Joints Adjustment Southampton

Joint adjustment, in other words joint manipulation. If you are looking for a physiotherapists in Southampton to treat your pain through joint manipulation. We are here to diagnose the cause of your pain and choose the right therapy.

Joints Adjustment Therapy Southampton

The joint manipulation therapy, commonly known as “setting,” was known as early as 400 BC. Currently, it is used by physiotherapists, osteopaths, and chiropractors. Joint manipulations can be performed, for example, using the Ackermann, Cyriax or Mulligan methods. Therapies should be performed by a trained therapist in order not to lead to severe complications. Accurate diagnostics must confirm indications for the use of manipulative techniques. Before proceeding with the manipulation, it is necessary to examine:

Range of passive and active motion
The patient’s aesthesia
Articular slide
Muscle strength and flexibility
Determine the direction of painless movement

The typical “click” heard during manipulation is harmless. It does not indicate a good or bad procedure. The process characterised by a “shooting” noise occurs by rapidly separating the articular surfaces where a gas cavity is formed. Another crunch in the joint may occur only after approximately 20 minutes because the gas produced must be absorbed. The popping noise can also be caused by a tendon that is jumping over the surface of the bone.

Manipulations are particularly effective when the intervertebral joints of the spine are blocked, which causes reduced mobility and sharp pain during movement, making patients adopt a tilted position, while the condition is known as lumbago. After successful manipulation, the patient leaves the office with an improvement of 90-100%.

The therapist should prepare a set of self-mobilisation exercises for the patient, which accelerate recovery and increase the effectiveness of the therapies.

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Joint manipulations - scientific research

Hussien and colleagues in 2017 showed that adding Mulligan therapy to the basic nonspecific chronic back pain (LBP) rehabilitation program improved functioning and pain relief. Dr. Bronfort et al. In 2001 proved that the use of spine manipulation with strengthening exercises gives the best treatment benefits. The combination of these therapies increases muscle strength and range of motion in the joint. In 2012, a group of 40 people with acute phase bursitis underwent Mulligan therapy and stretching exercises. Gokhan Doner et al. showed that the Mulligan method had an immediate and long-lasting improvement in stiffness reduction, increased range of motion and pain relief compared to exercise alone.

Joint manipulation surgery - action

The joint manipulation techniques do not exceed the mobility of the joint, so they do not damage the fibers of the joint capsule and ligaments. The manual therapy procedures performed by me significantly increase the range of joint movement and reduce pain. The effects are visible after the first treatment. After manipulation, the periarticular structures may elongate, the contracted joint capsule stretches and the connections between collagen fibers may be torn. The analgesic effect results from the reduction of resting muscle tension. The use of an appropriate mobilization technique has a positive effect on the spine, because it reduces the resting tension of the paraspinal muscles, which cause pain and diseases of the spine.

Contraindications for joint manipulation techniques

Joint manipulation allows, above all, to obtain an analgesic effect and improve the mobility of a given joint. There are, however, a few absolute and relative contraindications for this type of surgery. The relative terms are that despite the use of appropriate force and amplitude, the tissues of the joints could be damaged and deteriorated, which of course will be counterproductive. In turn, the absolute contraindications are: