Osteopathy Health Consultancy & Rehabilitation Specialists's Posts

**How does FAR Work** Using hands-on detailed palpation in combination with a details history and an active functional examination – the aim is to find key areas of muscle dysfunction. Identifying the parts of a muscle that do not fully contract and thereby not providing the power they could or where only part of the muscle is contributing to the overall movement is key to knowing where to treat. Often these areas have reduced blood flow due to being chronically tight and sometimes tender. These areas may not be the site of the reported symptoms however. The pain patients report may be quite a distance above or below the contracted area. A combination of localised pressure and active resistance from the patient allows a focal point of tension to be established. Asking the patient to then contract and relax the area over a range of movement being guided carefully by the practitioner allows arcs of poor quality movement to be identified and gradually enhanced. During this process the painfu