Methods and Techniques

Most people hurt, with things like exercise, gardening, cycling, running, enjoying the outdoors, or playing golf for example, because one or more body tissues (e.g. muscle, tendon, joint cartilage, bone) are not strong enough to withstand the forces generated by those activities. The result is pain, aching, stiffness and swelling that keeps you from enjoying life.

Now, the reason that a muscle or tendon, for example in your knee, can’t tolerate the force of running, is due to two things: your body’s physical infrastructure and tissue strength.

Your physical infrastructure includes things like posture, specific muscle imbalances, inflexibility in key areas, and movement patterns. For example, a person with weak hip rotator muscles will be more likely to develop knee pain than a person with strong hip rotator muscles. The hip weakness creates focused and excessive loading on the knee leading to tissue damage or injury. Niemuth, P. E., R. J. Johnson, et al. (2005). “Hip muscle weakness and overuse injuries in recreational runners.” Clin J Sport Med 15(1): 14-21.

The result is that most people have both things going on. They have an injury and they have physical infrastructure faults. The key to getting back to doing the things you love to do is to address both the physical infrastructure problems – inflexibility, weakness, detrimental movement patterns – and the underlying tissue injury (muscle, tendon, cartilage, bone, disc, etc.).

Sports Center is for the person who wants to live a long, healthy and active life. And our clients’ success flows from one basic principle: Optimal physical function requires optimal physical training. Our approach is non-invasive, systematic and measurable.The method and techniques we use focus on treating your injury NOT just your symptoms.

That’s right, Sports Centers methods and techniques are not a stretch, massage and placate physical therapy methods. Passive, band-aid treatments only temporarily mask your discomfort and pain, and are rarely effective in returning you to a high level of physical capability. These methods compromise your ability to exercise and lead to premature aging and the early onset of other diseases. We’d never roll the dice with your body like that.

We may use any combination of the techniques below to balance muscle strength, improve flexibility, and optimize movement patterns:

• Target Tissue Training (T3). The Founder of Sports Center, Doug Kelsey, developed this special form of exercise based on the science of mechanobiology – the study of how mechanical forces generated within or imposed upon living tissues affect physiology and structure of that tissue. T3 optimizes exercise dosage – reps, sets, frequency, intensity – to produce healthy adaptation or strengthening in weak or injured tissues. T3 rebuilds your tissue strength from the inside out.
• Unloading. Also developed by Founder, Doug Kelsey, Unloading reduces the effect of gravity using special machines to make exercise pain free.
• Vector Training. A technique borrowed from NASA research, by using forces attached to your body at right angles, we can help your muscles work harder without overloading your joints.
• Dynamic Assistance Training. When it hurts to move your arm, for example, we may use this technique to help re-establish normal motion and strength.
• Manual Therapy. We’ll use joint mobilization, myofascial stretching and other manaul techniques as indicated to reduce your pain and help you move more comfortably.
• Kinesiotape. This is a highly elastic yet comfortable tape that we use to reduce symptoms of stiffness, aching, pain, and swelling.
• Core Training. Nearly every client with back pain needs this form of exercise designed to increase the endurance of the muscles that support your spine.

Sports Center restores your physical and athletic capabilities by:

• Clearly defining your short and long term goals.
• Accurately identifying your specific injury.
• Properly identifying any relevant biomechanical problems or concerns.
• Clearly establishing physical markers and success indicators – how we’ll measure your progress.
• Creating a customized rebuilding strategy and coaching you every step of the way.
• Providing you a state-of-the-art, gravity controlled training center.
• Teaching you how to maintain a lifetime of success.

Don’t settle for a lifetime of inactivity. Learn the steps you’ll go through in our rebuilding process, or schedule a consultation today.