Information For Patients

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For your convenience, you can print out the forms and fill them out prior to your visit to save time.

• Registration and History Form
• Informed Consent to Treat Form

For personal injury cases, please complete this form prior to your visit.

• Personal Injury Form

ART is a patented, state of the art soft tissue system/movement based massage technique that treats problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and nerves. Headaches, back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, shin splints, shoulder pain, sciatica, plantar fasciitis, knee problems, and tennis elbow are just a few of the many conditions that can be resolved quickly and permanently with ART. These conditions all have one important thing in common: they are often a result of overused muscles.

Over-used muscles (and other soft tissues) change in three important ways:

• acute conditions (pulls, tears, collisions, etc),
• accumulation of small tears (micro-trauma)
• not getting enough oxygen (hypoxia).

Each of these factors can cause your body to produce tough, dense scar tissue in the affected area. This scar tissue binds up and ties down tissues that need to move freely. As scar tissue builds up, muscles become shorter and weaker, tension on tendons causes tendinitis, and nerves can become trapped. This can cause reduced range of motion, loss of strength, and pain. If a nerve is trapped you may also feel tingling, numbness, and weakness.

Every ART session is actually a combination of examination and treatment. Dr. Lim uses his hands to evaluate the texture, tightness and movement of muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments and nerves. Abnormal tissues are treated by combining precisely directed tension with very specific patient movements.

These treatment protocols - over 500 specific moves - are unique to ART. They allow the doctor to identify and correct the specific problems that are affecting each individual patient. ART is not a cookie-cutter approach.

for more information on ART, please visit http://activerelease.com

Graston is considered by many as the gold standard in instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization(IASTM).  We utilize high quality stainless steel instruments to treat the most common repetitive use and sports injuries.  These tools are concave and convex-shaped, with rounded edges and are not sharp. The shape of the varying instruments are designed to reach different structures all throughout the body.  The instruments are used to scan over and detect areas of injured fibrotic tissue. 

The Kinesio Taping Method is designed to facilitate the body’s natural healing process while allowing support and stability to muscles and joints without restricting the body’s range of motion. It is used to successfully treat a variety of orthopedic, neuromuscular, neurological and medical conditions. Both Kinesio® Tex Tape and the training protocol have shown results that would have been unheard of using older methods and materials.

What is Kinesio® Tape is used to:

• Re-educate the neuromuscular system
• Reduce pain
• Enhance performance
• Prevent injury
• Promote improved circulation and healing

for more information on Kinesio Tape, please visit http://kinesiotaping.com