by Greg Mack | Apr 9, 2019 | Exercise, Fitness, Pain, Personal Training, Uncategorized
Exercise is an amazing tool for many reasons. A largely unconsidered power of exercise is in its use as a stimulus we can use strategically to add, change, and edit information in an individual’s nervous system. Being able to use this power of exercise is why I love my job as a Muscle System Specialist™. Kate and I went through several rounds of carefully applied, unique “lessons” for her body to pick up and use as new pieces of information in her nervous system’s arsenal, much like providing her with a few extra letters in the Wheel of Fortune. Once we identified the areas of her system that needed it, we supplied her with new information to interpret, process, and integrate into its problem-solving repertoire. [For the sake of sparing you hours of extra reading on this already lengthy article, I’ll leave this link here in case you’re interested in learning more about the methods we use as Muscle System Specialists™:
by Greg Mack | Apr 3, 2019 | Pain, Uncategorized
“Pain don’t hurt.” — Patrick Swayze’s character Dalton in “Road House”, while responding to the doctor about to stitch up his wounds after a bar fight who tells him that the stitches are going to hurt. Pain is an elusive concept. Sometimes...
by Greg Mack | Mar 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
By the age of 15, going on 16, I was training for an elite swim club, 18 hours a week of wear and tear, grinding, non-stop stress on my body. I kept having this back pain appear and at first, I thought nothing of it – I did not want to be weak – so I kept going. That is the athletes’ mindset, right? An injury makes you weak, not being able to handle the training thrown at you. There is not one athlete who wants to be the one sitting on the side because they physically cannot take what the rest of the team is doing.
by Greg Mack | Mar 27, 2019 | Exercise, Pain, Uncategorized
By Charlie Rowe, CMSS, CSCS “MRI’s are just anatomic pictures of structures. They do NOT tell me if someone is having pain from MRI findings. I tell patients that it is similar to having your portrait taken. The picture just shows what you look like, not...
by Greg Mack | Mar 14, 2019 | Exercise, Pain, Personal Training, Uncategorized
Are you familiar with the idiom “The straw that broke the camel’s back”?
This simple phrase captures the idea that a seemingly minor or routine action can cause an unpredictably large and rapid reaction, due to the cumulative effect of many previous small actions. Typically we blame the last straw right? But the real problem is the progressive accumulation of the small problems (straws) prior to the last straw being added to the camel’s back!
by Greg Mack | Feb 27, 2019 | Exercise, Fitness, Pain, Personal Training, Uncategorized
Charlie Rowe, CMSS, Greg Mack, ACE-CMES How Do I Know If I Can Avoid Surgery? Did the title of this article capture your attention? It should because surgery, no matter how big or small, is serious business. The type of surgery this article is speaking to is...
by Greg Mack | Feb 19, 2019 | Exercise, Fitness, Pain, Personal Training
Co-Authored by Jay Weitzner and Greg Mack, Certified Medical Exercise Specialists, Certified Muscle System Specialists You walk in the door and scan the landscape; A solemn waiting room with lots of neatly aligned chairs, a TV tuned to a channel no body cares about,...
by Greg Mack | Feb 17, 2019 | Exercise, Pain, Uncategorized
(This is Part Two of this blog series. Read Part 1 here.) “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” — Aristotle In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the dilemma of back pain that persists despite your persistent efforts to solve...
by Greg Mack | Feb 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Mack’s Muscle Minute is a Vlog series providing quick information about your muscle system and why its important for your health. Go to Youtube to see all the episodes. If you're interested in learning more about how a Certified Muscle System Specialist™ can...
by Greg Mack | Feb 9, 2019 | Pain, Uncategorized
(This is Part One of this blog series. Read Part Two here.) “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” — Aristotle You have back pain, and you’re determined to beat it. You’ve been to your doctor and received pain...
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