Abolish stretching routines with M.A.T

I am looking forward to having an MAT assessment done some time in the next couple of weeks with a local trainer, Gavin Frecklington.

MAT stands for Muscle Activation Technique and is a revolutionary way to treat muscular pain and dysfunction. Usually if you saw a strength coach they would look at what muscles were weak and try and strengthen them. If you saw a physio or chiropracter then they would look for muscular tightness and use stretching or trigger point relief to remedy this.

The best analogy to use to describe MAT is to imagine if you went on to ice, immediately your body tenses and tightens up as it recognises an unstable surface. If your brain recognises an unstable joint then as a protective mechanism it will look to tighten that joint up.

Chronic pain and injury can be a thing of the past if the reason for the pain is looked at from the opposite position, as an instability problem instead of a tightness or muscular weakness.

This sort of treatment would benefit anyone from high performance athletes to pensioners. Anyone who has pain in any area of the body would reap the rewards.



I've heard good things about the reults that can be obtained from this type of therapy and myself have experienced A.R.T (Active Release Technique) which is a similar concept of looking for the original source of pain, not just the problem area.

If your someone who has tried every flexibility routine under the sun, have seen all sorts of different specialists all who whom haven't been able to effectively diagnose and fix your  pain then I suggest you look into this type of treatment. More information can be found at http://www.muscleactivation.com/.