Meet Jean
Muscle Activation Specialist
Pain is not your enemy, it’s your indication that something is wrong.
My goal is to discover and eliminate imbalances within your neuromuscular system. Muscle activation techniques use pain, inflammation, and tension as a guide to the SOURCE of the problem.
Put simply, when some muscles aren’t communicating with the brain and other muscles step in and overperform, pain and tension occur. Your body is an electrical system. When muscles fire, they send signals to the brain that ignite healthy movement and performance. When a muscle is stressed, it stops firing. Other muscles compensate to keep motion possible, and these muscles feel tension and pain.
I re-activate muscles through hands-on Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT). I have helped clients who are post surgery, neurologically compromised by disease, suffering from chronic injury, want to increase their performance level, and those wishing to be stable and active as our bodies age.
Why Choose Muscle Activation?
It can help with
Performance Enhancement
Be the best version of yourself.
When your muscles are contracting properly your workout becomes more efficient, your motion reflexive and natural. You feel stronger, have better endurance and are less prone to injury.
Neurological Rehabilitation
Your body is an electrical system. When the feedback loop between the brain and a muscle is interrupted, movement is no longer reflexive and coordinated. Muscle Activation reestablishes this feedback loop between muscles and the brain so that injured and inhibited muscles are able to support motion in a natural and reflexive pattern, allowing for easy, coordinated motion.
Injury Recovery
Traditional therapies that focus on strengthening and stretching injured tissue can only take you so far. MAT “wakes up” the injured tissue, reignites its electrical pathways so that it can begin to “talk” to the brain, allowing for speedier recovery.
Stability Maintenance
Everyone wants to maintain their agility as they age. We see balance exercises everyday at the gym. But if your muscles aren’t contracting evenly around a joint, when you “balance” train you may recognize that your compensation patterns only get deeper. MAT is a systematic approach to identifying and correcting muscular imbalances that lead to these compensations therefore creating balance around each joint and so naturally reigniting agility and strength.
