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New Small Business Delivers COVID-Friendly Self-Care by Bringing Physical Therapy into Homes to Alleviate Pain

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Thursday, January 14, 2021

St Active launches the Fiix Elbow that automates a proven clinical procedure for tennis elbow for self-care at home.

Key Points: 
  • St Active launches the Fiix Elbow that automates a proven clinical procedure for tennis elbow for self-care at home.
  • Up to 10 million people in the U.S. are affected annually by tennis elbow, but less than five percent actually get it from a racquet sport.
  • The Fiix Elbow is the brainchild of physical therapist Nate Stier, MPT, LAT, the co-owner of OSR Physical Therapy clinics in the Minneapolis/St.
  • Stier recommended a proven clinical therapy instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM), also known as Graston Technique, HawkGrip or Gua Sha.