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Disciplines and Techniques

Good assessment and right techniques bring you the optimal results.  We strive to provide individualized plans based on your condition, and this helps to achieve your ultimate health goal so much faster than you expected.

Dynamic Neuromuscular Activation DNA™ 

Created by Albert Cortez, DNA combines various types of stretches including Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) with active release techniques, NMT, active and passive movements to relieve tension and pain, promote elasticity, blood flow, heal and strengthen the muscles. 

As an active and busy individual, he seeks dynamic workouts and stretches that are efficient and effective to fit into his lifestyle.  Having a background in dance and losing most of eyesight on the left eye with childhood trauma, he developed a sharpened sense of touch that can interpret the needs of what individual muscle needs to be awakened and work with its maximum potential.  This is the origin of DNA technique. 

DNA can create a sequence of workouts and stretches specifically design to each individual to have maximum training effect, shorten healing time, lose fat, and build muscles in a healthy way. DNA also educates each individual what is needed to empower them to be mindful with their bodies, and how they respond to the workouts.

As we realign our body structure with DNA technique, muscles and bones also make necessary changes. When this happens, the workouts and stretches also need to be advanced to meet the needs of this new updated version of self. 

In more scientific terms, the goal is to make sure that the body produces less cortisol “Stress Hormone”, builds muscles faster, and heals quicker. If an individual does workout with improper techniques and mechanics, its body will be in stress and produces more cortisol, and that leads to prolonged body aches and soreness, thus, it will hinder their progress.

Neuromuscular Therapy NMT

Is a highly specialized type of soft tissue therapy designed to relieve pain and return injured tissues to normal function. It utilizes specific, targeted soft tissue manipulation, flexibility stretching and self-care to eliminate the causes of most muscular aches and pains. It can provide long-term pain relief where other approaches have failed. Neuromuscular Therapy balances the nervous system with the muscular and skeletal systems and naturally brings the body back into alignment. It addresses postural and muscular imbalances, nerve entrapment, ischemia (reduced blood flow to an area of the body) and muscular trigger points.

Two American Doctors, Dr. Janet Travell and Dr. David Simons, published a two volume set of textbooks titled “The Trigger Point Manual on Upper Body and Lower Body Pain”. These volumes identified with research, documentation, and references that the source of most body pain was related to tiny “knots” in your muscles, or Trigger Points. As a result, a whole new field of study for chronic pain was introduced to the medical, dental, massage, and therapeutic communities, aptly called Neuromuscular Therapy.

​Dr. Janet Travell went on to become the first woman to hold the position of White House Physician and was the personal physician to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. JFK actually credits her Trigger Point / Neuromuscular Massage Therapy as the only effective treatment for his debilitating back pain that was so crippling he actually considered stepping down as President. President Kennedy once called her a “medical genius”. Dr. Travell is a huge inspiration to me personally and, through her work, was one of my primary mentors in my educational journey to become a Neuromuscular Therapist. 

Neuromuscular Reeducation NMR

Neuromuscular Reeducation is a “stand-alone” hands-on technique/approach to the evaluation and functional treatment of 90+% of the soft tissue injuries a professional will see in practice.

Every muscle in the body is surrounded by a smooth fascial sheath, every muscular fascicule and fibril are surrounded by fascia that can exert pressures of over 2,000 pounds per square inch. When an area is injured, whether it’s muscle, connective tissue, fascia, tendon or some combination of these elements (as most injuries are), the body handles this inflammatory response of the tissues to trauma the only way it knows how, through a hyperplasia of the affected tissue followed by a fibrous healing, the laying down of a less elastic, second grade, poorly vascularized scar tissue to protect the involved areas. Adhesions occur wherever damage and inflammation have occurred, and they limit both strength and range of motion.

Once there is fibrous healing these adhesions pull us out of a three-dimensional orientation with gravity. As a muscle tendon begins to stretch and encounters an adhesion, the muscle contracts to prevent any further stretching and to protect the area involved.

​The result is that the muscles involved are not as strong and the range of motion is limited in the involved joint. Adhesions can affect areas that are quite small, sometimes just a few muscle fibers, and other times there can be a number of areas like that scattered throughout a muscle group.

Myofascial Release Therapy​

Myofascial Release is a safe and very effective hands-on technique that involves applying gentle sustained pressure into the Myofascial connective tissue restrictions to eliminate pain and restore motion. This essential “time element” has to do with the viscous flow and the piezoelectric phenomenon: a low load (gentle pressure) applied slowly will allow a viscoelastic medium (fascia) to elongate.

Trauma, inflammatory responses, and/or surgical procedures create Myofascial restrictions that can produce tensile pressures of approximately 2,000 pounds per square inch on pain sensitive structures that do not show up in many of the standard tests (x-rays, myelograms, CAT scans, electromyography, etc.)

The use of Myofascial Release allows us to look at each patient as a unique individual. Our one-on-one therapy sessions are hands-on treatments during which our therapists use a multitude of Myofascial Release techniques and movement therapy. We promote independence through education in proper body mechanics and movement, self-treatment instruction, enhancement of strength, improved flexibility, and postural and movement awareness.

​Hands-On Treatment Each Myofascial Release Treatment session is performed directly on skin without oils, creams or machinery. This enables the therapist to accurately detect fascial restrictions and apply the appropriate amount of sustained pressure to facilitate release of the fascia.