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Welcome to Muscle Management
Often times:
There is a muscular component contributing to pain. A skilled manual therapist can reduce the problems within specific muscles. A self help enthusiast with adequate informatiom can help themselves. Pain can be reduced rather quickly. Its a matter of having information and guidance.
Muscle Management® continues to offer unique and effective resources for the manual therapist seeking continuing education and the self-help enthusiast looking for information and answers.
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Chances are you came here searching for information, for alternatives and answers about pain...yours, your family member, your friends, or maybe even a clients. We are here to offer information about the muscular component 'participating' in that pain...and that is the focus of 'Muscle Management', relieving pain and restoring function by focusing precision therapy on the muscles.
We offer unique insight's into the human body's natural built-in maintenance, recovery and health management abilities with respect to it's largest and most often under-appreciated system…The Muscles.
"Disease does not occur unexpectedly. It is the result of constant violation of Nature's laws, spreading and accumulation of such violations transpire suddenly in the form of a disease....but it only seems sudden." Hippocrates
Each and every day we 'live and work' within an incredibly wonderful example of engineering, strength, and efficient design... Our own body!! This incredible "machine" is greatly influenced by a very commonsense organization of ropes, pulleys, and levers… the muscles, tendons, and skeleton. Muscle Management® is about managing all of the above by means of respecting and responding to the vital role muscles play in our bodies overall well-being.
Our intention is to encourage, promote, and maintain healthy states of balance and ease through recognizing, respecting and responding to the important role the body's muscles play in overall well being. Muscular health can often be a primary contributing factor in many muscular/skeletal situations.
Muscle movement constantly shapes the quality of our daily lives. Problems with this system can often be a primary contributing factor to situations where we are more tense, irritable, fatigued, less active... and in PAIN!!!. Negative influences can include everyday pressures and stresses, repetitive motions, mismanaged injuries (especially in athletes), whiplash trauma and conditions like fibromyalgia or arthritis which often produce muscular or "soft tissue" tension and pain.
Pain can often be so relentless and wide spread that it requires radical medical intervention. However In many cases, pain management clinicians have found that pain often responds to non-invasive corrective massage that targets specific problematic muscles. This 'Muscle Management' approach is often described as "ischemic compression," "soft tissue release", "acupressure", and deep tissue massage among many other terms. These related disciplines usually produce muscular relaxation, making it possible to return to pain-free fitness and health. We refer to our approach as “corrective massage ” with the additional intention of correcting common distortions.
Consider that in the year 2000, according to our own [CDC](http://search.cdc.gov/search97cgi/s97is.dll?queryText=musculoskeletal&B1=Search&SortField=score&Action=FilterSearch&Collection=cdcall1&ResultTemplate=nsearchresult.hts&filter=newsearch.hts) , more visits to physicians’ offices were made for musculoskeletal conditions than for any other reason.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), repetitive strain injuries are the nation's most common and costly occupational health problem, affecting hundreds of thousands of American workers, and costing more than $20 billion a year in workers compensation. Maybe with a bit more understanding, this figure won't get much more out of control.
Our [Self Help](selfhelp/index.htm) section can be useful for those looking to take an active role in their own Muscle Management.
We are scheduling [ classes](classes/index_2008.htm) throughout the country. We have a [Sponsorship Program](classes/sponsors.htm) for individuals interested in bringing this information to their area and an [Associate Program](classes/schools.htm) for accredited schools interested in bringing classes to their region.
"Disease does not occur unexpectedly. It is the result of constant violation of Nature's laws, spreading and accumulation of such violations transpire suddenly in the form of a disease....but it only seems sudden."
--Hippocrates
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