DR. MATTERN’S MISSION STATEMENT: I REDUCE UNNECESSARY HUMAN SUFFERING BY STIMULATING JOINT MECHANORECEPTORS, DISRUPT FASCIAL ADHESIONS, SUPPORT LAX LIGAMENTS, IMPROVE POSTURAL OPPOSITION TO GRAVITY AND ENCOURAGING REDUCTIONS IN DIETARY SIMPLE SUGARS AND INFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS.
Yes, that’s a bit wordy but it is precise and you need that with a mission statement. It means I apply controlled force to free up stuck joints that are not moving well and creating pain. I do bodywork-massage and deep tissue mobilization to free up connective tissue to relieve pain and improve motion. I stabilize joints that move too much and are unstable. Poor posture is considered a stress, effort is used to improve a patients posture relative to the stress of gravity. I also educate patients on the dangers excess simple sugars (fructose and excess carbohydrates that promote disease and pain) Seed oils like canola, corn and soybean oils are widespread in use, they strongly contribute to inflammation and a wide variety of pain and disease states.
FASCIA consists of dense connective tissue. It forms sheaths for individual muscle fibers and partitions between fibers. It holds everything in your body together providing a stable three dimensional lattice framework that crosses every cell, tissue and organ in your body. It is a chain of sinew that goes thru the entire frame of your body. Fascia protects and resists against excess outside forces on your body. Excess outside force can create chemical and mechanical stressors that promote pain, limit motion, drive weakness and change chemistry and immune function. It impacts how your brain adjusts your body to the outside world.
A dense restrictive Leucotape or more mobile Kinesiotape is used to stabilize sprains. Sprains involve ligaments that may be injured and allowing excess motion between two or more bones.
JOINT DYSFUNCTION OVERVIEW: Joints will become locked (stuck) due to muscle imbalance and postural overstrain and less commonly trauma. Poor movement patterns promote imbalance where some muscle groups will tend to be weak and others short and tense. This creates alterations in perception, making one more prone to falls, clumsiness and injury and drives a less that ideal signal to your brains central processing regions which can be perceived as mental fatigue and brain fog.
HERNIATED TRIGGER POINTS are areas where a portion of muscle has been injured. Excess or chronic use of a muscle damages the slick, shiny white fascial covering of a muscle. Damage will actually allow the muscle to protrude the fascial covering and become entrapped. The resulting pain is usually described as steady, deep and aching.
ENTHESOPATHIES Are spot specific lesions where there has been injury at a tendon to bone interface. These are common lesions and associated with degenerative arthritis, other inflammatory diseases and metabolic disorders especially diabetes. A disruption at a bony attachment site creates scarring and chronic muscle ache and weakness. Chronic use will re sprain the insertion side of the compromised ligament. Pain is pinpoint and on the edge of a bone and very tender.
SOFT TISSUE JOINT DYSFUNCTION. Where there is a loss of motion (joint play) manipulation can be utilized to gap a joint stuck in a reduced degree of motion.
A gas bubble, mostly carbon dioxide may form and release with a pop or audible crack as muscle restriction or spasm is overcome and the joint restriction is overcome.
MYOFASCIAL LAYER JOINT DYSFUNCTION.
The inner layer of a synovial joint may fold or otherwise become entrapped in a joint space, compression of the tender synovial folds in a joint articulation will create pain and locking of the joint. Gentle force inducing a cavitation or popping will release this type of lesion and restore motion to an area of pain and restriction. orce may be applied to break up painful knots and tight tender zones in tissue. Other types of lesions require pressure along a distance to release tight banding of contractile tissue
The terms and definitions described above broadly describes a very wide variety of different terms and maladies you may have heard of.
Some are listed below and are described as anatomic site or common terminology like “tennis elbow.” They are all essentially connective or muscular tissue lesions. These sport injury or lesions respond well to the physical therapies, rehabilitation procedures and chiropractic therapies used in the office daily.
- AC JOINT
- ACHILLES TENDONITIS
- ACL
- ADDUCTOR STRAIN
- ANKLE LATERAL SPRAIN
- ANKLE MEDIAL SPRAIN
- BICEPS TENDONITIS
- BRACHIAL PLEXUS
- BURSITIS OF THE ELBOW
- BURSITIS OF THE KNEE
- BURSITIS SHOULDER
- CARPAL TUNNEL
- CERVICAL SPONDYLITIS
- CHONDROMALACIA
- COSTOCHONDRAL
- DEQUERVAINS
- ELBOW HYPEREXTENSION
- ELBOW VALGUS LAXITY
- EPICONDYLITIS
- ERECTOR SPINAE
- FASCIAL ADHESION
- FINGER SPRAIN
- FROZEN SHOULDER
- GAMEKEEPERS THUMB
- HALLUX VALGUS
- HAMMER TOE
- HAMSTRING STRAIN
- HEADACHE
- HAMMER TOE
- HAMSTRING STRAIN
- HIP POINTER
- ILIOTIBIAL BAND
- LITTLE LEAGUE ELBOW
- MALLET FINGER
- MENISCUS KNEE
- METATARSAL ARCH
- MORTONS NEUROMA
- NECK SPRAIN
- OSGOOD-SCHLATTER
- OSTEOCHONDROSIS
- OSTEOARTHRITIS
- PATELLAFEMORAL
- PERONEAL SUBLUXATION
- PLANTAR FASCITIS
- PLICA OF KNEE
- QUADRICEP STRAIN
- RETROCALCANEAL
- ROTATOR CUFF
- RIB
- SC JOINT
- SCIATICA
- SCOLIOSIS
- SEVERS SYNDROME
- SHIN SPLINTS
- SHOULDER INSTABILITY
- SI JOINT
- SPONDYLOSIS
- THORACIC OUTLET
- TMJ
- TROCHANTERIC BURTSITIS
- TURF TOE
- WRIST SPRAIN