Justin Spring
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Olympic Gymnast, 2008 Beijing
Diagnosis: post-operative shoulder labral repair 9 months | Treatments: 2
I’m having to kind of offset practices to compensate for my inability to use my left shoulder, as much as I can as my right. Therapy, of course, was strengthening using a bungee cord, weights, balls. I’ve done pretty much any method you could possibly imagine and yet it’s still not as strong as my right.
That’s amazing! I feel I can open the joint a lot more. I mean, I’m starting to get tired, but I couldn’t even do one before. I just got off the table and did this the first time and actually there’s no pain! You know you can kind of feel the bands of muscle kind of tightness roll over, but it’s not, it’s actually, it’s actually smooth. It feels pretty good. That’s nuts!
It’s at ease to open up to those extreme positions without having to fight it without extra pain, kind of through the, definitely the biceps tendon. It felt significantly easier than it has been. So thank you.

Tracy Thomas
Ultramarathoner:
Diagnosis: chronic hip and knee pain, hip immobility 1 year | Treatments: 7
I can actually feel where it’s stretching across the hip as it hangs there. Before, it just felt like there was a solid cable there, and it could hang there all day. Normally, just leaning into the wall it felt like it was fused, like I couldn’t move it. Now, I mean, it’s absolutely amazing. It’s like I’ve got a hinge on the side of my hip. This is beyond normal.

Mark Krug
Diagnosis: chronic tear biceps tendon 6 years | Treatments: 5
After going through the first increment of training in Quantico, Virginia, I blew out my shoulder on a pull-up bar. Since then, I’ve gone through multiple therapies, none of which have solved the problem. Before the accident, I could do 20 pull ups with a kip. Now I can’t do even one without extreme physical pain. I can’t pull through the full repetition. Not bad after two treatments. Not as much tightness. Virtually no pain. It’s been six years. In six years. I feel a lot looser. It’s just a lack of strength.

Catlin Aveyard
Diagnosis: dislocated shoulder surgery repair 6 months | Treatments: 10
I am a long distance freestyler and my problem was caused by overuse from competitive swimming. I had surgery to tighten the sack that my shoulder sits in and remove the bursa and a ligament.

Joanne Russell
Wimbledon doubles champion 1977
Diagnosis: rotator cuff surgery | Treatments: 7
I am six weeks post rotator cuff repair. I can’t seem to get my motion back and don’t think I didn’t try.

Josh Wrobel
Diagnosis: possible shoulder labral injury 3 months | Treatments: 3
So yesterday I played basketball with my friends, which I haven’t done in a long time. I was afraid to put my arm up, and it never hurt. Throwing a Frisbee doesn’t hurt. Showering. I can put my arm up. It’s awesome. I can reach my back much better. I normally sleep resting my head on my shoulder. I haven’t been doing that for over three months. I’m thrilled. I was scared. I thought there was some major problem that had not healed. I’m used to things healing if I get injured. This summer I have to teach swimming, and I was pretty worried that I wouldn’t be able to move my shoulder. But after just a few sessions, I can move my right arm as well as I can move my left. This is shocking to me. I can’t believe this.

Elana Bauer
Diagnosis: shoulder dislocation repair 6 months | Treatments: 7
Much better! I can reach into higher places without pain or discomfort. I can sleep on both sides and I have no pain. I can actually run a half marathon. I am very happy I came here.

Norm Bilsbury
Diagnosis: broken ankle, chronic lower leg pain and calf spasm 10 years | Treatments: 6
I broke my ankle playing basketball. My calf would always tighten back up so I just kinda gave up running which is about 8 years. When I do try to train my calves immediately lock up on me. it could happen immediately or it could happen 1 ½ miles into the run. Can you tell the difference when squatting? Yeah I can!

Mike Leverso
Diagnosis: shoulder labral injury unrepaired | Treatments: 4
I hurt my shoulder while I was pitching. I could not throw anymore. The pain never went away. I couldn’t throw at all. I would have pain for the entire day. I can’t believe the range of motion that I have gotten back in my shoulder. And just how loose it feels. I feel like my shoulder is free and moves much more fluidly throughout all its motions and I have much less pain.

David Litman
Diagnosis: cervical disc replacement surgery repair | Treatments: 5
As you know, I’m a tennis player. My senior year in high school I had a car accident putting an officer eventually got so bad where I couldn’t do anything is I had a cervical neck replacement, C5, C6. I met with a surgeon to get rid of the nerve problem. But now I still had the muscle problem where, hey, it’s always still, it’s still pain. This therapy is very unique breaking up the scar tissue. What I’ve experienced when I go to like a hospital physical therapist, they’re like, okay, here’s your exercise band. You need to work on having your motion and getting your strength back and use an exercise band. Well, you’re just really masking the problem. You’re just like overcompensating this. You have some technique where it actually tears the scar tissue that’s there that shouldn’t be, and then it just releases. So that way it actually has the more movement, more freedom. I’m actually able to play tennis, very high level collegiately and I can play with all the high-level college players. Uh, no pain. I can serve with no pain. It used to hurt when I would just look up. Now I can look up all day.

Virginia Belt
Diagnosis: achilles tendon repair 5 weeks| Treatments: 12
I tore my achilles in ballet class doing small jumps. I had surgery on it and it was in a cast for 5 weeks. Yeah that is a lot further than even Monday (putting weight on her foot). How amazing! Thursday and Friday I didn’t go anywhere. I just walk around the house without the crutches. Yesterday morning when I woke up I felt really good because I could bend it. You know what is really interesting is the number of people that come up to me and say I can’t believe how fast you are recouping and getting back. I can do that in a plie. And it doesn’t even bother me. It feels much more connected. I mean even this is much more controlled. Oh that is nice!

Paula Shoppe
Diagnosis: chronic hip/knee pain 3 years | Treatments: 3
Saturday night. I went dancing for three hours which I have not done in 10 years, and I have no problem, no pain at all.

Timothy Smallwood
Diagnosis: chronic groin pain 4 months | Treatments: 2
I hurt my hip flexor doing squats. The pain continued to get worse, and through the past three months hasn’t gotten any better. Before the treatment I could only raise my leg to about there (45 degrees at hip) without pain and now I can raise it all the way up through the full range of motion with no problems. Feels pretty good. How long has it been since you have been able to do that? About 4 months now.

Tim Greathouse
Diagnosis: chronic hamstring pain 5 years | Treatments: 5
So, this has been going on for about five years and I was in pain all the time. No matter if I was stretched out or if I just got done working out or if I’d waited three days. It was always painful. It isn’t now. It’s normal. My flexibility is really limitless now!

Blair Sarkiss
Diagnosis: chronic hamstring pain 4 months | Treatments: 3
It’s not at all painful. I have not actually been able to go down this far and touch. This stretch. WOW! I was feeling it in the back and now I don’t feel it at all.