Fitness: How sports injuries can be helped with a revolutionary physiotherapy technique
A REVOLUTIONARY treatment technique used in physiotherapy is the use of an instrument or a tool, which enables the physiotherapist to locate and treat an area of soft tissue dysfunction. The official term is instrument assisted soft tissue mobilisation or IASTM. The technique itself is said to have evolved from a traditional Chinese medicine technique known as Gua Sha. However, Gua Sha uses the principle of Meridians to move the bad “Qi” out of the body. You could perhaps say that IASTM is a modernised version of Gua Sha using anatomical reasoning. IASTM is growing rapidly in popularity due to its effectiveness and efficiency in treating musculoskeletal conditions while remaining non-invasive compared to other treatment techniques such as trigger-point dry-needling or acupuncture.
