MUSCLE MANAGEMENT
Improving muscle flexibility and strength is the third and final part of our 3 major goals.

Goals:       Structural balance & symmetry
    Good joint mobility
    Flexible & strong muscles

Muscle Management is one of the two methods we use to achieve muscle flexibility & strength.
Domino Effect of the Trigger Point:
1.   Repetitive activities using a specific muscle or muscle group.
2.   Trigger point develops in muscle fibers.
3.   Blood flow (food and oxygen) is reduced to muscle fibers.
4.   Muscle fibers shorten due to reduced blood flow.
5.   Muscle feels "tight" due to being shortened
6.   Strength = length: therefore muscle strength is compromised
7.   Recovery from exercise or injury requires more time
8.   Increased vulnerability to injury
9.   Reduced flexibility.
10. Reduced performance.
These changes caused by trigger points cause a breeding ground for all of the injuries seen in rehabilitation
and sports medicine. Most work and sports injuries today are due to pulls, imbalances, inflammations, stress
fractures and other pains associated with trigger point involvement. Muscle Management is a system designed
to both eliminate and prevent trigger points, and will contribute greatly to the resolution of many common
injuries in workers and athletes today. The main method we utilize in muscle management is a device called
The Stick®. (Click for more details about The Stick®.)
“Trigger Points dictate sports.”
    Coach Al Miller
    National Soccer Hall of Fame


Muscle Management (also known as neuromuscular re-education) is a fantastic
way to eliminate the tender little knots typically found in a patient’s muscles.
Those chronic painful knots are known as trigger points. If untreated they
literally can, and usually do, last a lifetime.

Trigger Points:
Trigger points are the accumulation of waste products in a muscle. These
accumulations occur the more a muscle is used. In every job, whether it is a
construction worker or a secretary, people have repetitively used muscles.
These muscles both produce and accumulate waste products, ultimately
becoming trigger points. The daily activities a person performs will use certain
muscles.  This will dictate the most common sites of potential injury.

Once a trigger point has formed in a muscle fiber, a variety of changes take
place in that muscle.
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