The Process
At New Freedom, each client will achieve their health and wellness goals by personalized treatment plans using a blend of the comprehensive, complimentary techniques listed below
After consulting you on which movements and areas aggravate your pain, the practitioner assesses the joints, ligaments, and muscles, searching for fibrosis, adhesions, and other soft-tissue abnormalities.
Once abnormalities are diagnosed, the practitioner uses guided movements and hands-on treatment that breaks up adhesions, quickly relieves pain, and restores function.
Unlike Muscle Activation Techniques and Square One, it emphasizes direct palpations to release tissue adhesions and relieve fibrosis in muscles, ligaments, tissues and fascia.
Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT) fixes disruptions in brain-muscle communication caused by stress, blunt trauma and/or injuries. Which
lead to symptoms like compensation/overuse injuries (muscle pulls, strains), and overall breakdown.
The practitioner identifies joints inhibited by broken brain-muscle communication using range of motion tests and stability tests (unbroken brain-muscle communication loop).
Once a muscle instability is found, the practitioner uses palpations to stimulate the sensory receptors (called proprioceptors) embedded in the muscle fibers. Once the brain detects the stimulated muscle, the brain-muscle communication loop reestablishes, and reintegrate that activated muscle back into the body's movement patterns.
This allows the body to absorb greater forces, move faster, stronger, removing the imbalances that break you down, restoring proper, pain-free function.
Square One System directly address how the brain interprets and responds to stress.
It does so by working directly with the nervous system.
Movement, coordination, and pain are directed by your brain, the command center for every physical change. Your brain constantly integrates input from your eyes, inner ear and body awareness systems to coordinate balance, strength and control.
When these signals become unclear or mismatched, your brain restricts motion or increases pain to keep you safe.
If the brain isn't working properly, no amount of stretch or strengthening will create lasting results.
Until the brain feels safe, the body stays cautious.
Improving sensory input, or how the brain perceives your body, enhances how the brain controls body movement.
A brain-based approach looks at how well your control systems are communicating- not just the strength of muscles and flexibility of joints.
when the brain feels confident in movement, tension relaxes, coordination improves and pain naturally decreases.
Unlike ART, it does not directly address tissue abnormalities. Unlike MAT, it tests the neurological stability of movements rather than specific muscles.
This framework completes, rather than replaces conventional treatment techniques, making the stretching and strengthening exercises better.