According to the Meritus Total Rehab Care therapists, the Graston Technique is an instrument-assisted, soft-tissue mobilization technique. It uses six stainless steel instruments of various shapes ...

An Indianapolis, Indiana, native, Ray — who has been practicing for 17 years — also brought a unique method of manual therapy and soft tissue mobilization with her to Northern Michigan.

It involves the use of stainless steel tools to loosen up soft tissue tightness ... with random scar tissue forming. The area can be tight, and painful. The Graston technique breaks up those ...

and Graston Technique, have been around for years, they are becoming increasingly available to everyday athletes. Like massage, they are forms of soft-tissue mobilization, a therapy that breaks up ...

The instrument can then be used to identify and treat areas exhibiting soft tissue fibrosis or chronic inflammation. Stretching exercises are used to promote re-alignment of the fibers into the normal ...

The Graston Technique is a patented-form of soft tissue mobilization that uses a series of instruments to detect scar tissue and treat chronic inflammation that causes back pain and neck pain.

Rather than cut, the knifelike utensil, one of six used in a patented process of muscle mobilization ... up knots and scar tissue -- "adhesions" and "restrictions" in Graston-speak -- and also ...

the Graston technique Here in the Western ... Instead of gua sha, you might hear it called instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM). A small tool is used to help loosen up tight ...

Background Instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM) and percussion massagers are ... 10F per group): IASTM (using Graston instruments), percussive massager (Theragun Elite), or control ...