Active Release Technique

To understand the benefits of ART, we must first understand how internal scarring affects the soft tissues. When muscles, fascia, tendons, nerves, blood vessels, or ligaments experience damage from a sports injury, auto accident injury, or chronic strain problem, the body responds by creating scar tissue. Scar tissue is meant to immobilize the injured structure so it cannot come to greater harm while it’s trying to heal, but sometimes scar tissue grows out of control, forming lumps, known as adhesions, that trap tissues or even join them together. Adhesions can cause chronic pain, stiffness, and neurological symptoms. To make matters more complicated, adhesions often go undetected by standard diagnostic techniques, such as X-ray imaging.