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What is Muscle Activation Techniques, or MAT™? MAT looks at a muscle’s tightness as a form of protection in the body. Weak or inhibited muscles can create the need for other muscles to tighten up in order to help stabilize the joints. MAT gets to the root of pain or injury by addres
sing muscle weakness rather than muscle tightness. This helps to restore normal body alignment, thereby, decreasing pain and reducing the risk of injury.
• Bridging the Gap Between Fitness and Rehabilitation
MAT enables you a new lease on your active lifestyle. With MAT, you can return to the golf course, tennis court, ski slopes or athletic field with renewed strength and without pain. With MAT, athletes of all ages will perform at a higher level without injury, allowing them to "stay in the game". MAT will give you one-on-one personal attention with an MAT certified specialist with each client being treated up to one full hour, never being handed over to an assistant. Treating everyday people like million dollar athletes! What makes MAT™ unique? - While most therapies focus on treating the muscles with tension and/or pain, MAT gets to the root of pain or injury by addressing muscle weakness rather than muscle tightness. MAT views muscle tightness as a form of protection in the body. The goal of MAT is to identify the inhibited or weak muscles that are creating a protective response and then ‘jumpstart’ these muscles in order to improve their contractile capability. If the tight muscles are stretched or massaged—without addressing the root cause, the inhibited or weak muscle—then we may have violated the body’s protective mechanism. We must know that when we increase range of motion through modalities like stretching or massage, that there is also stability through that increased range. MAT provides the checks and balances system to make sure that this happens. That is why MAT is a great adjunct to all forms of exercise and therapy. What if I am an athlete, will MAT™ help improve my performance and keep me healthy? MAT is a technique that not only helps athletes to recover from injuries quickly, but also helps them prevent injuries from happening in the first place. MAT prepares the body to be more efficient in training and athletic performance. In order to reach optimal performance capabilities, an athlete is forced to train at a high level of intensity. Because of this, there is always the potential for injury. Some athletes may be predisposed to an injury, due to them having muscular imbalances that place increased stress on their joints and tissues. These athletes can be an injury waiting to happen. When they train at a high level, the imbalances are magnified, and the body can no longer handle the stress. It eventually breaks down. It is like driving a car with bad alignment. The faster you drive it, the faster the tires are going to wear out. The body functions the same way. If an athlete has muscular imbalances, the abnormal alignment results in increased stress on the joints and muscles. When an athlete trains at a high level of intensity, the stresses are magnified and injuries occur. The goal of MAT is to correct the problem before an injury occurs. And injury is just a ‘symptom’ of a deeper issue. The symptom is not the problem. It is a result of the overstressing of an area of the body, due to muscular imbalances. Conventional therapy will typically treat the symptom. This means that the cause of the injury is not being addressed. The end result is that the athlete does not heal, or they go on to experience a more severe injury. MAT™ not only helps to prevent injuries, but it can also speed up the rehabilitation process. By balancing the muscular system, MAT provides an improved environment for healing. This allows the athlete to return to participation faster. The end result is improved athletic capabilities. “The benefit of MAT is that the changes can be immediate” says Greg Roskopf, the founder and developer of MAT. “A professional baseball pitcher increased his throwing velocity by 10 mph, immediately following an MAT session. This was due to improved mechanics combined with pain free motion. I see these types of changes every day.”
Anette Lynch
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