If you have pain or injury, if you are plateaued in your training or rehabilitation, you can learn how to train the joints, tissues, and neurological control of the issues holding you back. We can teach you how and help kick-start the process.
EXCELSIOR BODYWORK specializes in client-specific manual therapy, joint mobilization, and end-range strength training. The work seeks to alleviate chronic pain, correct poor motor patterns, restore full range of motion, and increase function. Clinic sessions last 60 to 75 minutes and take place on a therapy table and bench. Coaching and Classes take place in the gym space. In all modalities, full participation of the client is required. Excelsior Bodywork is not a passive therapy.
THE EXCELSIOR EXPERIENCE
A Strength and Mobility Model Grounded in Science
Getting up off the floor, running a mile, or doing a backsquat are all external displays of internal capacity: capacity in JOINT SPACES, MUSCLES, TENDONS, LIGAMENTS, FASCIA and the controlling NEUROLOGY. Strength and capacity to move are emergent properties; they are internally produced. Aberrant function in any of these ecologies will lead to training plateaus, joint deterioration, sub-optimal movement compensation, and eventually pain and injury. Our work helps you manage these internal conditions through a spectrum of clinical ASSESSMENT, soft tissue TREATMENT, and joint-based strength TRAINING. The training is scalable from maintenance to rehabilitation to conditioning. We are guided by the study of anatomy, physiology, exercise science, the research of Functional Range Systems®, and other bodywork modalities.
A S S E S S
We use objective assessments to measure your articular capacity in all articular spaces. Where can you move? Where can’t you move? How do you compensate? Do your joints have enough workspace? Is your active range adequate to your passive range? Does your connective tissue restrict articulation or force absorption? What afferent or efferent signals are present? These assessments pair with your report of symptoms and goals, and help us determine the appropriate treatment or training inputs possible to help you move more and better.
T R E A T
On the clinic table, we address deficiencies and restrictions with hands-on and movement-based inputs. We palpate and apply manual pressure to muscle, bone and connective tissue, while giving you cues to move, contract, relax and hold isometrically. In this way, we help you resolve mechanical and neurological impediments to articular freedom. Each session addresses work space in the joint and tension in the surrounding tissue, as well as your motor control which integrates these functions. You are an active participant. While the work can be intense, most clients leave feeling relief and/or progress, and with an abundance of new information about their body. The principles we use on the therapy table are the basis of all the work that we do, from intervention to training.
T R A I N
Time in our clinic, manually addressing deficiencies and restrictions, provides you a moment to begin cultivating the internal environment for more and better pain-free movement. But it is only a beginning. Complete healing and full function require patience and relentlessness. They require constant stimulus and progressive overload. In a word, they require training– at any age, ability or capacity. Training is how we get more from our joints and tissues: in sport, in life and in our quotidian habits and postures. Without training we plateau, compensate and get injured. Excelsior uses individual and class-based coaching sessions to teach you to preserve the changes we make in the clinic, and to train for articular function, motor control, and a buffer against injury.
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Come in for a functional assessment. Discuss the work and potential treatment options. No charge. No pressure. Just more data to help you make an informed decision.
Wherever you go, you take your skeleton with you.
Learn to move more and better at KINSTRETCH®
KINSTRETCH® puts the principles we use in the clinic into a group and individual mat-based class. The class provides assessment, training, and education to improve the foundations of all major joints, surrounding tissues, and associated motor function. Attendees include everyday movers, pro athletes, yoga instructors, grandparents, powerlifters, Jiu Jitsu players, runners, walkers, cyclists, tennis players, students, and more.
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