Manual Therapy in Suwanee, GA

Summary

Manual Therapy

Stop living with painful limitations. If you are suffering from tender muscles or loss of mobility due to excessive use, injury, or post-surgery, it is time to do something about it. At Back in the Game in Suwanee, GA, our team of professional physical therapists has expertise with manual therapies to correct a wide range of common musculoskeletal complaints. Whether you are dealing with a chronic or recent condition, manual therapy can help.

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About Manual Therapy

Manual therapies encompass a wide range of hands-on treatments that focus on manipulating joints and soft tissue in specific ways. A few of the hands-on techniques a physical therapist may use as part of your rehab are:

Passive stretching involves keeping muscles stretched for an extended amount of time with the assistance of a physical therapist.
Joint manipulation is the precise application of pressure on the joint through pushing or pulling motions.
Manual traction uses gentle movements to create space to help naturally realign joints, discs, and bones.
Joint mobilization uses a series of controlled oscillating movements to increase the joint's range of motion over time.
Trigger point release by applying pressure to specific knots or trigger points found in muscles and fascia.
Friction massage breaks up scar tissue and reduces pain through vigorous massage.

How to Determine if You Need Manual Therapy?

You are in control of your body. Luckily, in Georgia, most people with private health insurance do not need a prescription from their primary care physician to see a physical therapist. That is good news if you have any of these conditions that can benefit from manual therapies:

Back and neck pain or stiffness
Headaches
Fibromyalgia
Temporal mandibular joint (TMJ)
Joint pain
Sports injuries
Whiplash
Recovering from a surgery
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

If your insurance does not allow you to have PT without seeing your doctor first, it can still be worth talking to your doctor to see if manual therapy may benefit you.

Benefits of Manual Therapy

Manual therapy is a natural approach to eliminating pain, healing the body, and improving functionality. These highly effective techniques are non-invasive, drug-free, and tend to be well-tolerated by most patients. Some of the most common benefits people see from manual therapy include the following:

Reduction or elimination of muscular pain.
Easing tense muscles and inducing relaxation
Increase in blood flow
Reduction of soft-tissue inflammation
Improvement of range of motion and loosening of stiff joints.

Why Choose Manual Therapy?

The best reason to choose manual therapy as part of your physical rehabilitation is that it works. Many of our patients are amazed at their results after just a few PT sessions.

Whether you choose manual therapy as your primary form of rehab or as a part of a multi-modality treatment program, you can trust that at Back in the Game, we are focused on you. From your first day of physical therapy until you've completed rehab, we always use a completely customized approach to treating all our patients.