The great majority of discomfort in our daily lives is caused by muscle disorders. Ninety percent of pain is due to muscles. Everything from sinus pain to sore feet is potentially a result of over-stressed, overworked and malnourished muscles. Yet rarely do we seek relief focused on fixing muscle disorders. Think about it, there is a muscle attached to almost every partof your body. Treating the part of our anatomy that holds us together makes sense.

Below are some of the hundreds of common ailments that muscle therapy can help, most of them are never considered to be caused by "bad" muscles.

Knee or Hip Replacement:

Contracted muscles and scar tissue formation can both restrict joint movement after a knee or hip replacement. Lengthening the correct muscles and breaking up scar tissue with Therbo can help restore your range of motion and get your joints moving quickly.

Headaches:

They don't call them tension headaches for nothing. Muscles in the shoulders, neck and head are often the root cause of many headaches. Therbo can help to get your shoulders and head back in line with the rest of your body.

Carpal Tunnel:

Painful hands and forearms are often mistaken for true carpal tunnel syndrome. Tight muscles in your forearms, arms, shoulders, chest and neck can put pressure on surrounding joints, blood vessels and nerves causing numbness, tingling and severe pain. Lengthening the correct muscles can help by offering a treatment for existing pain and a preventative routine to keep your hands in good shape.

Lower Back Pain and Sciatica:

Serious back pain does not happen overnight.While the pain may start while bending over to pick something up or the morning after a tough day of yardwork, the problem has been developing for months or perhaps even years. The reason you have back pain is because your body and spine have been pulled out of their normal position and into dysfunctions. Relief can be almost immediate using Therbo. The root cause of most lower back pain is muscular imbalances which will tilt your pelvis, as seen in the pictures below. Normal on the left and anterior tilted on the right.

Meilus Muscular Therapy is used to correct the muscular imbalances, which will return the pelvis to neutral.

Sciatica is an overused term. Pain to the leg and sometimes foot might be coming from the sciatic nerve in your low back. The pain could be coming from the sciatic nerve being stretched across a tilted pelvis. A tight Piriformis muscle could be applying pressure to the sciatic nerve causing the same type of pain. A significant number of people have leg pain caused by trigger point referral from the Tensor Fascia Latae and or Glut Minimus muscles on the outside of the hip. Lengthening the correct muscles can provide relief quickly.

TMJ:

Ranging in severity from mild jaw clicking to a pain so bad you cannot bear to eat, TMJ is a serious disorder. Lengthening the correct muscles can often relieve the pain and improve range of motion. Therbo will compliment any therapy your dentist is providing.

Ankle Sprains:

Many sprains are more than just stretched ligaments. Injured muscles also play a major role in the pain from an ankle sprain. Instead of limping around for a couple of weeks or more, come in and get relief. Most athletes are back playing after only one treatment.

Tennis Elbow:

Over-exerted muscles in the forearm and biceps are usually to blame for this common ailment. Lengthening these muscles can get you back in the game quickly.

Bursitis:

Muscle therapy can relieve the pain of bursitis by lengthening the shortened muscles that are affecting the joint and its bursa.

Arthritis:

Arthritis is irritated and worsened by tight muscles. When muscles are too tight they tend to compress the joints they are conected to, crushing already tender cartilage and rubbing bone on bone surfaces. Lengthening the muscles connecting across the painful joint can provide relief and actually help prevent arthritis by increasing joint space and mobility.

Scar Tissue:

In many cases, scar tissue is worsened by hardened muscles in and around the injury. Up to 80% of the scar tissue can be released by using Therbo on the area. Softening the hardened muscles offers visual reduction of the scar, reduced pain and improved flexibility.

Scoliosis:

When muscles on one side of your body contract, what is going to happen? Your body will bend toward that side. Different muscle can cause lumbar or thoracic scoliosis. Much of the deformity suffered in these disorders is a result of extremely tight muscles. Lengthening the correct muscles can make a significant difference in just a few tratments.

Bunions and Hammer Toes:

That's right, your hammer toes are likely caused by muscles pulling bones in your foot out of position. This also applies to bunions. Improvements can be made in just one visit by lengthening the right muscles in your lower leg.

Sinus Disorders:

Many of the sinus disorders we complain of are the result of muscles in spasm in our face and neck. If you are tired of eating sinus pills as though they were candy come see what lengthening the correct muscles can do for you.

Parkinson's:

Although there is no cure for Parkinson's, lengthening the affected muscles makes the disease easier to live with by significantly reducing associated stiffness and shaking.

Fibromyalgia:

Fibromyalgia develops when we compensate for a variety of injuries (a frozen shoulder or back sprain for instance) by limping or using another body part that does not hurt in order to avoid the pain of the original injury. Muscle therapy begins by alleviating pain in the worst area on the first visit and continues with an agressive plan to treat the rest of the body.

Balance Disorders:

Chronic balance disorders are often caused by muscles tugging on the bones around your inner ear. Relieve the tension on the inner ear and your balance will return quickly.

The list of disorders that can successfully be treated by Therbo is much longer than we have room to list. If you're not sure whether or not we can help you, please call and ask. You'll get an honest appraisal of your situation and we'll explain your options in a way that allows you to make an educated decision regarding the treatment of your problem.