Now available throughout Europe and New Zealand. To introduce the machines to these markets we are sending out no charge introductory samples to suitable practitioners. To get one please click here.

 

Now it's finally much easier for practitioners to help their patients who have extensive muscular and other soft tissue problems.

We've developed a strongly built but economical machine that easily and quickly takes care of deep trigger points and the like, without causing pain for patients or causing long term damage to practitioner's bodies. The machine is so easy to use that and works so well that qualified musculoskeletal practitioners often have patients do supplementary work at home under their guidance rather incur additional time and expense of large numbers of visits to a masseur.

 

Introduction for Practitioners

If you are a practitioner who regularly deals with conditions involving chronic myofascial (muscular) issues then you will appreciate that dealing with these issues usually takes a considerable amount of time and effort. Also, whether it's massage, pressure techniques, dry needling or whatever, this effort usually has to be repeated regularly over a period of time to achieve proper resolution rather than just temporary relief .

It is very sad, but in the real world this takes up so much time and costs a so much money that most people get just enough to get some temporary relief, but not enough to rid the myofascial (muscular) issues completely. With these issues unresolved, symptoms keep returning and the underlying condition can gradually deteriorate.

My name is Graeme Blennerhassett, a Chiropractor with nearly 20 years experience with a strong focus on muscular and other soft tissue problems. I had the same challenges, and we've evolved a two part solution. This is what we do in our clinic. I'm sure other properly qualified musculoskeletal practitioners can do something similar.

Clinical care

Most of us learned some really good manual techniques at college to deal with muscular issues such as myofascial trigger points, fascial adhesions and so forth. They do a great job, but they are time consuming, painful for patients, and repetitive applications cause long term damage to practitioner's bodies. As a result, over time practitioners tend to reduce or eliminate these from their practices, or the responsibility is passed onto another practitioner such as a masseur or a myotherapist.

There are a few issues with this. It means extra time and expense for patients, and there are some "muscular" things that really need to be done at the same time as other things get done, not another time when one visits the masseur. To put this simply and in terms a patient would understand, it's not much use making an adjustment then dealing with the stabilising muscles another day. The adjustment would be lost by the time the patient got to the masseur.

The beauty of the DrGraeme Deep Tissue massager is that it makes it fast and easy for a practitioner to take care of trigger points and the like, with the added bonus of it being much nicer on patients than manual methods.

Supplementary home massage

One day I was when using a massage machine on a patient with extensive problems. Suddenly I had a "blinding flash of the obvious". I thought it's not rocket science, why not get the patient to hold the machine while I have a cup of tea. When I returned with my cup of tea the patient had done a great job. That was the beginning of our getting patients to do supplementary massage at home.

To get this to a practical level where we got consistent results we needed to find a suitable machine, and to develop systems for instructing patients and monitoring progress.

We needed to find a suitable machine because my massager cost about $500 which made it too expensive for patients. Also, it was designed for practitioners to use on other people so it was too big and cumbersome for patients to use on themselves. On the other hand, the machines you see in the shops were more reasonably priced and easier to use on oneself, but were no where near as effective as I would have liked.

It was a matter of necessity. To supply patients with something economical, easy to use, and most important that did a great job we had to have a machine especially built. The result was our DrGraeme Deep Tissue Massager.

Even the best tools can be useless if used incorrectly, so we've had to put together a good system for instructing patients. Our patient instruction DVD brings together the results of several years instructing patients and monitoring the results. We've seen pretty much every way a patient can use a machine ineffectively, and used countless ways to explain things. I guess we've learned something through the process. The DVD seems to cover all bases in a way that gets the message across, and have patients use them consistently well. We supply practices with a master copy of this DVD so they can either show it to patients in clinic, or run off copies for them to take home.

Introduction for Patients

The DrGraeme Deep Tissue Massager forms part of a system where a qualified musculoskeletal practitioner can take care of many myofascial (muscular) issues more easily and economically. They may do this by either i) using a machine in clinic themselves, used by a patient under advice as "homework", or iii) both.

Most massagers are sold directly to patients by practitioners who use them and can give the appropriate advice. If you want a machine we suggest you consult the list and find someone convenient. If there is no practitioner on our list in your area you may contact us directly and we will work something out.