We offer Soft Tissue Therapy here at TFD Therapy and it is a term that you may not be familiar with, or you may not be completely sure if you could benefit from it…let us explain!
Soft tissue therapy uses the most effective hands-on therapy techniques to treat common chronic or minor injuries, aches, and pains suffered through sport or day-to-day life. It is used to treat injuries or as a form of maintenance care for your body. It involves the manipulation and management of soft tissue structures including muscles, ligaments, and tendons to aid someone’s day-to-day life or a specific sport. The focus will be on the rehabilitation of these structures to help prevent future injuries, and it can be extremely beneficial to anybody, not just sports or avid gym go-ers (although these can certainly benefit). We see a lot of desk workers combatting their posture, elderly people pushing to stay active, as well as injured people – whether that is a sports injury or general aches and pains from day-to-day life. Soft tissue therapy is an extremely useful tool to help reduce your risk of injury or aches and pains.
If you have a particular pain or area of discomfort, then your therapist will use various assessments to determine where it is coming from and what could be the root cause of your pain. From here there will be a lot of hands-on treatment including massage and other soft tissue techniques as well as potentially other complimentary therapies such as shockwave, dry cupping or dry needling. Following treatment there will be an element of your treatment based around rehab to enhance your treatment and enable you to get the most benefit from it. This may involve some advice, stretches, or exercises to work on those areas.
Soft tissue therapy techniques aim to help speed up the body’s natural healing process in areas where it is needed. The main aim of this treatment is to restore normal function in the tissues – whatever this normal function looks like for that individual. Soft tissue therapists will aim to get to the root cause of the symptoms instead of purely treating the symptoms; this will help to reduce the chance of recurrence. Soft tissue therapy is often also used as a maintenance treatment to improve general physical wellbeing.
At TFD Therapy we have both Josh and Jo, who are Level 5 Soft Tissue Therapists, and you can book an appointment with either of them at reception. Alternatively, you can call us on 01235 772995 or email us on therapy@tfdgym.co.uk. TFD Therapy welcomes both TFD gym members and non-members.
Please ask one of the team if you have any further questions regarding soft tissue therapy here at TFD Therapy.
Blog by Jo Davies – Level 5 Soft Tissue Therapy