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We feel for where the tissue changes texture.
IASTM in New Orleans.
Scar tissue doesn’t loosen with time alone. IASTM (instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization) uses a smooth-edged tool to get purchase where a hand keeps sliding over.
What It Is
The instrument is the whole point.
Some tissue changes texture. An old surgical scar, a strain that healed tight, a tendon thickened by years of the same motion. It stops sliding cleanly against whatever sits next to it, and that is what limits how you move.
IASTM (instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization) uses a smooth-edged stainless steel tool, drawn across the skin over that tissue. The instrument does two things a hand cannot: it concentrates pressure into a narrow line, and it feeds texture back, so your therapist can feel where the restriction starts and where it stops.
Nothing is being ground away. It is a controlled input that makes a fibrous area willing to move again, which is why you load that area with exercise in the same visit rather than going home to rest it.
Pressure you approve as we go
What It Helps
Where the tissue itself has changed.
You got hurt, you got on with it, and you’ve been calling it your bad ankle ever since. Old isn’t the same as permanent.
What A Session Looks Like
Tool first, exercise straight after.
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The instrument works that line of tissue.
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You load it straight away, same visit.
Why It Works
Four reasons the tool earns its place.
Gets purchase on tissue a hand slides over.
The instrument tells us where to work.
Narrow, targeted, and easy to dose.
Sets up the loading that follows it.
Questions, Answered
Yes, it’s the scraping one.
It feels like firm scraping pressure and it should stay something you can breathe through. Some pink flushing of the skin is normal and fades. Heavy bruising is not the goal and is not proof it worked. Tell us if you take blood thinners or have a skin condition over the area, because that changes whether the instrument is the right tool for you.
No. A massage, or a foam roller, spreads pressure over a wide area and tells you nothing about what it just crossed. The instrument concentrates that pressure into a narrow line and feeds texture back to a licensed physical therapist, so the work lands on the restriction instead of everywhere around it, then gets loaded with exercise in the same visit.
It is done inside a physical therapy visit, so it follows your PT benefits rather than being billed as its own package. We check your coverage before your first session, and what you sign up for is a plan with an endpoint, not an open-ended course of treatment. Questions before then? Call us at (504) 733-0254.
Book Your Visit
Ready when you are.
Request a time and a real person calls you back. No phone tree, no ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.
- Hours Mon to Fri, 7:00am to 6:00pm
- (504) 733-0254 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
- Insurance benefits check before you book
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Five short questions. About a minute.
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Request sent.
That’s the hard part done. We’ll call during business hours to lock in your time.
Visit Us
Three clinics. One phone number.
Westbank, Marigny, Elmwood. Whichever is closest, you get the same care and the same number to call.
Harvey (Westbank)
- 1530 Lapalco Blvd #21, Harvey, LA 70058 (opens in a new tab)
- (504) 733-0254
- Fax: (504) 734-8869
- info@magnoliatherapyla.com
- Mon to Fri, 7:00am to 6:00pm
New Orleans (Marigny)
- 2372 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117 (opens in a new tab)
- (504) 733-0254
- Fax: (504) 734-8869
- info@magnoliatherapyla.com
- Mon to Fri, 7:00am to 6:00pm
Harahan (Elmwood)
- 5606 Jefferson Highway, Harahan, LA 70123 (opens in a new tab)
- (504) 733-0254
- Fax: (504) 734-8869
- info@magnoliatherapyla.com
- Mon to Fri, 7:00am to 6:00pm