It begins when
Cheick Kongo, former UFC and current Bellator Heavyweight MMA fighter and Laura Mildon became the best of friends – they think they’re siblings but they’re not fooling anybody, Laura is short and Cheick is 6’5” tall.
Cheick and Laura shared a similar problem: shoulder injury. Cheick showed Laura something new to America called TECAR therapy with a device from France. Together they brought this technology to the United States, got it through the FDA process and began training other doctors and therapists how to rapidly heal sports injuries in half the time of traditional physical therapy.
We look at the body differently. We treat differently. If we get a right-handed pitcher in, we can automatically see how their body is sculpted to perform the task of launching a ball 100mph to a batter. We know that the team’s therapists and trainers see that person as a right arm. We see a whole body attached to that rocket launcher of an arm. So when an athlete comes in with a chief complaint of a specific body part – we begin unraveling the mystery as to why that part hurts beyond just being an overuse injury.
Athletics is about muscle memory, repetition (lots and lots of repetition), posture, fast and slow twitch muscle training. When an athlete is using their body, it’s just a matter of time for fatigue and potential injury to sneak in.
