Dear Drs.,
I have a colleague here who told me she had a real bad muscle contracture on her upper back region a few years back and that she had tried everything to treat it.
She told me nothing worked until she went to a PT and had 4 sessions of massages.
I’ve read some of your pain science content (extremely interesting) and I know what your take is on PTs and massages but I’d just like your thoughts on her experience. In this case were the massages actually useful to at least reduce/remove symptoms of the contracture? Was it all just placebo or just healing over time? Is there a difference between removing the symptoms and actually healing the contracture in this context?
Also, do you have any references of studies done on this kind of issue? I haven’t found anything…
Thank you very much!
Matteo