What is “Micro-trauma Maintenance Therapy?”
Micro-traumas are the results of constant repeated motion. MTMT aims to treat these traumas in order to maintain soft tissue suppleness. Through the combination of active, isolated stretching (AIS), simple exercise, and massage therapy, Raju Mantina has developed a technique that vastly improves injury recovery, by decreasing recovery time, lessening injury-related pain, and preventing future trauma. An injury or blockage that may have taken months to heal can, many times, be removed in less than an hour. Micro-trauma Maintenance Therapy can be adapted to use on any client, and we believe it will be the new wave of success in medical massage therapy.
Mission Statement
With our AIS stretching, exercise, massage technique, we aim to advance the treatment of moderate tears, potentially expanding this care past the field of surgery. Dealing particularly with soft tissue tears, we specialize in surgery preparation and rehabilitation, professional athletic preparation, and chronic pain resulting from lack of suppleness (i.e. back pain, shoulder pain, etc.) Ultimately, we aim to reduce the client’s pain so that he/she can perform at a peak state in his/her everyday life.
MASSAGE
Massage is the most important element of recovery. It improves and even speeds up the rehabilitation process. However, massage alone is not the most effective form of recovery. This therapy is most effective when partnered with stretching (AIS) and exercise.
EXERCISE
The importance of exercise within the massage field is often neglected. Exercise is immensely important as a recovery tactic, especially when preparing one’s body to undergo massage work. It facilitates the therapist’s ability to pinpoint issues.
STRETCHING
Stretching, specifically active, isolated stretching, is another neglected area of massage. Stretching lengthens the soft tissue. The balance of massage, stretching (AIS), and exercise makes up the ideal recovery model.
EDUCATION
Although his passion for this work is great, Mr. Mantina’s true calling lies within education. He wishes to share this impressive form of therapy with other therapists and ultimately aims to progress the treatment of moderate tears.
Rockville massage therapist says make time to stretch
By Lenny Bernstein Blogger July 30, 2013
Don’t tell Raju Mantina you can’t find the time to stretch every day. I tried, and he would have none of it.
Fifteen to 60 minutes every night before you go to bed, he says in a tone that leaves no room for argument. “People tell me, ‘I don’t have time to exercise and to stretch,’ ” he tells me in an accent still heavy with the tones of his native India. “I am not one who will listen to this. It’s a total lie.”
There are a lot of massage therapists and trainers out there. I’ve met quite a few in the more than four years that I’ve written this column. Not many approach their work with Mantina’s missionary zeal.
“Movement is an opportunity, not an inconvenience,” he tells me. “That [should be] the mentality of our entire life.”
Stretching and massage are not part of my fitness routine, but I went to see Mantina, 57, last week at the practice he maintains in his Rockville home. I was just back from a vacation that included four days of strenuous hiking in southern Utah, and my legs, which are always tight, were particularly stiff. A friend at The Post whom Mantina has stretched and massaged for years recommended him.
When I learned that Mantina had worked on athletes at the 2000, 2002 and 2004 Olympics and at four U.S. Olympic track and field trials, I decided to give him a try. My skepticism waned when I saw photos of Mantina with Kenenisa Bikele, the Ethiopian world record holder in the 5,000- and 10,000-meter runs who is widely considered one of the greatest distance runners in history, and Hicham El-Guerroui, the Moroccan who holds the world records in both the mile and the 1,500-meter races. Mantina’s walls are adorned with photos and posters of other Olympic athletes and with his credentials from those games.
Mantina, once a university-level track and field athlete in Hyderabad, India, volunteers that he was secretly an alcoholic the entire time, for most of his adult life in fact — a bottle-a-day drinker who had previously worked as a gardener and run a liquor store. After he injured his back working in his garden and received massage therapy himself, he decided to change his career. He trained at the Potomac Massage Training Institute and opened a practice. He says he has been sober for 10 months.
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