An Integrative Approach to Physical Therapy
Integrative Manual Therapy (IMT) is a combination of thousands of techniques, and represents a huge step forward in manual therapy care. IMT therapies deal with a broad scope of tissues and symptoms and is extremely effective in the treatment of many physical ailments. . Often when receiving treatment, patients want to know exactly what is is being done, and IMT technology gives one the ability to answer those questions.
The following is an explanation of IMT:
The focus of IMT is on removing mechanical strains from every tissue in the body. Removing this strain or imbalance in each part of the body, returns balance with the rest of the body. Structure dictates function. This means that when any part of the body is having a problem, the body part has to have some mechanical/anatomical issue, otherwise there would be no problem. There are IMT techniques for every single structure in the body, from muscle to ligament to tendon to organ.
As a manual therapist, I evaluate patients' conditions based on mechanical strains in the body. The mechanical strains show what is happening in the body, and also the effect those mechanical strains are having on the body's physiology.
Throughout the process of evaluating and treating patients, the focus is on finding the "why." The "why" is: why is the patient in pain? Why is there still muscle spasm? Why aren't things healing? Why is there inflammation?
When you can figure out the why, you can fix the problem and often dramatically change the physical status of the patient.
Integrative Manual Therapy (IMT) is a combination of thousands of techniques, and represents a huge step forward in manual therapy care. IMT therapies deal with a broad scope of tissues and symptoms and is extremely effective in the treatment of many physical ailments. . Often when receiving treatment, patients want to know exactly what is is being done, and IMT technology gives one the ability to answer those questions.
The following is an explanation of IMT:
The focus of IMT is on removing mechanical strains from every tissue in the body. Removing this strain or imbalance in each part of the body, returns balance with the rest of the body. Structure dictates function. This means that when any part of the body is having a problem, the body part has to have some mechanical/anatomical issue, otherwise there would be no problem. There are IMT techniques for every single structure in the body, from muscle to ligament to tendon to organ.
As a manual therapist, I evaluate patients' conditions based on mechanical strains in the body. The mechanical strains show what is happening in the body, and also the effect those mechanical strains are having on the body's physiology.
Throughout the process of evaluating and treating patients, the focus is on finding the "why." The "why" is: why is the patient in pain? Why is there still muscle spasm? Why aren't things healing? Why is there inflammation?
When you can figure out the why, you can fix the problem and often dramatically change the physical status of the patient.