Myotherapy

Myotherapy treatment involves an extensive physical evaluation with an integrated approach to the treatment of involved muscles, joints and nerves. Myotherapy can be utilized to treat acute and chronic conditions, as well as in the area of preventative management and prescriptive exercises. Myotherapists aspire to become physical therapists.

A distinguishing feature of Myotherapy is the clinical reasoning used, in which standard methods of evaluation are used such as orthopaedic tests, postural assessment, neurological and functional testing in conjunction with a thorough palpatory assessment of the spine, peripheral joint play, and the contractile evaluation of musculature.

Myotherapists are alternative practitioners, although they are currently often the last point of call for many patients. Currently, a Myotherapy qualification can be obtained at several tertiary institutions. In Australia, there is currently only one not-for-profit institution that provides a degree level Myotherapy qualification. In time, students graduating from this university will be known as Clinical Myotherapists, which will then differentiate between Myotherapists with a Bachelor degree, and those with an Advanced Diploma.