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• If a muscle is hard it is shortened.
• If you move against a shortened muscle it hurts.
• If you move violently against a shortened muscle it tears!
• Hard, shortened muscles restrict one’s range of motion.
• Hard musculature contains a buildup of lactic acid making it tender to the touch.
• Stretching provides limited results; you can only stretch to the adhesion of a shortened muscle.
• The Therbo Robot is a muscle lengthening device that can break up these adhesions.
• Lengthened muscles benefit from increased performance, decreased recovery time and garner greater results from stretching!

What is Muscular Therapy?

Meilus Muscular Therapy Method is a revolutionary method of treating injuries, relieving aches and pains and dramatically improving athletic performance. Unlike other therapy methods that usually focus more on relieving the discomfort associated with a muscular disorder, Meilus Muscular Therapy method takes an engineering approach by fixing the problem.

What does engineering have to do with pain and sports performance? Everything! Our muscloskeletal system is a series of cables (muscles) working to operate a variety of levers (bones). When one of the cables shortens, it affects the entire system and causes pain in the joint and in the muscles and tissue surrounding that joint.

As a muscular therapist Al Meilus studied the human body from an engineer's perspective and determined which cables operate which levers during normal activity. With a thorough understanding of how healthy muscles and joints should interact, Al can identify and treat malfunctions in the system using basic physics rather than guess work.

The premise is very simple:

• If the muscle is hard, it is shortened.
• If you move against a shortened muscle it hurts.
• If the muscle is shortened, you have moved the fulcrum of a lever system. Range of motion is lost. Power is lost.
• Hard musculature contains a buildup of lactic acid, making it tender to the touch.
• Stretching provides limited results: you can only stretch to the adhesion of a shortened muscle.
• If you move quickly or are pushed quickly against a shortened muscle you will tear the muscle or dislocate the joint.

How Does Muscular Therapy Work?

When muscles are overworked or traumatized by injury, they produce waste products such as lactic acid. Healthy muscles rid themselves of these chemicals by passing them into the blood stream. Muscles repeatedly over-excerted or traumatized begin to lose their natural ability to cleanse themselves. The result is a harmful buildup of waste, a sort of slow poisoning of your muscles. This buildup restricts normal blood flow, causing muscles to contract, becoming stiff and achy. If ignored long enough, the problem can develope into chronic pain as well as skeletal and neurological disorders.

Meilus Muscular Therapy Method helps unhealthy or exhausted muscles by ridding the tissue of waste, restoring normal blood flow and allowing the muscle to relax and lengthen to its normal state. In order to achieve these results, the therapist applies pressure to an aggravated muscle or group of muscles, triggering a reaction that begins the healing process.

Athletes are not the only people who over-exert their muscles and people who have suffered a traumatic injury are not the only ones with damaged tissue. Everyone, from an auto-mechanic to a typist, has at one time or another, over-exerted or injured themselves and ended up with sore hands, an aching back or some other pain. Its when those aches become chronic or begin to hinder your performance that they need to be addressed. Meilus Muscular Therapy Method can help.

Example: Imagine you fixed rubber bands to both sides of a swinging door. As long as the bands on each side of the door were of equal strength, you would be able to open the door an equal amount in both directions. But picture what would happen if you were to double or even triple the strength of one of the rubber bands! First of all, you wouldn't be able to close the door because it would always swing toward the stronger rubber band. What's more, it would be almost impossible to open the door against the force of the stronger rubber band.

The muscles in your body work the same way. If one muscle is too tight, it restricts the movement of others.  Meilus Muscular Therapy Method can help.

What it does & What we can do for YOU

Analysis

• Engineering systems approach - Look at the whole body
• If you are limping from a sliver in your foot and hurting your back, take the sliver out first. Find the source of the problem, which is not necessarily where it hurts.

Lengthen Muscles

• Patented, new, hand held tools and robotics lengthen the muscles quickly - see it, feel it.
• Developed with Lockheed-Martin Corp., University of South Florida,Department of Energy and Meilus Muscular Therapy & Sports, Inc.

Dramatic Changes in One Visit...WHY?

• Lengthening muscles removes pain.
• Lengthened muscles increase flexibility.
• If you work against a shortened muscle, performace is lost, pain sets in. If the muscle is over-stretched it will injure by tearing.
• Increased flexibility benefits every area of life.