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			Introducing ART® (Active Release Techniques) ART is a breakthrough in the treatment of injury. A revolutionary form of manual therapy, it’s the first program specifically designed to evaluate and treat damaged soft tissue. ART can address and resolve many injuries previously considered untreatable, often in just a few visits. When soft tissue is injured, it literally “gets stuck”: Filaments of the tissue get bound together, forming dense scar tissue or adhesions. These adhesions impede movement, and often entrap nerves. Using a series of hands-on techniques while the affected muscles are in motion, the ART practitioner assesses the damaged tissue and releases the adhesions, separating bound tissue and restoring function. It sounds simple, yet the results can be dramatic, and immediate. Unlike traditional therapies for soft-tissue injury that offer only symptomatic relief, ART goes to the root of the problem to resolve injury and facilitate healing. Properly employed, its success rate is over 90%, even with such chronic problems as carpal tunnel syndromes and rotator cuff tendonitis. At Avanzaré, where ART is combined with chiropractic care and functional movement training, the results can be even more comprehensive, restoring optimal mobility, strength and performance.


			Chiropractic Care Healthy soft tissue is only one of the elements essential to fluid motion. Every part of the musculoskeletal system is interconnected. Movement is initiated by the nervous system, muscle by muscle, bone by bone, joint by joint. If anything is misaligned, the entire kinetic chain is affected. Joints that are fixated or misaligned can weaken muscles, cause pain, and impede the flow of energy to the rest of the body. At Avanzaré, we use classic chiropractic techniques to realign and mobilize the joints of the spine and extremities, resetting affected neurological transmission and reestablishing balance.


			Sports Injury Rehabilitation / Personal Training If rehabilitation is attempted while an affected area is still weak and tight, the constrictions can be increased, creating further imbalance. With ART, rehabilitation doesn’t begin until the injured tissue is restructured. Only then are appropriate exercised recommended and functional movement patterning incorporated to rebuild strength and flexibility, and retrain the body to move properly. This segment of treatment is critical to ensure and maintain a healthy, mobile, injury-free future. In most cases, patients with active lifestyles and disciplined training schedules will be able to continue these, though they may need to modify or supplement their routines for a while. The goal is for patients to walk away with a strategy for maintaining optimal, pain-free performance, without the need for ongoing treatment.


			Massage/To Live is to Move No matter what you do, how you spend your time, at work, play, or leisure activities, how you move physically through your day affects the quality of your life. When your range of motion becomes limited and movement feels painful or weak, daily activities become challenging, if not unbearable, to perform. This happens because the soft tissues that keep your body moving have gotten injured in some way. The joints may become fixated and unable to work properly. The cause of injury might be a sudden trauma or may happen more slowly, over time, from repetitive stress or overuse. Even chronic poor posture or lack of exercise can induce trauma to the tissues. Whatever the cause, injuries respond very well to the appropriate therapies, and relief from pain and dysfunction are well within your reach.

			A Body of Work In collaberation with AVANZARE, A Body of Work is a comprehensive movement center providing private, semi-private and group instruction in Pilates, Gyrotonic® and Yoga. http://www.abodyofwork-sf.com