Graston Technique in Gilbert AZ?

GT Instruments

The Graston Technique® allows us to better detect and treat these areas because it uses a stainless steel instrument that glides along a patient’s muscles, tendons or ligaments, with the right amount of pressure to detect just where the scar tissue or restrictions are located.

When these knots or bands of scar tissue are encountered, both the clinician and the patient sense a restriction, almost like a speed bump or granular feeling. The instrument can then be used to “break up” this restriction or adhesion. Stretching exercises are used to promote the re-alignment of the fibers into the normal pattern of healthy tissue.

Benefits

The benefit of the Graston Technique is not only in the detection of restrictions and adhesions but also in the amount of improvement that takes place in a short amount of time.

The body parts are connected in what is referred to as the kinetic chain. The instruments allow the clinician to follow that chain, effectively uncovering the cause of the problem, then treating the cause and the area of the pain or restriction.

Graston Technique
The unaided hand is hard-pressed to detect and break up as much scar tissue or follow the kinetic chain, as effectively or efficiently as the stainless steel instruments can.

Patients usually receive two treatments per week for four to five weeks. Most patients have a positive response within two to three treatments.

GT decreases the overall time of treatment, fosters faster rehabilitation/recovery, reduces the need for anti-inflammatory medication, and resolves chronic conditions thought to be permanent.

If you have not experienced the Graston Technique® yet you have lingering discomfort or stiffness, please ask us whether you may be helped by this effective treatment.