About Active Release Techniques

How is ART Different?

Active Release Techniques (ART) soft tissue management system is so different that it has been granted a medical patent. In order to become an ART provider, each professional must complete hands on instruction and written/practical testing unparalleled by other soft tissue programs. An ART provider is trained to palpate and treat more than 300 muscular and fascial injuries and over 1000 nerve entrapments, which often cause numbness and tingling.

What is causing the Pain?

Soft tissue conditions often do not show up in radiographic studies. When soft tissue has been injured, or even chronically tight, it forms scar tissue. While necessary for healing, scar tissue may stick to adjacent structures restricting range of motion and may cause compression over nerves or blood vessels. This condition alters the texture of soft tissue, which an experienced ART provider can diagnose and treat.

Who can benefit from ART?

What we hear most is "I have had this pain for a long time, and up until now, no one has been able to find the cause. You found the source of the problem right away."

This is because no one is trained to palpate these specific conditions like an ART provider. Seeing and ART provider is like seeing a soft tissue and nerve specialist. Until now, no such specialist existed.

Since an ART provider is qualified to diagnose and treat 400 structures, we see a broad range of injuries and conditons. ART is sucessful for professional and amateur athletes, people injured in auto accidents or at work, and people who just work hard and hurt. Symptoms vary from aches and pains, to burning muscles, to numbness and tingling.