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Assessment
During your first appointment there will be a 5-15 minute assessment at the beginning of your massage. This will be included in your treatment time. This assessment is necessary to determine precise problem areas and to devise a treatment plan specific to you. It is also a great way to determine a benchmark for yourself, so you can measure progress!
Here are some examples of types of assessment you may experience:
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Postural Scan
A postural scan involves standing in a relaxed posture with your shoes off while Amber takes a hands-on look at your bony landmarks and soft tissue tension. This is used to determine your skeletal alignment and what structures might be causing postural dysfunction. |
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Active Free Range of Motion/ Passive Range of Motion
Range of motion testing is simply active or passive movement of a joint or series of joints. Actively moving your arm overhead, for example, gives clues about how the muscular elements of movement are involved in pain or limitation. Passive testing gives clues about bones, ligaments and other passive tissues. |
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Muscle Testing
Testing the strength and endurance of involved muscles and comparing them to those on the unaffected side of your body gives more information about neuro-muscular involvement. |
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Special and Neural Testing
Specific Tests designed to stress specific tissues of the body to further rule out or identify problem structures. An example of this is the Straight Leg Test which will stretch the Sciatic nerve in several spots… if this leads to an increase in symptoms, then we determine that an irritable nerve is involved. |
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