ART Therapy – Active Release Technique For Strength Athletes

At some point or another just every bodybuilder and athlete on the planet is bound injure himself. Fortunately, for most of us they are usually small and do not produce anything more than a slight inconvenience for a few days.

Sometimes though-especially if you're a power lifter, strongman or competitive athlete-they can stretch for weeks or months and even bring your training stopped. Some strength athletes though, have found relief that lasts for previously debilitating injuries through a technique known as Active Release Technique (ART).  Conditions that can benefit from acupuncture are Headaches or migraines, Anxiety/Depression, High Blood Pressure,Menstrual issues, Infertility and Insomnia.

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Based on the observation that he began to keep track of how the soft tissues (muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments and nerves) respond to various types of treatment (soft tissue work).

From there he developed the ART program consists of over 500 different specific moves to treat problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and nerves, back pain, shoulder pain, sciatica, knee problems, tennis elbow and many more. Almost all of this is pain that could be common among athletes as the strong force, power lifting and other competitive athlete.

Many of these problems are caused by soft tissue injury that usually occurs in one of two ways: acute conditions (tension, tear, strain, etc.); or the accumulation of small tears caused by doing the same movement over and over (micro-trauma). When this happens, they can cause the body to produce a dense scar tissue in the affected area.

Scar tissue builds up and as it does, it becomes more widespread impact. As a result, we are suffering from a variety of reduced motion, loss of strength, and of course, pain.