Avoid Surgery

Try Active Release Techniques before surgery. There's a 90% chance you won't need it at all!

Good news: ART is 90% effective in curing soft tissue injuries.

Bad news: surgery can cause even more problems.

Many of the injuries which often end up in surgery are caused from nothing more than soft-tissue injuries. Research proves that many surgeries today are being avoided altogether with ART. For example, ART cures 90% of the chronic problems, such as carpel tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff tendonitis and most other repetitive stress injuries.

A major problem with surgery is that it can cause even more soft-tissue damage when scar tissue forms to heal the cut muscles. Sometimes, since so many muscles can be attached to one injury, surgery may even miss fixing much of the problem.

Today, many insurance companies refer surgery patients to ART for treatment as part of the process to find out if surgery is necessary. Many times the problem can be found and resolved with ART alone—usually in six or eight visits.

There are surgical procedures that will remove adhesions. But there’s another major problem with surgery when cutting the adhesion out. Your body must heal the area that was cut. And guess what the body will repair that area with? You got it, more adhesive scar tissue. Back to square one.

Surgery should be the LAST choice to get rid of soft tissue problems. Since ART is non-invasive and has no side effects, you should always try ART first.

For example, when you have nerve entrapment problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome and other repetitive stress injuries, the nerve can be entrapped at a number of locations. This makes it hard for surgery to eliminate the real problem.

The surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome involves a muscle that’s been shortened by the wrong repetitive motion. Your wrist muscle hurts because it’s been repeatedly twisted and turned under tension. As a result, the muscle has become chronically stuck and tight. That’s common in both office workers and strength-training athletes. Surgery usually involves a diagonal cut across the ligament, but because the entrapment can occur at any one of five common points, surgery is effective only about half the time. The ART protocols used on a carpel tunnel injury involve reversing the over flexed and twisted muscles. With ART, the problem is successfully and completely fixed 90% of the time.

If you must have surgery, consider ART before and after.

ART is a doctor-recommended pre- and post-surgical technique. Before surgery, ART helps to open up the injured area and promote healthy muscles, which leads to less scarring and a faster recovery. After surgery, ART allows healthy tissue to lie down in the correct position and increase the range of motion.

Whether you need surgery or not, ART is a proven way to eliminate chronic soft tissue problems and avoid surgery.

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