The miraculous ability to heal injuries through manipulating the tissues has been understood for hundreds of years, however currently there are very few health care practitioners that understand, recognize, or know how to resolve trigger points and fully restore lost function. Without directly addressing trigger points, patients are likely to experience a superficial rehab at best, as even with a perfect exercise routine, large sections of muscle no longer take part in the contract-release cycle. Loss of performance and function is often blamed on reasons such as “normal age-related changes” but this is rarely the case. Considering all the dysfunction trigger points are known to cause, why do most healthcare practitioners neglect to manipulate and treat the muscles? Why do doctors prescribe medication, braces, joint replacements, and surgeries that will permanently change the body instead of directly addressing the trigger points known to mimic so many conditions when they are present? The answer is complex, but what is not complex is treating what is in front of us. While trigger point therapy has been around in some form for centuries, development of the intervention has been stagnant and neglected during recent decades. Dry needling (a form of trigger point therapy) has gained momentum; however, it tends to be very uncomfortable, carries risks such as infection, and cannot be performed at home by the patient. On top of that, access to practitioners who perform dry-needling at a high level are few-and-far between as many practioners take weekend courses to gain certification. Through realization of the shortcomings of our medical system, the Mountain Man MethodTM was born. Its sole purpose is to restore lost function that is often considered normal as we age, while giving patients with no medical background the skills to heal themselves and avoid the need for PT in the future. Even when MRIs reveal labrum tears, discs herniations, arthritic changes, and other commonly seen defects, patients at Mountain Man PT frequently surpass their pre-injury level of function. Injuries that are problematic for conventional PT are often remarkably simple to rehab—so simple that motivated patients with no medical background frequently gain the ability to fix many common injuries and perform required maintenance that addresses injuries before they happen.

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