Graston Technique

I was working on one of my patients this week and had been doing some Graston work with her right hamstring when I noticed a very prominent linear red mark (petechiae) start to materialize.  The area in question had been different than what we had been previously working on but it coincided with where her leg had been recently bothering her.  With her lying on her stomach I asked her to blindly point to where her new pain is located.  She immediately pointed to the highlighted area that had shown up with the Graston work, the semitendinosus tendon.  I have been using Graston for over two years now and it is cases like this that make it invaluable as a therapuetic modality to patients and it is also an invaluable tool for showing patients where their pain is objectively.  When I do this on minor patients it is good for the parents to see the redness show up exactly where the patient says it is, because nine times out of ten the parent has some type of preconceived notion as to the legitimacy of the injury.

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