Integrative Manual Therapy Singapore

Integrative Manual Therapy is a comprehensive treatment modalities that assess and treat pain, dysfunction, disease and disability.

Our therapist specialize in treating the patient as a whole person rather that a disease or single pain spot.In this way most patients get a better change of changing the whole body structure and have the opportunity for recovery, rehabilitation and prevention as an alternative to joints or bone manipulation which is more threatening and harder to control and practice.

What to Expect in an from Integrated Manual Therapy session?

The process includes:

You should wear comfortable clothes to the appointment, which is typically 1-2 hours. You will be treated with your clothes on. You may be in a private room with the therapist or you may be in a larger room where there are several therapists working.

comprehensive history
general health questions

The therapist will ask for your goals. This is a very important step. It is your opportunity to ask for what you want for your health and well being. The therapist's goal is to help you achieve your goals as quickly as possible.

Physical Examination

The therapist will evaluate your range of motion by asking you to stand or sit and bend forward, backwards or to the sides. The therapists will also move your arms and legs to assess your movement. pain mapping. consists of lightly touching the whole body and palpating or feeling the rhythm of the connective tissue or the Myofascial Mapping rhythm. It is a circadian rhythm Mapping like the heart beat that indicates how well the tissue in that area is doing. The therapist will usually record the results of their "Mapping" on a body diagram.

As therapist is doing this assessment they are also making note of whether there is any swelling or puffiness, are there areas that are hotter than the surrounding tissue indicating inflammation. They are assessing the texture and quality of the tissue. They feel for sweatiness in the palms or feet, indicating a disturbance of the autonomic nervous system and give a marker of how much stress is contributing to the problem.

After the evaluation, which often takes about one hour, the therapist will discuss a treatment plan with you. They will talk about the correlation between what they found in their assessment and your symptoms and the fastest way to improve your health and well being.

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Then you will be asked to lay clothed on a soft table.

Treatment consists of the use of gentle hands on pressure to normalize the way the joints function and move. A joint can be the knee or the meeting place of the bone of the upper leg with the bones of the lower leg. A joint can also be where the colon meets the hip bone or where the diaphragm meets the liver. All these areas should move smoothly and evenly in order for good blood flow and healing to occur.

The therapist will also contact certain reflex point that will assist your healing and recovery. Therapist are skilled in releasing the fascial to improve flexibility and enregydifferent rhythms in the body such as the rhythmical movement of the heart, the lungs, the blood flow, and the expansion and contraction rhythms of the organs, nerves and bones.

Home Care Program

At the end of the treatment, the therapist will often give you "homework" or ways you can assist in your own healing. The homework can consist of specific exercises or techniques toy can do to heal yourself

Other homework might consist of strengthening exercises, activities of daily living and following a nutritional program.The therapist have extensive training in nutritional supplementation and may make recommendations on things you should eliminate from your diet, such as gluten if you show signs of sensitivities and allergies. They will give advice on things you should add to your diet, such as fresh organic green leafy vegetables, blueberries and good quality loose green tea. They may counsel you in nutritional supplements, such as fish oils or essential fatty acids and vitamin B complex, depending on their evaluation.

At the end of the initial appointment you can book further sessions. We have some clients who fly in from a great distance, they may book several sessions a week for several weeks and then we may not see them for a year. Other clients live nearby or within a one hour drive and they may come in once a week or once a month for one hour or a few hours at a time.

Our therapist work with clients with many kinds of joint pain and dysfunction, such as people before or after an injury or joint replacement surgery. Manual therapist often work with myofascial pain syndrome, fibromyalgia, joint pain and muscle pain.

Most people seek Integrative Manual Therapy because they want to achieve better heath and enhance the quality of their life .

The Benefits of Integraive Manual Therapy