IMS is a similar technique to acupuncture and uses fine needles to treat tight muscle bands that are often the cause of many chronic and painful conditions such as neck and back pain as well as many other soft tissue injuries.
In these conditions, nerves and nerve endings become irritated and are supersensitive. They cause normal, harmless signals to be exaggerated, resulting in spasm of the muscle supplied by that nerve.
Chronic muscle spasm can lead to muscle shortening which produces pain by pulling on tendons and straining them as well as stressing the joints they move. Painkillers and anti-inflammatory medication only mask the pain.
The goal of IMS is to release muscle shortening which presses on and irritates the nerves. Supersensitive areas can be desensitized and the persistent pull of shortened muscles released with IMS.
Therapists Karen Ramsay and Jon Ashmead are expert in techniques of acupuncture. Anne Edwards is our Gunn certified IMS technician.
As a Sherwood Park Sports Physiotherapy client, you will receive the full benefit of a multi-disciplinary approach to your treatment, with everything you need under one roof and in the hands of some of the most skilled professionals in health care.
