Soft Tissue Injuries Treatment and Chiropractic Care Clinic in Edmonton
by Dillon Patterson Article PublisherSoft tissue injury
(muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia) can occur from either a direct trauma
injury, like a slip or fall, car accident or through some athletic activity,
but they can also occur cumulatively from minor repetitive stresses that can
occur from simple everyday life activities. For example, things like typing on
your computer creating carpel tunnel syndrome, along with upper back and neck pain and tightness.
Either way the tissue
goes through the same stages of healing: inflammatory, proliferative and remodelling.
Repetitive strain
injuries manifest themselves as part of the Cumulative Injury Cycle as a broad
range of symptoms and conditions that may present themselves as: Numbness,
Tingling, Swelling, Weak, Tight, Aching and Painful.
On the histological
level, normal, non-injured tissues should be full length and run parallel to
one another, but in both traumas (acute and chronic) they cause micro tears
within the tissue. As the tissue heals, it heals not only in a shortened manner
but different collagen fibers are laid down in a cross bridged manner. You no
longer have a full length and parallel tissue. The injured site never achieves
the original histologic or mechanical features of a healthy tissue resulting in
abnormal tissue tone, texture and length. A shortened muscle or tissue is
actually a weaker muscle in that is now more susceptible to re-injury itself
and adds more friction, pressure and tension to all the surrounding tissues.
This is where the cumulative stress injuries start, and it becomes an ongoing
self-perpetuating cycle.
Your best treatment
options to date are through soft tissue mobilization, rehabilitation and
chiropractic joint manipulation. Soft tissue mobilizations goal is restore the
tissue tone, texture and length as close to its original structure and
function. This is done by releasing the cross-linked collagen bridges that are
formed and re-lengthening the tissue by manually applying a very specific
tension, pressure and torque while taking the tissue through its full range of
motion. This is best achieved from Active Release Techniques (ART), Graston Technique (GT). Soft tissue
mobilization shows promising results especially for the cost and time from a
patient perspective, but further data is necessary. Rehabilitation through
eccentrically loading and stretching the tissues the tensile forces help to
re-lengthen, re-align and strengthen the tissue. This has the best level of
evidence to date. Chiropractic joint manipulation, also known as the
adjustment, helps to make sure the proper alignment of the joints. Soft tissue
injuries can cause joints to become dysfunctional and this is when the joint
needs the specific high velocity, low amplitude thrust of the adjustment from a
chiropractor.
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