ASTYM treatment is a physical therapy treatment that regenerates healthy soft tissues (muscles, tendons, etc.), and eliminates or reduces unwanted scar tissue that may be causing pain or movement restrictions.

ASTYM treatment is highly effective for restoring movement and reducing pain from soft tissue injury/dysfunction, and ASTYM even works when other approaches routinely fail.  One of the main reasons for this is that ASTYM was designed to target the underlying cause of many soft tissue...

Meet today’s guest bloggers:

Kris Korsan, PTA (left) has been a physical therapy assistant for 20 years, and co-owns City Center Rehabilitation, a private orthopedic and sports medicine clinic in Peru, Illinois.

Tracy Daugherty, M.S., ATC, PTA (right) has been a certified athletic trainer for 14 years and a physical therapy assistant for four years.  Ms. Daugherty works with Ms. Korsan at City Center Rehabilitation in Peru, Illinois.

Chronic Tennis Elbow That Would Not Improve With...

Sounds strange to some people, but these injections are being tried to relieve tennis elbow pain, and with some success.  As a sports physician, I have seen many patients with tennis elbow.  I also do medical research, and as a result, I was invited to perform a review of a proposed article for a professional journal on botulinum toxin (Botox® is a trade name for botulinum toxin A) in the treatment of tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis).  This type of review is part of the peer review process...

A controlled clinical trial showing the effectiveness of ASTYM treatment for tennis elbow was presented at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand's annual meeting.  The study showed that ASTYM treatment was an effective tennis elbow therapy by resolving 78.3% of chronic lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) cases.  This figure is consistent with the 80.9% resolution rate for chronic lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) that was contemporaneously reported in the national outcomes database...