Functional Performance Training is the key to restoring function and maintaining an active lifestyle. Through activity and sport-specific training,functional training helps to train balance, agility, and power for your whole body. Functional training involves the same movements you use in your daily life.
Functional training emphasizes movement patterns which are important for daily tasks and sport or recreational activities. In contrast to traditional strength training which isolates individual muscles, We will guide you in functionally integrated patterns that you will use in pushing, pulling, lifting, or carrying activities. We can will help you gain a basic movement literacy in the fundamental A,B,Cs of agility, balance, and coordination.
Diversified technique, spinal and extremity adjusting
Flexion Distraction
Spinal Decompression
Neuro-mobilization
Pelvic Blocking
Instrument Adjusting (Activator, Impulse)
Myofascial Release
Electrical Stimulation
Cold Laser
Sound Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization
PNF/PIR Stretching
Dr. Amato is Board Certified in rehabilitation
Functional Training
Home Exercise
Nutritional Counseling
Custom foot orthotics
We will coordinate care with your primary care doctor if needed or requested
Soft Tissue Mobilization
Soft tissue mobilization has been used to treat a number of diagnoses for some time. Sound Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (SASTM) is another form of this process, but it utilizes instruments designed for treatment of soft tissue disorders.
Based on literature and years of clinical research, the following list of disorders may respond well to treatment with this technique.