Developed by Aaron Mattes, Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) is a dynamic system for improving your flexibility and overall well-being. As you probably already know, stretching your muscles not only reduces your chance of injury, but also strengthens your tendons and improves your circulation. Tight muscles restrict blood flow and oxygen, making tissue more fibrous and rigid. It can be a powerful tool to promote reduced recovery times, achieve balance within the fascial system, and keep tissues healthy.
Sports Massage is a type of massage designed for highly active people who engage in athletics. Engaging in sports is harsh on the body and can often lead to injuries in both the short and long term. Sports Massage enhances performance and prolongs a sports career by helping to prevent injury, reduce pains and swelling in the body, relax the mind, increase flexibility, and dramatically improve recovery rates. Sports Massage is also highly effective in aiding the rapid recovery of an athlete from an injury by encouraging greater kinesthetic awareness and in turn promoting the body's natural immune function.
This treatment utilizes the EVO Q27 (3rd gen) Class IV Laser. The EVO puts out 27 watts of 4 different healing wavelengths (630, 810, 915, and 980nm) to deliver red light deep into the tissues of the body. Your body's cells convert the red light to perform functions that reduce inflammation, treat soft tissue damage, and increase blood flow and circulation.
This device includes built in protocols based on your body size, skin pigmentation, pain location, and where it lands on the acute to chronic scale to accurately set the dosage of treatment and to protect from over-treating the area.
In a 10 minute treatment period, you can see a reduction in pain, swelling, and inflammation while also stimulating tissue repair even after treatment has concluded. This treatment is also coupled with some stretching and other massage techniques to help enhance the work of the laser. Most will see improvement immediately, while others may see improvement within 3-5 sessions.
The best of both worlds. Taking part of your session to get the many benefits of Active Isolated Stretching, while following up the remainder with relaxation massage.
For 90 min treatments, typical sessions may be 30 mins of stretching followed by an hour long massage.