Myotherapy in Healesville, Seville & Ferntree Gully
What is Myotherapy?
Myotherapy is a form of physical therapy in which we target soft tissue pain and restriction within the musculoskeletal system. Myotherapy or Myo for short comes from the Greek word Myo meaning Muscle and therapy so we could be looked at as muscle therapists.
Within a Myotherapy session expect that we will use clinical reasoning to find the breakdown and cause for the concern to then build a treatment plan to address the area of concern while using manual hands-on therapy, with the treatment plan addressing the management while being clearly defined for you!
Myotherapist have multiple different modalities which we can use within the treatment plan to achieve the best overall outcome for each client! Some of these modalities are Myofascial Dry Needling, Myofascial Cupping, Taping, Muscle Energy Techniques (MET), Corrective exercises and rehabilitation, advice on muscle and pain management techniques, joint mobilisation and manual massage therapy.
What do Myotherapists treat?
Myotherapist can provide a vast range of assessment, treatment, and clinical experience for a range of musculoskeletal pain and other concerns. This could be for example:
- Workplace injuries
- Tendinopathy
- Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue
- Back pain
- Tension headaches & neck pain
- Shoulder pain
- Hip/ Sacro-iliac pain
- Knee pain
- Leg pain
- Foot pain
- Sports injuries
- Along with many other chronic health issues, injuries & pain experienced by many.
What benefits does Myotherapy give?
So, how can all the above of what we can do and how we do benefit you? As a Myotherapist we will aim to work with you collaboratively to approach your concern which you have addressed within your session. Some benefits that you can anticipate are:
- Decreased pain.
- Assistance with injury rehabilitation
- Improvement in performance of sport or occupation
- Increased mobility
- Prevention of reoccurring injuries
The Collaborative approach that you can expect to receive from your Myotherapist is identifying factors that may be influencing your condition such as postural instability, overworking the muscular structures, work environmental factors and assisting in finding ways to modify or decrease these aggravating factors.
What is the difference between Myotherapy and Remedial Massage?
While there is a lot of confusion in the community about the difference between Myotherapy and Remedial Massage Therapists, there is no need to be confused.
While there are many similarities in what we can achieve and complete within a session the main difference that could help determine between a Myotherapist and a Remedial Massage therapist is that we as Myo use a broad range of techniques such as those mentioned above.
Whereas Remedial Massage Therapist commonly work exclusively with manual massage therapy techniques to decrease muscular tension – unless they have done some professional developmental course upskilling their skills. Many of our Remedial Massage Therapists here at Rapid Recovery have upskilled into various carer-progressing skills.
What is the difference between Myotherapy and Physiotherapy?
Both Myotherapy and Physiotherapists; treat and manage musculoskeletal conditions using manual massage techniques, mobilisation, exercise, and rehabilitation. It’s important to note that some physiotherapists will not do any hands on treatment.
Physiotherapists can work in a vast range of settings such as community home visits, hospital ward-based or rehabilitation centres and private clinical spaces. They can provide a formal diagnosis of the condition in which they are treating and managing clients. Myotherapy typically do not work within a hospital environment we tend to work more in a private clinical space or even a sporting club providing a more hands-on approach to treating the presenting musculoskeletal condition concern.
According to ANTA (Australian Natural Therapies Association), the difference between Myotherapy vs Physiotherapy states below:
“Myotherapy and Physiotherapy share many techniques, including soft tissue techniques, exercise and mobilisation. However, there are a few crucial differences.
Physiotherapists often work in the hospital setting and their training has a large focus on physical rehabilitation, pre- and post- surgical management and exercise prescription. Myotherapists do not typically work in hospitals. Instead, they work primarily in private practice and have more of a hands-on approach to treating pain presentations.”
Can I claim my private health insurance with Myotherapy?
Absolutely, you can! We can do this on the spot in the clinic after your treatment. Don’t worry if you forget your card we can send you the invoice showing payment for you to claim manually through your own health fund.