Orthopedic Manual Therapy (OMT) is a specialty of physiotherapy for the treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal disorders, based on clinical reasoning, and using highly specific treatment approaches including manual techniques and therapeutic exercises.

Treatment in manual therapy primarily pursues these goals:

• treatment of symptoms;
• Hypomobility mobilization;
• maintenance of mobility;
• Stabilization of hypermobility with targeted exercise to be performed at home;
• influence fascial tissue change by making use of verbal information, ongoing therapeutic information (postural Tape therapy) and instruction of therapeutic self-exercises, for the performance of increasingly targeted treatment of the dysfunctional causes (bone, capsular, ligament, tendon, muscle and fascial tissues) underlying pain.

Most commonly used techniques:

• Osteoarticular techniques (mobilizations and manipulations)
• Muscle and myofascial techniques (stretching, relaxation, treatment of trigger points)
• Fascial therapy and myofascial release
• Treatment of myofascial chains and functional compensations
• TGO and connective tissue techniques, active recruitment medical exercises (stabilization, muscle strengthening, proprioception, motor coordination, balance, etc.).
• Functional postural exercise programs to be performed at home
• Information about disorders with instruction in the management of movement, gestures, ergonomics, and posture in daily life
• Corrective/postural/inhibitory/facilitating/proprioceptive tape therapy
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