Force progressioN

Force-Progression: This ensures that just the “right level” of treatment intensity, and vigor, is used for what ails you at every session, at any given time, allowing for adjustments and fine-tuning as needed, to avoid “over” or “under-” treatment of your symptoms and limitations during your unique path to full-recovery.

BRIEF History of Manual Therapy TECHNIQUES

Manual Therapy, rooted in Egypt around 4000 BCE, became prominent in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unlike newer practices such as Chiropractics (which emerged in 1895 in Davenport, Iowa), many other field such as physiotherapy have long used “graded mobilizations” that are on a progressive spectrum starting with slowest and gentlest motions of a “grade 1” and upto the quickest and most forceful “ high-velocity thrusts” of the grade 5 mobilization that push beyond a joints current limits (similar to chiropractic techniques).

*Research advises against vigorous techniques such as grade 5 mobilizations, and Chiropractic Adjustments, during the first month of an acute spinal attack or limb symptoms, as they can exacerbate the condition rather than aid.