Graston Treatment for Olympian Micheal Philps!

Graston Technique Helps to Normalize Your Body from Damage Due to Overuse

When the body does not get appropriate recovery time, damaged tissue
is not able to rebuild stronger than it was before. The body remains
in a state of breakdown, and the accumulation of micro tears in
tissues will eventually result in an overuse injury. Graston technique
helps to normalize your body through breaking scars from micro
tears in tissues for your perfect recovery.

Graston Technique is part of an integrated whole body recovery treatment program; we use in conjunction with other methods of chiropractic care to ensure athletic patients can train harder and recover faster.

U.S.A. Olympic Champion Uses Graston Technique for Sports Recovery

By: Selene Yeager, August 12, 2012

MICHAEL PHELPS: THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO

AFTER THE SCANDALS AND THE SETBACKS, THE GREATEST SWIMMER EVER IS RECHARGED, RELAXED, AND READY TO TAKE HIS FINAL SHOT IN LONDON. THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW A SKINNY KID FROM BALTIMORE ASSEMBLED THE BEST BODY OF WORK—AND BODY—IN U.S. OLYMPIC HISTORY.

BY SELENE YEAGER,

AUGUST 2012 ISSUE

Age: 27 Height: 6'4" Weight: 195 lb Hometown: Baltimore Most athletes follow a regimen that builds endurance, strength, and power over the course of a year. Under coach Bob Bowman, the mastermind of the long-term view, Michael Phelps mapped out a 16-year plan for world domination—the entire duration of his career. In the years before the 2004 Athens Games, Phelps focused on building a massive aerobic capacity, logging 50 miles a week in the pool. Leading up to his record-smashing performance in Beijing in 2008, he added four days a week of weight-intense dry-land training—Keenan Robinson, Phelps' trainer, rotates through a bottomless bag of routines to keep Phelps at the top of his game—and 10 pounds of water-slicing muscle. Fourteen gold (and two bronze) Olympic medals later, he's all about power as he prepares to storm London. In addition to knocking out four sets of five pull-ups while wearing a 40-pound vest, "I'm doing more Olympic-style lifts, like power cleans and snatches and plyometric push presses and box jumps, to get explosive power for jumping off the block and pushing out of turns," Phelps says. "At this point in my career, everybody has caught up. So I'm fine-tuning the little things that add up to make a huge difference."

DETAILS: So what do you do for recovery? Michael Phelps: My trainer, Keenan [Robinson], uses Graston tools, these little metal crowbars. He carves them into my shoulder blades, my back, my knee, my hamstrings—wherever I'm really tight—to loosen things up. It's pretty intense. Obscenities fly out of my mouth the whole time, and I'm usually bruised for two days after it. I also use ice tubs. And when I'm back home, I sleep in an altitude chamber set to about 8,000 feet. All these things help me to be close to my best every time I jump in the water.

Michael Phelps' Workout Tips

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF RECOVERY "Compared to Beijing, I think the biggest thing is just trying to find ways to recover faster. Going into the weight room three times a week, it can be harder to swim, it can be harder to get up and to feel fresh and do this. So it's like you have to find different exercises or different routines that you go through." Here are some of Phelps' activities.

Graston Technique® A modern yet medieval-looking form of soft-tissue manipulation in which the practitioner, in this case Phelps' strength trainer, Keenan Robinson, uses a series of stainless-steel instruments to comb over muscles, find adhesions, and break down scar tissue and stretch connective tissue and muscle fibers. "He takes those little crowbars and carves them into my shoulder blades and I go crazy, letting obscenities fly the whole time," Phelps says. "I bruise for two days. It's pretty intense." But it works. "We used it before a mid-season meet in Missouri in 2007," Robinson recalls. "He was locked up through his rhomboids and lats and external rotators. We went in there and worked it out and he broke the world record in the 200 butterfly. It's amazing."

Note to patients: While Phelps treatment results in some discomfort and bruising, this is not a typical response for GT

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Dr. Hyunsuk Oh graduated from Life University in Marietta, Georgia. Dr. Oh currently holds licenses to practice chiropractic in Maryland and Virginia. He is a member of the Maryland Chiropractic Association, American Chiropractic Association and International Chiropractic Association. Dr. Oh has undergone extensive training and has earned the designate of Certified Chiropractic Extremity Practitioner (CCEP) from the Council on Extremity Adjusting. He has also obtained certification as a Golf Rehabilitation Specialist through Blanchard Institution. Dr. oh has achieved Advanced Certification in the Graston Instrument Assisted Soft-Tissue Mobilization (GISTM) technique (or Graston Technique), a highly advanced and efficient technique developed for treating soft tissue pathology.  He also has achieved Advanced Certification in the SASTM (Sound Assisted Soft-Tissue Mobilization).   Dr. Oh is also a full body licensed provider of Active Release Techniques (ART).  This technique is highly effective for treating a whole host of soft tissue and nerve entrapment issues.   ART is a favorite technique of triathlon participants, volleyball players, marathon runners, and athletes of all sports. Dr. Oh is also a Certified Kinesio® Taping Practitioner (CKTP®). The Kinesio® Taping Method is one of the most sophisticated taping techniques in the world.  It allows for facilitation, inhibition, and functional corrections of the musculoskeletal system.