What is AMIT?
Advanced Muscle Integration Technique (AMIT) is a systematic treatment of common joint and muscle conditions that are experienced by active people. AMIT is a revolutionary advancement in sports medicine.
AMIT practitioners can predict injuries by examining and identifying instabilities in the body, which in most cases lead to injury. The new advanced therapies utilized in AMIT procedures, allow for rapid corrections of instabilities that result in improved function, removal of pain, and an overall new level of performance.
The developers of the AMIT system discovered that the primary cause of chronic joint and muscle pain, is due to inhibited muscles that result from overuse or injury. Although the pain of the injury goes away over time, the functional imbalance remains. In turn, these functional imbalances eventually lead to chronic pain. By defining these imbalances and correcting them using the AMIT therapies, healing and rehabilitation can take place rapidly, without the need for drugs or surgery.
PHILOSOPHY
Our bodies are perfectly designed to produce the results we experience.
Pain or dysfunction is the result of modification to your body’s innate design. Modifications are due to an accumulation of imbalances caused by traumas and overloads to your body’s systems.
There is always a reason for your symptoms. Ignore them long enough, and disease and injury will be the result.
Symptoms are a precise language warning system, that is built into your body to protect it.
Treating symptoms with medications and surgery is in essence telling your body to be quiet. This approach can lead to more serious conditions over time.
In crisis situations, which require medications and surgery, medications should be used only as a stop gap measure, until a solution can be defined to correct the cause of the problem. Surgery should be used only to correct a pathology, and not to remove only the symptom of pain.
We attempt to define the root cause of the problem, rather than merely treat the symptom.
SCIENCE –THE FOUNDATION UPON WHICH ADVANCED MUSCLE INTEGRATION TECHNIQUE IS BASED:
When a muscle is overloaded beyond its ability to sustain the load, one of two things happen. The muscle fibers tear and/or the nervous system inhibits the muscle (much like a circuit breaker in an electrical circuit). This is done to protect the muscle from more severe injury.
If the inhibited muscle is loaded again during physical activity, it will not be able to contract appropriately against the applied force, and will therefore be weak. If the muscle continues to be stressed, the body will create pain so as to avoid more damage.
Once a muscle is inhibited, the central nervous system develops an adaptive strategy, which uses other muscles or tissues to take on more of the load. This leads to adaptive movement patterns, which is known as “recruitment” or “adaptation”.
The adapted tissue eventually becomes the next site of injury, and so the injury/adaptation cycle continues.
Eventually, there will be no muscles in an area which are able to adapt. The result of more stress on the ligaments and connective tissues, is that they begin to break down more rapidly, which leads to degenerative changes in the joint. Functional testing of isolated muscles defines positions of instability.
Isolated muscle weakness leads to joint instability and restricted range of motion, because the body will not allow motion that cannot be stabilized. Muscle tightness restricts motion, and is a symptom of neurological inhibition of the antagonist muscles. Flexibility therapies may increase range of motion, but they do nothing to improve stability. This can lead to further injury.
ADAPTATION
The absence of symptoms does not indicate healing is complete. It may only indicate the body has merely created a successful adaptation into other tissues or systems. Adaptation leads to less efficient function.
If an acute injury is not corrected within six weeks, the central nervous system is forced to adapt the body.
Acute injuries will be treated at the local injury site. Chronic problems will always require treatment away from the symptom site.
The symptom site may be the chronic adaptation site and may not respond to therapy.
Adapted tissues become the next site of symptom and eventual injury.
Treating adaptation sites does not improve function. If healing is to take place, all the essential components for healing must be present.
If all the essential components for healing are not available, the injured tissue will be put on hold resulting in more adaptation.
This leads to an accumulation of problems; adaptive overlay of injuries and adaptations creating a layering effect.
The absence of symptoms does not indicate healing is complete. It may only indicate the body has merely created a successful adaptation involving other tissues or systems. Adaptation leads to less efficient function. If an acute injury is not corrected within six weeks, the central nervous system is forced to adapt. Acute injuries will be treated at the local injury site. Chronic problems will always require treatment away from the symptom site. The symptom site may be the chronic adaptation site and may not respond to therapy. Adapted tissues can become the next site of symptoms, as well as eventual injury. Treating adaptation sites does not improve function. If healing is to take place, all the essential components for healing must be present. If all the essential components for healing are not available, the injured tissues will be put on hold resulting in more adaptation. This leads to an accumulation of problems involving an adaptive overlay of injuries,which are adaptations that create a layering effect.v