| Bodybuilders, both natural and chemically assisted, | | | | have ever experienced. The process actually involves |
| often feel invincible. After all, they are 20 to 40 pounds | | | | three separate ingredients. First, there is massage. |
| bigger, and much more muscular, than anyone in every | | | | That is normal and may be something you've |
| room they enter. They are strong, powerful, and | | | | experienced before. However, the addition of the |
| generally feel that as long as they eat, train, and rest | | | | second ingredient, motion, means that the chiropractor |
| by the rules; they will feel this strong forever. Age and | | | | is able to manipulate the muscle group in new ways. |
| chance are two influences which often feel otherwise. | | | | This process of 'dynamic' massage delivers benefits |
| As we age, our tendons lose some of their flexibility. It | | | | that static massage, in which the patient lies still, does |
| becomes harder to move our arms and legs than it | | | | not. Finally, the addiction of an electrical current is |
| was twenty years ago. Cartilage in the joints naturally | | | | applied to remove any pain sensations from the brain. |
| wears away, making the likelihood of an injury | | | | This allows the doctor to move and massage your |
| increase. Additionally, thanks to chance, we never | | | | arm in ways not possible before, and really reach the |
| know precisely the moment when our muscles will | | | | injured tendons. He or she then rubs the area to break |
| prove to be too strong for our tendons, and damage | | | | up the toxins and deposits which have accumulated in |
| will occur. We do know, however, that the stronger | | | | that area since the injury occurred. |
| we become, the closer we move to that injury arriving. | | | | Most people who experience active release therapy |
| If you do sustain an injury, follow these simple steps. | | | | are back at the gym, at 100% strength, in less than 4 |
| First, you should immediately ice the area and halt your | | | | sessions. It's that effective. The unique combination of |
| workout. The following morning, visit a doctor and have | | | | electricity, deep massage, and motion very often |
| the tendon checked for damage. The majority of the | | | | breaks up the injury and gives the tendon room to |
| time, the injury will just be a strained tendon. This | | | | heal. |
| occurs when it pops out of place briefly under a | | | | Your active release therapist may tell you something |
| workload the muscle can handle but the tendon | | | | you don't want to hear - that you sustained major joint |
| cannot. This may require weeks of rest for that | | | | damage and will require surgery. If this is the case, then |
| particular body part, but it won't cause any long-term | | | | you need to just take your lumps and sit out for a few |
| damage to your body. A torn tendon will require | | | | months. Use that time to perfect your nutrition or |
| surgery. If you are only suffering from a strain of the | | | | address a lagging body part, then come back with a |
| tendon, then active release therapy might just be right | | | | vengeance, ready to rehab that body part and return |
| for you. | | | | to your former glory! |
| The active release therapy itself will be like nothing you | | | | |