MAVERICK PHYSICAL THERAPY
Applied Functional Science
Pathological Conditions Treated
Applied Functional Science
UNDENIABLE TRUTHS TO HUMAN FUNCTION, ADAPTATION, AND SURVIVAL
- The convergence of sciences (Scientific TRUTHS) as the journey of life we live creates continual transformation.
Functional Medicine
Pathological Conditions Treated
Applied Functional Science
- Functional Medicine vs. Western Medicine. Integrated Medicine vs. Factory Medicine. Scientific Truth vs. Evidenced Based Practice.
- We eliminate pathology by treating the root of the problem.
Pathological Conditions Treated
Pathological Conditions Treated
Pathological Conditions Treated
- Cause and effect. We treat the root (cause) of pathology and injury, not the symptoms (effect) in order to create a successful solution in eliminating the problems source.
MAV PT CHARACTERISTICS
1 on 1 Outpatient Ortho PT & Differential Diagnosis
1 on 1 Outpatient Ortho PT & Differential Diagnosis
1 on 1 Outpatient Ortho PT & Differential Diagnosis
- 1 on 1 PT only (no aides used).
- Functional Evaluations determine a tissue specific impairment (rehab diagnosis), root of the problem, and specific interventions used during treatment sessions and as part of home exercise program.
Patient Demographics
1 on 1 Outpatient Ortho PT & Differential Diagnosis
1 on 1 Outpatient Ortho PT & Differential Diagnosis
- Patient demographics:
- High functioning, competitive athlete (amateur to professional).
- Extreme adventure athletes.
Functional Manual Therapy
1 on 1 Outpatient Ortho PT & Differential Diagnosis
Customized Home Exercise Program
Functional Manual Therapy is used as a strategy to:
- Assess bone and joint motion in combination with functional movement patterns.
Customized Home Exercise Program
Movement Performance PT and Transformational Zones
Customized Home Exercise Program
- Video based Home Exercise Program (PDF's available).
- Customized Functional Menu provided addressing individual needs (provided post evaluation and throughout course of treatment).
Movement Performance PT and Transformational Zones
Movement Performance PT and Transformational Zones
Movement Performance PT and Transformational Zones
Movement heals. The human body was designed athletic, adaptive, and competitive with the ability to heal itself (with or without surgical intervention) at the cellular level relative to the patient's unique pathological condition. Creating a successful environment for the body with specific 3-D Movement strategies is paramount in facilitating restoration of function.
Functional Medicine PT
Movement Performance PT and Transformational Zones
Movement Performance PT and Transformational Zones
We eliminate pathology by treating the root of the problem, not the symptoms.
ASSESS and TREAT the BODY as an INTEGRATED UNIT with a TRUTH based ORTHOPEDIC LENSE.
AFS: MOVEMENT TRUTH
TRUTH
UNDENIABLE TRUTHS TO HUMAN FUNCTION, ADAPTATION, AND SURVIVAL
- Truth doesn't change, but our understanding of it does.
- The convergence of sciences (Scientific TRUTHS) as the journey of life we live creates continual transformation.
BEHAVIORAL TRUTHS
- OUR MIND and OUR SPIRIT.
- Imprisonment of protocols and empowerment of customization.
- The root of our being thrives upon knowing that we are unrepeatable. In the history and existence of the world there will never be another you.
- Western medicine has transformed the patient into a medical diagnosis and billing code leading to discouragement, lack of relevance, and the patient becoming just like everyone else with the same condition.
- Human beings are unrepeatable, one of a kind, not cookie cutters.
- Customization is relevant to our story as success creates encouragement.
- A one size fits all approach lacks success in empowering individual's to reach their genetic potential.
- We build on success, not failure.
BIOLOGICAL TRUTHS
- OUR BODY (our composition at the cellular level)
- Anatomy
- Physiology
- Biology
- Biomechanics
- Neurology
- Nutrition
- Pathology
- Cardiology
- 3-Dimensional movement is designed to adjust and adapt to task specificity with:
- Mechanoreceptors
- Muscles, tendons
- Ligaments, joint capsules
- Joints
- Bones
PHYSICAL TRUTHS
- OUR WORLD
- Diverse geographical environments that are highly chaotic, unpredictable, and unstable with constant change.
- 3-Dimensionally loaded by gravity, momentum, inertia, and ground reaction forces.
PHYSIOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONAL PRINCIPLES
FUNCTIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION
SAID’S PRINCIPLE (SPECIFIC ADAPTATION TO IMPOSED DEMAND)
- Your body will adapt, learn, acquire movement strategies, activity tolerance and threshold, and a skill set(s) specific to the stimulus (environment, activity) that you place upon it, practice with, engage with physically, mentally, and emotionally.
- Volume via the variable of sets, repetitions, intensity, distance, and frequency establish a foundational and functional threshold, recoverability, repeatability, and efficiency.
- Preparation = optimal performance. Inability to prepare in a truth based physiological means (always used the functional based Applied Functional Science truth based filter for making your decisions as to what you should “intake” for activity).
- IF we EXPECT to optimize performance, maximize outcomes, perform our craft injury free with optimal efficiency and repeatability our preparation must meet the functionally specific demands of the activity (integrated total body kinematics/joint movement (relative motions…joint movement created from bone movement) and integrated osteokinematics/bone (real movement…bones moving in relation to each other)
STRESS STRAIN CURVE
- In the functional medicine world we use the Stress Strain curve, SAID’s principle, and neuroplasticity process in collaboration with our AFS functional filter in formulating customized blue prints/Movement Rx menu’s, for developing and planning every form movement and functional activity program, and prognosis for performance.
- STRESS is good. CONTROLLED STRESS is GOOD.
- Stress should be progressive, multidimensional, physical specific (gravity, momentum, inertia, and ground reaction forces) including our body weight and external forms of resistance with great variety to facilitate positive physiological change.
- Stress facilitates adaptation, transformation through the neuroplasticity (neuromuscular system adapting, learning, and controlling optimal movement reactionary behavior).
- STRESS uncontrolled is bad and becomes a STRAIN.
- STRAIN is the body’s inability to resist tissue deformity.
- STRAIN is an inability to overcome the effects of gravity, momentum, inertia, ground reaction forces.
- STRAIN results from kinetic chain compensation, fatigue and compensation due to several factors (poor non-functional based preparations as part of contraindications and/or in combination with poor activity preparation in which the demand of the activity far exceeds the individuals level of conditioning and preparation physically, mentally, and emotionally and in combination with environmental and geographical factors, life variables and accumulated stress (nutrition, sleep, activity, relationships, situational).
NEUROPLASTICITY & GENERAL GUIDELINES of the PHYSIOLOGICAL HEALING PROCESS
- 8-12 weeks is the minimum time frame for the physiological time frame for tissue healing.
- 8-12 weeks for neuroplasticity (body’s adaptability and skill acquisition developed through the element of repetitive practice).
TRANSFORMATIONAL ZONES
Laws of Physics. Using the effects of gravity, momentum, inertia, and ground reaction forces.
Cause and effect. Movement is the end result, reaction, and direct response to a highly complex loading and sensory feedback process the body uses to turn on its sensory units (mechanoreceptors) to properly decelerate/slow down and stabilize integrated functional motion (transformational ZONING) in certain positions (transformational zones: TZ's) and the greatly compounded effects of gravity, momentum, inertia, and ground reaction forces that add to the complexity, technicality, and powerfulness of the end result, accelerated movement. We assess these loading points (TZ's) to see how the body reacts to handling the dynamically unstable three dimensional accumulated effects of the laws of physics in order that proper intervention of loadings, resistance, and movement patterns can be used, practiced, learned, and acquired as an expression of becoming more explosive.
What are TRANSFORMATIONAL ZONES (TZ's)?
Transformational zones are loading points in specific fundamental skills that the kinetic chain dynamically decelerates and stabilizes motion in while absorbing and using the effects of gravity, momentum, inertia, and ground reaction forces. Transformational zones are what we assess, emphasize, and improve performance in because they are where injuries take place and where the integration of the body's dynamic chain reactions begin, progress, adapt, and continually transform through.
In order to maximize performance, movement consistency and efficiency we will emphasize the intervention of authentic functional task, fundamental skill, and sport specificity. Transformational zones drastically change as a result of integrated movement sequencing improving.
TZ's and Chain Reaction Biomechanical (CRB) sequencing.
The kinetic chain is a force producing integrated system of 206 bones, 300 muscles, and 700 joints that is linked together. The foundational of human movement is founded upon the principle of motor development, which is a multi joint integrated, interdependent system that is dynamically stabile, mobile, strong, and powerful enough to overcome and use the forces of gravity, momentum, inertia, and ground reaction forces.
The genesis of movement and the chain reaction (linked system) begin with the rear foot. The gateway of function begins, ends, and is continually loading and unloading through the chain reaction process driven and facilitated from the bottom up where the domino effect begins and driven by drivers from the top down to continually load and unloading in a combination of dimensions.
Eliminating Compensation
PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS: Prevention and Treatment
Cause and effect. We treat the root (cause) of pathology and injury, not the symptoms (effect) in order to create a successful solution in eliminating the problems source.
In today's medical world the patient has become a rehab/medical diagnosis and billing code. Our medical community has mutated into FACTORY MEDICINE, minimal time and minimal skilled care allotted to actually helping a patient get better with every patient with the same condition receiving the same solution. The rehab diagnosis is designed to easily provide a cookie cutter protocol for every person with the same medical condition. Being labeled a "Billing Code" is strictly for the purpose of reimbursement (clinician getting paid).
The human body's anatomy mutates due to the nature of acute injuries and chronic degenerative changes. Patients seen on a weekly basis range from 4-100 years old. Provided is a list of conditions we frequently see patients with.
- Pediatrics
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Pro Athlete (Off-season and In-season)
- Business ergonomics
Frequent Pathological conditions:
LOWER EXTREMITY:
- FOOT/ANKLE
- Tendonitis and Tendonosis (Achilles, Tibialis Anterior, Tibialis Posterior, Peroneus Longus and Brevis, Flexor Digitorum longus, Plantar Fascitis)
- Achilles Strain Grade 1-3 pre and post-op
- Ligament Pathology Grade 1-3 (Tibiofibular, Deltoid, Anterior Talofibular, Calcanealfibular, Posterior Talofibular, Long Plantar)
- Joint Capsule Hypomobility
- Instability
- Fractures
- Bunionectomy
- KNEE
- Degenerative joint disease and joint capsule hypomobility
- Meniscus pathology
- Total and Partial Knee Arthroplasty (replacement)
- ACL, MCL, LCL, PCL Grade 1-3 sprains, reconstruction pre and post-op.
- Baker’s Cyst
- Tendinosis and Tendonitis (Quadriceps, Patella, Biceps Femoris, Pes anserine, Semimembranosous)
- HIP
- FAI (Femoral Acetabular Impingement)
- Labral Pathology
- Degenerative Joint Disease
- Total hip Arthroplasty (Replacement)
- Tendonosis and Tendonitis (Psoas, Rectus Femoris)
- IT-Band Syndrome
- Bursitis
- Joint Capsule Hypomobility
- Piriformis Syndrome
- AVN (Avascular Necrosis)
- Fractures
- ORIF
SPINE:
- LUMBAR SPINE:
- Arthritis/Arthrosis/Degenerative Joint Disease/facet syndrome/Spondylosis/Arthropathy
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Hypermobility/Instability
- Spondylolisis
- Spondylolithesis/Pars Defect
- Disc Herniation Grade 1-3
- Disc Bulge/Protrusion
- Compression Fractures
- Scoliosis (Idiopathic) S and C Curve
- Lumbar Spine Radiculopathy
- Spinal Stensois
- Spinal Fusions
- CERVICAL SPINE:
- Arthritis/Arthrosis/Degenerative Joint Disease/facet syndrome/Spondylosis/Arthropathy
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Hypermobility/Instability
- Disc Herniation Grade 1-3
- Disc Bulge/Protrusion
- Scoliosis (Idiopathic) S and C Curve
- Cervical Spine Radiculopathy
- Spinal Stensois
- Spinal Fusions
- THORACIC SPINE:
- Hypomobility
- Spinal Fusions
- Scoliosis (Idiopathic) S and C Curve
UPPER EXTREMITY:
- SHOULDER (Glenohumeral Joint)
- Rotator Cuff repairs (pre and post-op)
- Rotator Cuff Tendonitis/Tendonosis, Strains Grades 1-3.
- Degeneratve Joint Disease/Arthritis
- SLAP tears
- Bicepital Tenodesis
- Biceps Tendonitis/Tendonosis, Strains Grade 1-3.
- Latarjet
- Subacromial Decompression
- Glenohumeral Joint Capsule hyper-mobility/Instability
- Glenohumeral Joint Capsule hypomobility
- Total and Reverse Shoulders Arthroplasty
- Scapula and Clavicle fractures
- Bennet Lesion
- Hill Sach’s Lesion
- Bankart Lesion
- Bone Spurs
- Humerus ORIF
- Impingement Syndrome
- Brachial Plexus Injuries and lesions
- Adhesive Capsulitis
- AC Joint pathology
- Elbow
- Ulna Colateral Ligament reconstruction (pre and post-op)
- Flexor Common Mass Tendonitis/Tendonosis, Strains grade 1-3, reconstruction pre and post-op (Golfer’s Elbow)
- Extensor Common Mass Tendonitis/Tendonosis, Strains Grade 1-3 (Tennis Elbow)
- Olecranon fractures
- Ulnar and Median nerve lesions.
- Bone Spurs
- Wrist/Hand
- Carpal Tunnel
- Joint Capsule Hypomobility
- Fractures
- Ulnar, Median, Radial Nerve Lesions
- Neuromuscular impairments:
- Vestibular
- CVA (strokes)
- Parkinson's Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- TBI/concussions (Traumatic Brain Injuries)
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