Is your muscle memory helping or hindering your health and performance?

Muscle memory plays a role in every aspect of your daily life. Everything you have learned how to do—muscle memory made it so. Think back for a moment to a time when you watched a young child learning to walk. In the beginning, the child struggled with balance. However, over time the child not only began to walk, but also began to run, play, and develop fine motor skills.

The combination of time and repetition ingrains an optimal and active muscle memory that allows us to live the life we desire.

So how can muscle memory work against you? Think of a time when you felt stressed. Where did you feel it? Many of us will feel tightness in the back of the neck and shoulders. This tightness is due to the muscle fibers shortening. I refer to this shortening pattern as a chronic contraction. If chronic contractions are left unaddressed, the contracted muscle fibers become conditioned to stay that way. This in turn decreases circulation to the surrounding body tissues, creates undo pressure and tension on the bones, joints, discs and ligaments, and greatly decreases range of motion. Not to mention it’s uncomfortable.

Chronic injuries, surgeries, accidents, traumas, poor posture at work, and increased stress are also factors that lead to harmful muscle memories. These conditions can intensify over a lifetime and they cause us to disconnect from our highest potential, decrease our immunity and set the stage for premature aging and poor performance.

If you are experiencing increased stress, decreased flexibility, pain and discomfort in your head, neck, shoulders, back, hips, and lower body, then Inner-Active Therapy is right for you. All of us walking around this planet are harboring both helpful and harmful muscle memories in our bodies. If you are someone who wants to learn how to release hindering chronic contractions from your system and reclaim an optimal quality of life, I can help.

Inner-Active Therapy reprograms muscle fibers by using medical massage to locate and release the chronic contractions. You are then given individualized stretches and exercises that reprogram your body to hold its newfound balance. Each program is uniquely designed to address the client’s needs. Whether you are an athlete who wants to gain that extra edge and reclaim your flexibility, or you are healing from a specific health imbalance, I can help you with a specially designed Inner-Active Therapy program. Get started today!