Myoskeletal Therapy
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Clinical/Therapeutic Myoskeletal Therapy
Looking to get your chronic or short-term muscle pain under control? Our myoskeletal therapy clinic in Bedford, NH focuses on getting you back to what you love doing as quickly as possible and without drugs. Many of our patients feel their pain diminish after their very first full treatment visit. Long-term, complicated pain issues may take significantly longer. But our goals are the same as yours: Reduce or eliminate your pain as soon as possible.
Preventive Maintenance – Incredibly Important
Many patients have postural problems without pain. Manchester-Bedford Myoskeletal will help you with these, too. We specialize in working with skeletal alignment, posture, and dysfunctional movement patterns before pain begins to affect your life.
How Can We Help You?
Postural problems, injury, and pathological conditions can develop muscle compensation patterns that may cause pain. Our techniques aim to improve your posture and correct muscle compensation when desired, thereby preventing pain from happening later on or by changing the way your brain perceives the pain you have now.
Our goal is to search out and reduce or eliminate the causes of your muscle pain using specialized assessments, hands-on, and corrective exercise techniques. You will work to retrain and strengthen the soft tissues of your body to get rid of compensations which create and allow muscle pain to occur. We educate YOU on how to do this at home so you can become pain-free sooner and more permanently. And in so doing, we make every effort to balance muscles affecting the pull on your skeleton to allow your body to heal itself. Click this link to learn more about how we work.
People come to Manchester-Bedford Myoskeletal for help with most types of musculoskeletal problems, conditions, pathology, and diagnoses. Nearly all of our patients have had some sort of prior intervention. Examples are simple analgesics or prescription medication, other forms of conservative therapy such as chiropractic, physical therapy, acupuncture, or massage therapy, or more invasive procedures such as corticosteroid or Botox injections, spinal or soft tissue surgical procedures.
Sometimes a confirmed diagnosis is not reached for some reason or the list of differential diagnoses is extensive or, as is often the case, idiopathic (cause unknown).
Some common complaints and variations we’ve worked with are listed below. Remember that pain is often not tied directly to posture or degenerative processes. This is another reason why we do not necessarily follow the pain. One person, for instance, may have spinal disc bulges but senses no pain at all while another person has a small bulge and lives with chronic pain. Do you or does anyone you know have any of the following conditions, with or without pain?
- Forward head and/or forward neck posture, slumped shoulders, caved chest, “winged” shoulder blades, a pronounced curve in the spine of the upper back (hyperkyphosis). These are typical of Upper Crossed Syndrome
- Straight / flat neck and loss of cervical lordosis
- Excessive curve in the lower back (hyperlordosis), protruding abdomen, and markedly prominent pelvic tilt. These are typical of Lower Crossed Syndrome
- Functional Scoliosis, which likely developed well after age 15
- Difficulty taking long steps in stride (looks like you’re shuffling), with or without pain
- Functional leg length discrepancy (see also Pelvic Tilt)
- Range of motion problems in neck, shoulder, hip, and back
- Muscle pain, “cricks”, “slept wrong”
- Neck pain, headaches, jaw pain
- Tingling and/or numbness in fingers and/or arms (Thoracic Outlet Syndrome)
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Elbow pain (“Golfer’s” or “Tennis” Elbow)
- Sciatic pain (buttock pain, sciatic nerve pain, Piriformis Syndrome)
- Groin pain
- Sacroiliac (SI joint) dysfunction and pain
- Plantar fasciitis/fasciosis
- Scar tissue/fascial adhesions
- Improper muscle pattern firing order
Read more about common problems and diagnosed conditions and pathologies Manchester-Bedford Myoskeletal LLC can help with.
Why Are We This Way?
In a big way, society is to blame. We are a flexion-addicted society and it shows. Worldwide research says the most significant reason for loss of work is back pain! Take a look at the posture of people around you and you’ll see why.
Furthermore, not all our patients have posture problems. Life happens and it happens to everyone. Muscle strains and injuries from sports, working out, repetitive movements, overwork, carrying kids, laptops, shoulder bags, working at a desk every day, spending a lot of time on smartphones, accidents, injuries, slips, trips and falls, poor sleeping habits, eyestrain, stress and anxiety, emotional overloads, etc. We are all susceptible to these kinds of muscle pain just going about our daily lives. We don’t have to live with the pain. Don’t buy into the hype of taking OTC meds to mask your pain symptoms. Get out of pain without drugs!
Look in the mirror!
I see crooked people everywhere; most don’t even know why they have pain. Most don’t realize their muscle imbalances are compensating, and thereby contribute to their aches and pains. CrossFit and other fitness enthusiasts may not realize certain inhibited muscles affect their form, efficiency, and function. Our Bedford, NH massage therapy clinic can help reduce or eliminate your functional postural pain and muscle dysfunction and get you back to living life.
Your Bedford Myoskeletal Therapy Clinic
What should YOU do? Click the blue “Schedule Appointment Online” button in the upper right corner of any page on our website. You can choose a Telephone or In-Office Consultation, or book your First Visit Assessment and we’ll call you. You’ve probably already tried ordinary massage therapy. You may have also seen chiropractors, doctors, specialists, or other health professionals, but haven’t had the relief you were looking for. Give us a call. And get ready for something…completely different.