Percussive therapy is a deep muscle treatment that uses rapid and wide vertical impulses on muscle tissues, causing a neuro-muscular response
EFFECTS:
Reduces the pain
Improves joint movement
Increases the recovery speed
Increases blood flow
Useful in pre-race muscle activation
Breaks the scar tissue
Reduces lactic acid
Releases muscle spasms
Increases lymphatic flow
Acts on the tendon organ of the golgi
Improves the proprioception of the body
Remove peripheral nerve restrictions
Stimulates tissue remodeling
PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS
During percussive therapy, intra and extra cellular fluids are distorted, causing shear and heat forces within the extracellular fascia matrix.
The cutting force and heat seem to decrease the viscosity of hyaluronic acid as a component of the fundamental substance, which helps to improve the smoothness of the surface and deep layers of the fascia
Mechanoreduction is the process by which the application of a trait, vibration and percussion to the fascia is converted into changes at the cellular level.
Integrins are specialized receptors sensitive to elongation, vibration, and percussion and attach each cell to the extracellular matrix.