Sporting conditions & muscle injuries

Many people accept the above symptoms as an inevitable product of their careers, or their lifestyles. However, they don't have to be, unless you let them! Learning about how our muscles and corresponding organs are being affected can be a much-needed impetus for change and reassessing our priorities in life. At the very least, it provides the tools and techniques to help us cope! Certain nutrition and daily exercises can help imeasurably.

Kinesiology is becoming increasingly recognised and used within the sporting arena. Several football clubs including AC Milan now have their own club kinesiologists.

In order to be an effective athlete, your body needs to be working at its optimal level. Athletes can be negatively affected by all sorts of issues which can dramatically reduce their sporting performances.

Many athletes who keep fit and work out understandably assume that kinesiology's muscle testing will not be an accurate indicator, as they feel that their muscles will be strong. However, each muscle test is designed to isolate specific muscles and it comes as a shock to people that other muscles have been supporting and 'carrying" this weaker muscle without them realising.

If an athlete experiences repeated muscular issues for no apparent reason, then it may be purely structural, but there is also a strong possibility that it is the sign of the corresponding struggling organ or body system. On locating what this is, there are several techniques which can be used to strengthen the muscle. These involve deep lyphatic massage, locating and strengthening energy points, finding key nutrition that the body may crave and possibly making lifestyle changes which will help support the organ, thereby strengthening the muscle. People can literally leap off the treatment bed feeling completely different!

Many people feel unexplained fatigue and lethargy and can't quite fathom why. Very often it is linked to our digestive systems; food is often not digested properly and therefore does not yield the necessary energy. This can be due to the lack of key digestive components, or to food intolerances. Muscle testing can ascertain which components are needed and can also be used to test people's sensitivity to certain foods. Novak Djokovic attributes his recent spectacular run of success to eliminating wheat from his diet; wheat and dairy are indeed two very common offenders which cause gut issues and consequent lack of energy. Often clients don't have to cut out the 'offending" substance forever; instead, it allows you to make informed choices about diet and after a break, the substance can be slowly re-introduced.