In most cases Yes, if you identify yourself as an active person and have picked up an injury or two along the way, then that is a definite YES for you. But WHY? #IASTM, is a very effective way to handle #ScarTissues, connective tissues #adhesion, #muscle #knots and chronic #pain symptoms.
Below is an explanation of HOW IASTM is helpful for you.
Soft tissue injury often involves damage to structural elements of the tissues. This may result in rupture of capillaries and arterioles, initiating an inflammatory response. This inflammation promotes healing by removing injured tissue and promoting growth and repair to restore the connective tissues to its normal physiological function.
The human body in essence are layers of connective tissues on top of our skeleton, that serves to provide mechanical support, exchange metabolites between blood and tissues, protect against infection, and repair damaged tissue. Connective tissue includes fibroblasts, myoblasts, and macrophages, just to name a few.
One of the most important one would be fibroblasts, fibroblast plays a large role in connective tissue repair, as they are the ground substance in collagen synthesis. When soft tissue injury occurs, collagen may have reassembled in abnormal arrangement or cross-linkage between the different layers of connective tissues, (fascia and muscles) resulting in decreased tensile strength, reactivity, and limited range of motion, decreasing strength, reactivity and range of motion can cause involved tissue to become prone to chronic re-injury and/or pain.
IASTM, is an advanced form of #myofascial mobilization primarily used to detect and relieve the symptoms of scar tissue, adhesion, and fascial restrictions within the soft tissues. This technique allows and encourages remodeling of the abnormal cross linkages between muscle, tendon, or fascia and return the injured area to its optimal function.
IASTM goals are to soften or break up scar tissue by providing movement to the tissue itself and increase tissue temperature, tissue movement, encourages realignment and lengthening to ensure proper laying down of new collagen without stretching or tearing the healing fiber. Collagen, being the basic fiber of soft tissues, needs to lay down parallel to each other to provide rigidity and strength in mechanical tension.
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