What does Myotherapy involve?

Backfocus Myotherapists work together with our physiotherapists to provide the best possible outcome for patients. Our Myotherapist will discuss your history and perform a physical assessment to diagnose your problem. Your treatment plan will include a range of techniques including:

• Traditional soft tissue massage
• Deep tissue massage and release
• Trigger point release with dry needling or acupressure
• Hold- relax technique
• Cupping
• Corrective exercise

How can Myotherapy help me?

Myotherapy relaxes tight muscles, improves healing and reduces pain.

Tight muscles will eventually cause you pain – the fact they are tight means they are likely to be over loaded. This leads to micro trauma, release of pain mediating chemicals and the formation of painful trigger points and bands in the muscle. Myotherapy techniques improve blood flow to the local muscle and this allows three major things which lead to reduced pain.

1. Relaxation of the tight muscle – the tight muscle fibres let go and soften. This rebalances the muscle and reduces the overload.
2. Improved healing – better blood flow allows more nutrients to be brought to the muscle and those pain causing chemicals can be moved away. This leads to better healing of the tissue and less pain.
3. Blockage of pain signals – the therapies used interrupt pain signals to your brain and quiet down your pain sensitized neural system. The nerves become less active and your pain is reduced

Who will benefit from Myotherapy?

People with a very wide variety of muscle problems will benefit from Myotherapy.. Some of the many conditions that Myotherapy has shown great benefit for include:

• Back and Neck pain
• Headaches and Migraines
• Shoulder Pain
• Sciatica
• Sports injuries
• Chronic muscle tension
• Chronic Pain
• Tendonitis
• Pre and post-pregnancy pain

Myotherapy is rebateable through your private health insurance. Our therapists are also registered with Workcover.