Welcome to Made to move
Made to Move is a practice utilizing Shockwave Therapy and Muscle Activation TechniquesTM.
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Our purpose is to aide and catalyze recovery by employing shockwave and MAT to address inflammation and muscular dysfunction both locally and globally in the body.
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Shockwave is a modality utilizing a medical-grade rESWT device to deliver radial pressure waves on the skin around a localized area of pain in your body in order to kickstart your body's recovery response. Shockwave stimulates tissue, cellular and nerve repair as well as decreases inflammation and muscle pain over time.
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MAT takes a global look at the body and addresses muscle contractile dysfunction. By ensuring that every muscle in the body is contracting appropriately, recovery can happen throughout the whole system. Decreased risk of future injury, decreased inflammation, increased muscle contractability, decreased joint and muscle pain and improved recovery performance are just a few benefits MAT can have on the body.
More about the Modalities
MATTM is a technique that assesses range of motion to pin point areas in your body where there may be muscle weakness.
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Our bodies can develop muscle weaknesses and imbalances due to stress, trauma, and/or overuse. This, in turn, causes other muscles to strain, tighten and get overworked as a result of their compensation. Furthermore, joints will begin to experience wear and tear due to the instability of the muscular support surrounding them.
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MATTM addresses such pain and discomfort by going to the root cause of the issue- the muscle weaknesses that are causing the compensations in the first place. That way you can MOVE the way you were MADE to: without pain or discomfort.
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SHOCKWAVE is a more direct, localized approach to the areas causing you pain and discomfort. The rESWT device utilizes air compression to launch a projectile into the head of a shockwave gun. This is knietic energy. Upon impact with the shockwave gun head, this kinetic energy is then translated into sound energy- creating radial pressure waves (hence the name shockwave!).
These waves are what goes into the inflamed tissue causing a microtrauma to the area. By doing so, a repair response is stimulated for your body. As a result, there is increased blood flow, increased ATP production at the cellular level and transitioning the body from a catabolic to an anabolic state.
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This state of recovery renders results months after the final treatment of shockwave. ESWT modality is designed to reset and kickstart your body's own natural healing response to chronic inflammation and pain.