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We map the restriction by hand first.
Graston Technique in Woodbridge.
Scar tissue and fascial restrictions your hands can feel but can’t quite break up finally give way to stainless steel instruments built to find exactly where they hide.
What It Is
Stainless steel tools, guided by trained hands.
When scar tissue or a fascial restriction has settled in, stretching and general massage can only do so much. Graston Technique is built to find that exact spot and work through it with more precision than a hand alone can manage.
It’s a specific, branded form of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization: a set of contoured, ergonomic stainless steel instruments, each shaped for a different area of the body, with edges more sensitive to scar tissue and fascial adhesions than fingers alone. As your therapist works the instrument over the area, it locates exactly where tissue is stuck and applies controlled pressure to break that restriction up.
Graston is one specific, patented method within the broader category of instrument-assisted soft tissue work, built around a defined set of tools and a structured protocol your physical therapist is trained in.
Always optional, never sprung on you
What It Helps
Where Graston Technique shines.
You’ve had that tightness so long you’ve stopped calling it a problem, it’s just how that shoulder feels now. It doesn’t have to be. If old scar tissue or a stubborn fascial restriction is limiting how a joint or muscle moves, Graston is often the fastest way to work through it.
A tendon that’s thickened and stiff from overuse
A low back that feels restricted layer by layer
Forearm and wrist tightness from repetitive motion
Old scar tissue from a past surgery or injury
A restriction that hands-on massage can’t quite break up
What A Session Looks Like
Three steps, one visit.
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The instrument goes to work. Pressure builds gradually, and it’s always your call how much.
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We retest the movement it was blocking, same visit.
Why It Works
Four reasons it earns a place in your plan.
Works through restrictions hands alone can’t reach.
Breaks up scar tissue that’s been there for years.
Follows a proven, repeatable protocol.
Backed by a plan with an endpoint, not a stand-alone fix.
Questions, Answered
Graston Technique, no mystery.
You’ll usually feel firm pressure and, over more restricted areas, some soreness similar to a deep massage. Mild redness at the surface is common and fades quickly. Noticeable bruising is less common, and we adjust pressure to your tolerance the entire session. It’s always your call how much pressure feels right.
Graston is one specific, branded example of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization, or IASTM, which is the broader category of technique. Graston uses a defined set of stainless steel tools and a trained protocol; other IASTM tools and methods exist, but Graston is one of the most established.
Graston Technique is typically billed as manual therapy within your physical therapy visit, and most plans that cover PT cover it. We verify your exact benefits before your first session, so there’s no surprise on your bill. Questions before then? Call us at (703) 763-3922.
Book Your Visit
Ready when you are.
Request a time and a real person calls you back, usually within two business hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.
- (703) 763-3922 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
- Same-week appointments available
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Request sent.
That’s the hard part done. We’ll call during business hours to lock in your time. Most people are on the schedule same week.
Visit Us
Care this good, this close.
Hoadly Road
- 12581 Milstead Way #201, Woodbridge, VA 22192 (opens in a new tab)
- (703) 763-3922
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- info@midcountypt.com
Lake Ridge
- 3421 Commission Ct suite 100-101, Woodbridge, VA 22192 (opens in a new tab)
- (571) 572-3061
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- info@midcountypt.com