid System. Through this system you are stimulating different sensory fibers that produce an opioid effect, which helps to provide pain relief and reduces the pain signals sent to the brain.
: Low-Level Laser Therapy :
Low-Level Laser Therapy is a source of light energy. This light energy consists of small packets of energy, called photons, which travel at a certain wavelength that penetrate the skin and cause an energy reaction within the deeper tissues of the body. The low level laser provides a specific amount of energy that causes “biostimulation” of the body’s own healing mechanisms.
The wavelength of the laser energy determines how deeply the laser beam will penetrate. The infrared laser at Carbon Valley Integrative Therapies has the best penetration into tissues to achieve the deepest absorption of energy, thereby allowing muscles and joints to be treated effectively.
Low level laser therapy is safe because cells have a natural ability to resist over-stimulation. Therapeutic lasers utilize a wavelength of light in the 630 – 905 nm range, known as the “therapeutic window”. In this range, the photon energy is absorbed least by the skin providing the greatest penetration of photons into the deeper tissues, like the muscles and joints. It is this principle which provides the ability to place the energy harmlessly into tissue, biostimulating that tissue into an accelerated rate of healing. In fact, most patients feel nothing during the treatment.
Low-Level Laser Therapy is a source of light energy. This light energy consists of small packets of energy, called photons, which travel at a certain wavelength that penetrate the skin and cause an energy reaction within the deeper tissues of the body. The low level laser provides a specific amount of energy that causes “biostimulation” of the body’s own healing mechanisms.
The wavelength of the laser energy determines how deeply the laser beam will penetrate. The infrared laser at Carbon Valley Integrative Therapies has the best penetration into tissues to achieve the deepest absorption of energy, thereby allowing muscles and joints to be treated effectively.
Low level laser therapy is safe because cells have a natural ability to resist over-stimulation. Therapeutic lasers utilize a wavelength of light in the 630 – 905 nm range, known as the “therapeutic window”. In this range, the photon energy is absorbed least by the skin providing the greatest penetration of photons into the deeper tissues, like the muscles and joints. It is this principle which provides the ability to place the energy harmlessly into tissue, biostimulating that tissue into an accelerated rate of healing. In fact, most patients feel nothing during the treatment.
: Kinesiology Taping :
Kinesiology tape or as it has become known, “K-Tape”, is primarily used to treat pain. The tape essentially works as a communication system between the area of pain and the brain (central nervous system). It does this by providing sensory input to the skin. Our skin is the largest organ in our body and is often overlooked when treating pain. Our skin is one of our primary sensor systems that alert us to danger. The tape works by providing sensory input through subcutaneous (below the skin) free nerve endings. When applied to the skin, the tape will provide a biomechanical lift as well as recoil from the stretch of the tape. This sensory input works to override pain sensations being signaled from the area to the brain.
By providing different degrees of tape tension, we can deliver a new sensory input. Tape tension with kinesiology tape is not like any other type of taping (think white athletic tape on an ankle sprain). Kinesiology tape is applied over and around ‘target tissues’ to encourage movement and to restore fresh blood to the tissues. Athletic taping is designed to restrict mobility and to mobilize a joint. This is not to say that athletic taping is ineffective, but rather that kinesiology taping is a different adjunct to the treatment of injuries.
The tape also functions by providing a biomechanical lift to the skin. In doing so, the tape can help increase the amount of space just beneath the skin (interstitial space) where there may be swelling. By doing this, fluid is moved out of the tissue spaces through the mild compressive force of both the tape and muscles, acting as an external pumping agent. Essentially assisting the body’s natural means of eliminating waste from the tissues spaces (Lymphatic System). When the swelling is reduced, less pressure is being placed on the free nerve endings beneath the skin, therefore the noxious signals once being sent to the brain are also reduced, signaling a new message to the brain.
The use of kinesiology tape can be an extremely effective means of coping with pain. When applied correctly, kinesiology tape can prolong the effectiveness on many other rehab solutions, making it a great partner in the treatment process.
Kinesiology tape or as it has become known, “K-Tape”, is primarily used to treat pain. The tape essentially works as a communication system between the area of pain and the brain (central nervous system). It does this by providing sensory input to the skin. Our skin is the largest organ in our body and is often overlooked when treating pain. Our skin is one of our primary sensor systems that alert us to danger. The tape works by providing sensory input through subcutaneous (below the skin) free nerve endings. When applied to the skin, the tape will provide a biomechanical lift as well as recoil from the stretch of the tape. This sensory input works to override pain sensations being signaled from the area to the brain.
By providing different degrees of tape tension, we can deliver a new sensory input. Tape tension with kinesiology tape is not like any other type of taping (think white athletic tape on an ankle sprain). Kinesiology tape is applied over and around ‘target tissues’ to encourage movement and to restore fresh blood to the tissues. Athletic taping is designed to restrict mobility and to mobilize a joint. This is not to say that athletic taping is ineffective, but rather that kinesiology taping is a different adjunct to the treatment of injuries.
The tape also functions by providing a biomechanical lift to the skin. In doing so, the tape can help increase the amount of space just beneath the skin (interstitial space) where there may be swelling. By doing this, fluid is moved out of the tissue spaces through the mild compressive force of both the tape and muscles, acting as an external pumping agent. Essentially assisting the body’s natural means of eliminating waste from the tissues spaces (Lymphatic System). When the swelling is reduced, less pressure is being placed on the free nerve endings beneath the skin, therefore the noxious signals once being sent to the brain are also reduced, signaling a new message to the brain.
The use of kinesiology tape can be an extremely effective means of coping with pain. When applied correctly, kinesiology tape can prolong the effectiveness on many other rehab solutions, making it a great partner in the treatment process.