Formula For Success:
1 Listening
2 Functional Assessment
3 Targeted ART Treatment
4 Test for Immediate Results
5 Repeat as necessary
Why is ART® Different? Active Release Technique® is a soft-tissue management system with a medical patent.
There are over 500 specific protocols that are unique to ART® and include advanced long tract nerve entrapment protocols.
ART® is a true ‘hands-on’ treatment and requires a great deal of tactile sensitivity in order to locate, treat and finally feel the release of soft tissue restrictions and nerve impingements. During an ART® treatment, the practitioner must literally feel soft tissue structures and they translate and glide over each other. ART® uses very specific treatment protocols which are varied case by case to address a patients condition appropriately. ART® is not a cookie-cutter approach.
ART® is not massage therapy. ART® is not rolfing. ART® is not physiotherapy. ART® is not chiropractic care. ART® is not surgery. ART® is not like other soft-tissue or myofascial techniques.
Who Can Provide ART® Treatments?
Doctors and therapists go through approximently 2 years of post graduate training to become certified ART Providers.
Proficiency at ART® takes a long time to develop. Training is hands-on. The right touch is the most difficult aspect to learn, and takes a strong commitment of time, effort and resources. This multidisciplinary technique is practiced by Physicians, Chiropractors, Massage Therapists, Kinesiologists, and Sports Medicine practitioners.
ART® should only be provided by an ART® certified, soft-tissue specialist, who has been educated in all the ART clinical protocols and treatment techniques.
There are many people who claim to practice Active Release Techniques®. However, the only indivuduals who are legally allowed to make this claim are those who have undergone rigorous training and testing with Dr. Michael Leahy. ART practitioners must complete and passs all three sections of ART (Spine, Upper Extremity, and Lower Extremity) in order to receive their certification for Active Release Techniques. To maintain ART® accreditation, providers must pass a yearly evaluation in order to receive their recertification in the technique.
Sources: Release Your Pain, Dr. Brian Abelson http://www.drabelson.com/ , www.releaseyourbody.com 
