Muscle Activation Dublin
Muscle Activation Techniques is a powerful neuromuscular assessment tool. Over time stress, trauma, or overuse, and the resultant inflammation on the body result in a less efficient muscular system and diminished neuromuscular function.
Hello! I’m Libby
Muscle Activation Therapist in Dublin
For 8 years I walked with chronic pain in my hip. I tried every intervention and therapy, but nothing had a lasting effect. Every day was a struggle, constantly exhausted and in pain.
I then discovered a powerful technique developed by Physiotherapist Douglas Heel called “Be-Activated” for managing stress, overcoming pain, and dysfunctional patterns in your body. The impact on my whole life was so great , I decided to study and learn everything I could about how to use these natural principles and techniques, so I can help others who ARE where I once was.
Participating in 3 minute daily Activations, and 6 years later, I continue to live a pain free life. I practice from The Less-Stress Studio, located at my home in Dublin 7.
My Approach
1. Identify Weakness
MAT Practitioners are able to assess an individual client’s neuromuscular function by preforming a series of mobility tests and then correlating the limitations in range of motion (ROM) with muscle tests that can identify which specific muscles are not contracting efficiently.
2. Activate Muscles
Once a muscle weakness is identified, MAT Practitioners are trained to precisely “Activate” each muscle weakness through either isometric contractions or specific force application to the origin and insertion points of the affected muscle.
3. Restore Function
Clients report that their original symptoms greatly decrease after MAT sessions because the Practitioner worked to re-establish and strengthen the connections between the nervous system and the muscular system.
4. Live Life
Imagine: Picking up your grandkids with ease, kicking a football with your son without difficulty, or walking downstairs to say Good Morning to a loved one without pain. MAT can improve your quality of life by giving you the freedom and joy in getting you back to doing what you love!
Life is Going To Beat You Up & You’ll Need Someone To Put You Back Together
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What is Neurological Muscle Dysfunction And How Does MAT Address It?
Muslce Activation Recognises That Inflammation Can Create Neurological Weakness
Stress, trauma, and overuse and the resultant inflammation can alter the communication between the nervous system and the muscle system. This altered communication is what creates neurological weaknesses. In these situations, muscles lose their ability to contract efficiently, where they can no longer contract on demand, in order to stabilize joints and protect the body from injury. From an MAT perspective we would consider these muscles to be “inhibited”.
The goal of MAT is to “activate” the inhibited muscles through muscle specific isometric contractions or manual stimulation at the origin and insertion of the associated muscle(s).
Once the inhibited muscles are activated, they are able to contract more efficiently, enabling the muscles to withstand greater amounts of external force which allows the muscles to protect the body from pain or injury.
From a MAT perspective, when we see these neurological weaknesses, MAT looks at it as a communication issue rather than a strength issue. The goal of the MAT assessment is to identify positions where a muscle cannot contract on demand and/or sustain a contraction for a specific amount of time.
Therefore, the muscle testing involved in the MAT assessment process are not designed to evaluate the strength of the muscle. The MAT muscle tests are unique in that they are designed to determine whether muscles can contract on demand and sustain the contraction.
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