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Jason Hall is
a Licensed and Nationally Certified Athletic Trainer,
Certified Muscle Activation Specialist, and Certified
Performance Enhancement Specialist. He has 11 years of
experience evaluating and treating musculoskeletal
imbalances that lead to overuse and injury. Jason
completed his BA in 1997 from Augustana College in Biology
and Athletic Training. He then went on to work with high
school, college, professional, industrial, and weekend
athletes of all levels on the field, in the rehabilitation
center and at the gym. In 2005 Jason began an internship
in Muscle Activation. He completed that Internship in 2006
and since has been practicing the technique of Muscle
Activation with countless clients. Here is a testimonial
from one of them:
"I had been suffering with a
knee injury for almost a year. I saw a doctor and he had
me doing exercises and physical therapy form my knee. I
did not get any relief from those treatments. My daughter
encouraged me to see Jason Hall regarding MAT. Upon my
initial visit, Jason found it was my hip rather than my
knee that was the problem. I had been getting treatment
for the wrong injury and that is why I never got any
better. After my first 4 meetings with Jason I had
substantial increases in mobility and strength. I have and will
continue to recommend you to my friends, family and
clients. Thanks for everything,"
Paula
What makes MAT®
unique?
The goal of MAT® is to identify and correct muscular
imbalances in order to decrease pain and improve muscle
function. Conventional forms of therapy focus on muscle
tightness as the primary factor relating to chronic pain
or injury. The MAT philosophy is unique in that it
recognizes that muscle tightness is not the cause of
injury, rather, it is just a symptom. The foundation to
MAT is that muscle tightness is a protective response to
muscle weakness. When the body senses weakness or
inhibition in a muscle, then the associated joint becomes
unstable. This causes other muscles to tighten up in order
to protect the joint from this instability. The
conventional thought process is to stretch the tight
muscles. This is great in theory. However, if the
coinciding weakness has not been addressed, then the
muscles will tighten back up. Instead of treating the
tightness (symptom) MAT addresses the cause
(weakness/inhibition). By correcting the muscle weakness,
the body gains a sense of stability, which results in an
immediate relaxation of the tight muscles since they no
longer have to protect due to the prior instability. The
end result is increased mobility and stability. In
conventional forms of therapy there may be increases in
mobility, yet, if the weakness is still present, the body
continues to feel the need to protect and the muscles will
tighten back up.
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