Applied Kineseology: Kelly Mastery Of Muscle Memory

Jul 26, 2013; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia Eagles linebacker

(54) (holding the 69 pad) during training camp at the Eagles NovaCare Complex. Mandatory Credit: Howard Smith-USA TODAY Sports

From “Mudder” to “Thoroughbred” : Evolution Of Athletes

In the early days of football, the sentiment was “play through pain”.  And many early football stories and legends were made as bloody faced gladiators of the game endured through pain, mud, ice and rain to win the day on the field.

However, over time the “mudders” were slowly replaced with more highly trained professional athletes who had trained their body to do more than their predecessors.   But while this new generation of athlete had a more effective training regiment, their recovery time became ever lengthier and difficult, as reactive medicine was tasked with fixing ever more complex joints and injuries.

But medicine did not wait for the Chippah to arrive in the NFL.  Not at all.  In fact, sports medicine in Europe was undergoing its own transformation thanks in large part to the popularity and wealth involved in FIFA’s World Cup competition.   To meet the demands of athletes who seem to be in constant motion, have tremendous impacts with other athletes without the benefits of pads to lessen the impact, sports medicine turned to the science of Applied Kineseology to keep their athletes in top form.

One of the top facilities is the Terme Selce facility in Croatia.  Many of the top European athletes have undergone treatment there in the past 15 years.   Treatments can include therapeutic procedures designed to restore use of a joint through surgical and or therapy, or so much as intensive uses of technology to track proper form to accelerate sports training and athleticism to the shortest time required.   In a proactive sense, athletes now can be monitored to determine the specific amount of stress each muscle group and joint endures.  Tracking allows the athlete to avoid overdoing it, and keeps the body training progressing.

In addition, medicine now tracks injuries sites and impacts after injured, giving athletes a much better chance of avoiding re-injuring the same area.  Advances in this branch of medical sciences include retained injury patterns (R.I.P.) are neuroemotional human circuitry which endure after the injury heals and have long-lasting negative impacts on the athlete.  The goal is to eliminate these patterns.  Another area is the focus on the digestive tract and align nutrition and diet to coincide with the athlete’s specific biochemistry and abilty to digest specific food types.  Even further, sleep studies and rest are monitored to ensure the body has ample time to recover.

These advances have occurred separately from the NFL, and have sprung up in many differing sports venues.   Until recently, football coaches paid virtually no attention to what was happening in other sports.    That has changed.