Effects of Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization on Healthy Tissue Regarding Range of Motion and Gait

Instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization is a technique that is applied using specially designed tools/instruments to provide a mobilizing effect to soft tissues including the skin, fascia, muscles, and tendons by its various direct compressive stroke techniques on the gastroc/soleus complexes and Achilles tendons in the first session.

Movement itself should promote mobility so walking steadily for the same period of time as the IASTM had taken to complete is the sham treatment in second session.