Torah Bright, who has used SCENAR since 2004 to treat injuries and enhance athletic performance, won the the Gold Medal in Snowboarding in the 2010 Olympics (go to the bottom of the SCENAR Health website home page). She says, “Scenar therapy benefits appear to be almost limitless for health and wellbeing.” Read more about her Olympic competition experience on the SCENAR Health Blog.
Congratulations, Torah!
SCENAR can keep an athlete healthy, facilitate rapid healing from injuries, and improve athletic performance and endurance. Call us at 337-6854 if you want to be the best athlete you can be!
Used by the Russian athletes in the 2000 Olympics, SCENAR can effectively improve training and performance. During marathon competitions in the late 1990’s, SCENAR was used to not only treat injuries so that athletes could return to competition, but was also found to enhance rapid recovery from the exhaustion of long periods of high physical stress. When added as a regular training aid, SCENAR can increase physical recovery and regulation as well as protecting against muscle strains, overuse, and other injuries. This makes it possible for athletes to sustain a more intensive training, thereby increasing their performance parameters.
Athletes using SCENAR during training experienced shorter recovery times required after training, thereby making their training routines more efficient. The effect of the treatments revitalizes and restores the body’s healing capacity which improves its ability to accommodate training stress. Using SCENAR right after training sessions promotes faster recovery and improves endurance.
Perhaps the most well known effect among athletes is the SCENAR’s ability to accelerate the healing of acute injuries. If SCENAR treatment is begun within moments of an injury, it can significantly minimize the swelling, bruising, and pain that would normally occur, allowing a return to training or competition in a minimal amount of time. Because of the instrument’s compact size, it can be carried along with the athlete to competitions or during training routines. The SCENAR has also been documented to be useful in resolving chronic or repeated injuries by reducing pain and improving strength in an injured joint or muscle. It is used extensively in rehabilitation practices with athletes in Russia, Europe, and Australia.
For some research and testimonial articles related to SCENAR and its use by athletes go here.
Because SCENAR is so complementary to other modalities, we are always looking for ways our clients can augment and facilitate what we are doing related to relieving their pain. There are times when the pain we are treating is based in structural issues or ways in which our clients are habitually using their muscles. The SCENAR can re-educate the muscles to resume their natural positions with resulting pain relief, but these changes can be overridden by old postural habit patterns set up in the body, and the pain can return. In chronic situations, consistent and frequent SCENAR treatment can over time shift the body into healthier muscle use patterns. Typically, our clients are interested in what they can do to help themselves and we often give them ideas about things they can do to improve the way they use their bodies. But, we recently encountered something that has the potential to give our clients a way to support what we are doing with SCENAR as well as learn how to use their muscles and bodies in ways that promote health and prevent any recurrence of pain.
One of the things we love about the field of natural medicine is the numerous alternatives that we are exposed to that promote health and well being. I have a personal interest in this because of having had polio with residual paralysis of my left foot. Needless to say, wearing a brace on my left lower leg sets me up for all manner of improper muscle use all over my body and all the varieties of pain from my neck down to my feet that result from that. Complicating that is Post Polio Syndrome which is caused by the death of motor neurons damaged in the initial polio infection that have been overused for a lifetime. A progressive condition, I was told early on that I would end up in a wheelchair. I believe SCENAR has slowed that progression and it is a God send for managing the pain I encounter from living in this wounded temple. Now I have found another incredible tool that will help me assist my body even further.
The Alexander Technique was developed over a hundred years ago by F. Matthias Alexander, a young Australian actor, who discovered that unconscious habits of posture and movement can interfere with the performance of normal activities. Originally used by performers involved in music, dance, drama, and opera, it has now gone mainstream and is used as a practical method to promote body awareness, flexibility, energy conservation, and ease in daily activities. The technique engages the thinking process and refines an individual’s ability to perceive the way they move. Through observation, experimentation, and an Alexander teacher’s guidance, habitual muscular tension and awkward or inefficient movement patterns are reduced or eliminated. The stress and demands of modern life have fostered a virtual epidemic of neck, back, and other problems related to misaligned posture and improperly tensed muscles. The method is considered not a therapy, but an educational process, whereby awareness can be brought to an area of tension in the body and that tension can be consciously released allowing the muscles to resume their normal positioning. The Alexander Technique empowers and enables people of any age to make positive, lasting changes in their personal movement patterns that can be applied to daily functional activities such as walking, stair climbing, moving in and out of chairs, bending, and reaching as well as the more complex movement tasks of work, sports, or the performing arts.
We found out about this technique through Michele Drivon who learned to be an Alexander teacher through three years of training in California. She was interested in how SCENAR could compliment her work, just as we were interested in how her work could benefit our clients. Because of my personal situation, I’ve been working with her individually and have been impressed with the helpful learning experience it has proven to be (for more information on my personal experience, go to the Healing Tips page). We are happy to recommend her to anyone who has pain related to muscle tension and postural issues. She can be reached at 828-712-2804.
This spring will be an exciting time for Healing Innovations. On March 21-22 Kathy and Penny will be providing free SCENAR demonstrations for participants in the 2009 Organic Growers School Spring Conference at Blue Ridge Community College. The SCENAR can be a significant help to anyone who gardens or farms with the strains and muscle overuse involved in that work. It is also “organic” in the truest sense of the word in that it improves the body’s own ability to heal itself with no drugs or invasive methods. Since Kathy and Penny are also organic gardeners, they hope to be able to learn from some of the lectures as well.
As representatives of the large number of natural health practices in this area, Kathy and Penny have been invited to be members of a panel at the Boomers and Beyond Summit to be held at the Reuter Center on the UNCA campus on April 14, 2009. They will discuss ways in which use of SCENAR can facilitate the maintenance of a healthy and active lifestyle in natural and effective ways.
And most exciting, Kathy and Penny will be traveling to Fort Worth, Texas to train with Alexander Revenko, one of the two inventors who worked together in the Russian space program to develop the SCENAR technology. The training conference, on April 16-19, is hosted by Tomatex and is Revenko’s first training to be held in the US. His company manufactures and distributes the RITM SCENAR that Healing Innovations uses in our treatments.
Healing Innovations, Use by athletes, injuries | Penny | 
February 25, 2010 10:09 pm | 
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