Jason Harper, PT, DPT, Cert. DN
Four hands-on techniques, chosen for what your tissue is actually doing, then the exercise that makes the change stick.
Manual therapy covers a range of hands-on techniques for musculoskeletal pain and disability: precise movement and pressure applied to muscle, joint and connective tissue to reduce pain, decrease swelling, improve flexibility and restore function. The techniques are not interchangeable, and picking between them is most of the skill. Fortify's therapists have advanced training across several manual approaches and keep adding to it, which is what lets the assessment decide the technique instead of the other way round.
Hands-on work is most effective combined with therapeutic exercise, movement retraining and education. Your therapist builds a plan that usually includes a personalised home exercise programme, correction of the movement pattern that caused the problem, guidance on ergonomics and activity, and self-management strategies for when it flares. The point is to need us less over time.
Manual therapy at 792 S 3000 E, Unit 104, St. George. Call or text (435) 216-7929.
Hands-on work into restricted muscle, fascia and connective tissue.
Suction that lifts tissue upward instead of pressing it down.
Instruments that find restriction hands alone would miss.
A skilled, quick thrust to a specific segment. Performed by a therapist trained in it.
Cupping, spinal manipulation and kinesio taping are all on the treatment list here, and so is dry needling, which is often used in the same visit.