How can someone with a severe ankle sprain or hamstring pull recover so quickly with this treatment?
Injuries to muscle and bone heal at a predictable rate. This has been demonstrated over and again in medical journals. In fact, muscle, due to its large blood supply, has a fairly short healing time of around 3 – 4 days. When fascial injuries are manually corrected, the muscle is allowed to fully heal at its optimal unobstructed rate. The injuries you asked about are, in most cases, primarily injuries to the fascial tissue. This explains why an injury that has been cleared as uncomplicated (by x-ray, MRI, CT scan, and orthopedic examination) will still require anywhere from 2 – 6 weeks of traditional RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation) to “heal” and as many of you are well aware this “healing” almost never returns the area of injury to the level of performance it enjoyed prior to the injury.
