Manual therapy in Tarragona
Our physiotherapists perform therapeutic massages of 30 to 60 minutes, combining different soft tissue manipulation techniques to relieve pain, reduce muscle tension and restore mobility. This is not a conventional relaxation massage, but a clinical treatment delivered by registered healthcare professionals.
What is manual therapy in physiotherapy?
Manual therapy is a set of treatment techniques applied with the physiotherapist's hands directly onto the patient's tissues: muscles, fascia, ligaments and joints. It includes therapeutic massage, joint mobilizations, spinal manipulations, analytical stretching and myofascial techniques.
Unlike aesthetic or relaxation massage, manual therapy in physiotherapy is based on prior clinical reasoning: the physiotherapist evaluates the patient's dysfunction, identifies the structures involved and applies the most appropriate technique for each case.
When is manual therapy indicated?
- Contractures and muscle tension: Cervical, dorsal or lumbar pain from muscle overload, poor posture or stress.
- Tension headaches: Headaches originating from contractures in the cervical and suboccipital muscles.
- Joint stiffness: Loss of mobility after immobilization, surgery or inflammatory processes.
- Sports injuries: Muscle overloads, fibre strains and post-competition recovery.
- Myofascial pain: Trigger points and fascial restrictions that generate referred pain at a distance.
- Stress and somatized anxiety: Chronic muscle tension associated with sustained stress states.
Our manual therapy approach
At Fontanet Medicina i Fisioterapia we combine manual therapy with other techniques such as electrotherapy, therapeutic exercise or shockwave therapy when the case requires it. We do not apply a generic protocol: each session is adapted to the patient's progress and examination findings.
We offer private sessions of 30 and 60 minutes. The 60-minute sessions are especially suitable for treatments combining several techniques or for large areas (full back + neck, for example).
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