What is
Manual Medicine Therapy?
Manual Medicine Therapy is a type of myofascial and
pressure point release therapy. A Manual
Medicine Technician (MMT), is a trained practitioner who uses their hands to
find hard spots in the tissue, whether that be muscle, viscera, fascia or bone.
There are no forceful or high velocity adjustments involved. This type of
therapy softens all of the tissues, allowing the benefits to stay longer. The
goal is to release the hard spot in the tissue, returning breath and life to
the tissues.
Normally, the body exists in a state of
perfect health. Trauma of any kind can interfere and not allow the body to
return to its perfect state of health naturally. The restrictions caused by the
trauma may not be apparent initially. It can take years and an innocent, easy
movement for the pain to start being noticed. Manual Medicine Therapy lets the
body to return to its state of perfect health by encouraging the trauma to
release.
Trauma falls into three categories: physical,
emotional and mental. Even in what is considered to be purely a physical trauma,
there are often times a mental and emotional component. For example, a rider
falling from a horse, or a horse slipping in the mud--in the moment that it happens,
there is the fear and thought of potentially not surviving. Then the impact
happens, causing the physical trauma with the emotional and mental components.