KEEPING ATHLETES MOVING FOR 33 YEARS

ABOUT DAN

Dan Selstad, ATC, is a certified athletic trainer and a credentialed ART provider. He treats the full range of repetitive strain and stress-related injuries.

Dan's clients include professional athletes, amateur athletes, office workers, musicians, and others.

Dan's Performance Care practice is located in the state-of-the-art Sheppard Spine and Sports Clinic in Solana Beach.

ABOUT ART

What Is Performance Care?

Performance care is soft-tissue treatment to improve an athlete's performance in his or her chosen sport.

What Is ART?

Active Release Therapy (ART) is a patented, state-of-the-art system that treats problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and nerves.

How Does ART Work?

When an injury occurs, it produces abnormal texture, tension, and length in the affected tissues. The result is pain, reduced range of motion, loss of strength, and decreased athletic performance.

In ART treatment, the practitioner identifies exactly which tissues are affected in each patient. Then, the practitioner applies carefully selected ART treatment protocols to restore the tissue to its normal texture, tension, and length.

There are over 500 ART protocols. Each one is a combination of precisely directed tension and very specific patient movements.

Is Active Release Therapy for Me?

ART can quickly and permanently resolve many conditions that result from injury to over-used muscles, including:

Headaches
Back pain
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Shin splints
Shoulder pain
Sciatica
Plantar fasciitis
Tennis elbow

The cumulative injury cycle is self-perpetuating. To resolve the condition, it is necessary to find and treat the cause. ART treatments can locate and resolve the root cause of many cumulative injury conditions.