ASTYM Provider Symposium
I had the privilege of speaking at the first annual ASTYM Provider Symposium in
posted by Vern Gambetta @ 6/11/2006 05:50:00 PM
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Functional Path Training
The Functional Path is a path that had been traveled many times before but had fallen out of use in favor of smoother paved roads that promised faster and easier results. Seeking to follow and better define the functional path is a continuing journey, fortunately it is a journey that many have traveled before. Functional Path training is getting back to the basics of movement. It is learning to tune into the body and it’s inherent wisdom to produce rhythmic flowing movement.
6/11/06
About Me
- Name: Vern Gambetta
- Location: Florida, United States
Vern is currently is the Director of Gambetta Sports Training Systems. He has been the a conditioning coach for several teams in Major League Soccer as well as the conditioning consultant to the US Men’s World Cup Soccer team. Vern is the former Director of Conditioning for the Chicago White Sox and Director of Athletic Development for the New York Mets. Vern is recognized internationally as an expert in training and conditioning for sport having worked with world class athletes and teams in a wide variety of sports. He is a popular speaker and writer on conditioning topics having lectured and conducted clinics in Canada, Japan, Australia and Europe. Vern's coaching experience spans 36 years at all levels of competition. Vern has authored six books and over one hundred articles related to coaching and sport performance in a variety of sports. He received his BA from Fresno State University and his teaching credential with a coaching minor from University of California Santa Barbara. Vern obtained his MA in Education with an emphasis in physical education from Stanford University.
4 Comments:
I'm a big fan of Active Release Technique myself- mainly because all you need are your hands. The problem with ASTYM and Graston is not having the gadgets handy when you need them, or even worse, losing them- and they are expensive. Are there any practitoners/patients out there who have experience with both?
I interviewed with a P.T. who endorses Astym and read the brochure she gives out to patients.
Coming from an elite sports med background and manual spine mobs, I just don't get it. The interviewer applied a small instrument to my finger to show me how this works to "relive toxins and provide positive energy." That's a little farfetched for me!
I have had median nerve compression with pronator teres entrappment in my left arm and twice in my right. I have had surgury on both arms. My latest episode (in my right arm) followed a pull/stretch injury and has resulted in 4 mths of pain and now RSD has set in. I just had my third ASTYM treatment this morning and it has done more for my arm than everything else that has been tried (rest -immobilization - oral cotizone - physical therapy - and nerve gangali injection) I can already move my arm further with less pain and stinging/burning sensations, can manually bend my thumb and index finger almost all the way down (they were almost completly stiffened) and can glide the median nerve 3/4 of the way through a nerve glide exersice without pain. IT WORKS !!!!! My last resort is a horrible surgury that took me 11 mths to recover from the last time i had it. Now I have hope that maybe i won't have to go through that again. My therapist is the best and believes in the ASTYM therapy. A first i thought, (Yeah right!) NOW i to am a believer and will be talking with my daughters docter to see it ASTYM might work for her shin splints.
I've had the 'recommended' (by the PT) 5 sessions of ASTYM for chondromalacia in my knee and I don't see any benefit more than just stopping the exercise that caused it (bicycling) for awhile. As of today it still hurts going down stairs and often when bending. So like most wonder cures, it may not be for everybody.
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