The Move Well. Feel Good. Approach
The Move Well. Feel Good. approach of treatment and education was developed by Dr. Patrick McBrearty as a result of a mountain bike accident he experienced in 2014. This injury caused him to experience intense pain and limited his ability to be able to move or play with his children. These physical limitations motivated him to do a great deal of research on how to not just repair the body, but get the body moving and functioning properly, with the ultimate goal of getting the body to function better than it did prior to an accident or sports injury. Dr. McBrearty has been an instructor with Active Release Techniques for over 15 years. Over that time, he has been able to learn from some of the best soft tissue practitioners and doctors around the country. These practitioners helped Dr. McBrearty learn effective techniques in movement and soft tissue assessment that help to determine the root cause of a person’s mechanical and structural dysfunction. Being a chiropractor and soft tissue specialist, Dr. McBrearty has had consistent success getting people out of pain and creating the ability for people to move properly using the knowledge and training he acquired. Over the years, Dr. McBrearty has learned that just because you have the ability to move properly doesn’t mean that your body is programmed correctly to move with proper biomechanics. During his recovery from many injuries, Dr. McBrearty had to meticulously retrain his body to move and stretch in ways that he hadn’t been able to. Reestablishing the body's ability to be able to stabilise while reestablishing and reprogramming proper mobility is a foundational concept in the Move Well. Feel Good. approach with our patients. That, coupled with specific education that is provided to our patients based on their individual needs, is what sets the Move Well. Feel Good. approach to care, apart from everyone else.
"Training the body to move properly is another vital component of the Move Well. Feel Good approach to care."
The Move Well. Feel Good approach adopts a philosophy that consists of getting the body to move correctly with proper mechanics and posture while educating patients to give them the knowledge and tools to be able to take care of themselves. With this philosophy in mind, Dr. McBrearty combined the approaches of many other medical professions to maximize the benefits of each and achieve the best results in the shortest amount of time for his patients.
There are many moving parts when it comes to moving the body. The traditional chiropractic approach focuses on making sure the joints are all able to move correctly, and the nervous system is functioning optimally. The traditional soft tissue approach focuses on making sure that the muscles are loose and soft so that they can move properly and have proper blood flow to the tissues. The traditional rehabilitation approach strengthens the muscles to reinforce the support to the joints and provides strength and stability to the body to enhance performance and reduce the risk of injury. In addition to these highly effective approaches, Dr. McBrearty is adding one more very important approach: accessible and specific patient education. Dr. McBrearty has found that there are areas in the body that become very susceptible to injury or pain, and he refers to these areas as “Common Areas”. These are areas where Dr. McBrearty has seen his patients come in with pain and discomfort consistently over the past 19 years. Dr. McBrearty has developed a patient program to allow his patients to effectively self-treat and stretch these “Common Areas” to be able to manage pain and reduce the risk of injury. He has also developed specific guidelines to help restore proper function to these areas once the patient has been able to regain the ability to move with proper biomechanics.
The Move Well. Feel Good approach was developed for a simple reason. Dr. McBrearty found that when people move well, they feel good. Based on this simple concept, Dr. McBrearty began to establish the “Common Areas” of pain that his patients consistently came in with. With this in mind, he began to map out these areas of the body and develop specific plans for how to effectively self-massage and stretch these areas. Over the past 20 years, Dr. McBrearty has been educating his patients on how to take care of themselves, but his patients would occasionally return with more pain than when they left. When this occurred, he would ask them what they were doing between visits, and he discovered that patients were doing the wrong things or doing too much. This caused their pain levels to increase. It’s for this reason that he developed very specific rules for self-massaging and stretching. Once these rules were put in place, patients rarely ever came back complaining of experiencing more pain after their visit, and he was able to achieve better results with his patients in a shorter amount of time. Dr. McBrearty has done a great deal of research on what tools to use, how to use them, and which tool is the appropriate tool for the injured area. The Move Well. Feel Good approach allows Dr. McBrearty and his staff to teach you what to do and what to use for all of the “Common Areas” of the body so that you can effectively manage your body for whatever activity you participate in.
The MOVE WELL. FEEL GOOD.™ approach allows our doctors to quickly and effectively treat a large scope of issues that include:
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Neck pain.
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Low back pain.
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Shoulder injuries.
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Postural issues.
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Golfer’s Elbow.
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Tennis Elbow.
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
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Wrist injuries.
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Hand injuries.
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Hip injuries.
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ITB syndrome.
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Sciatica.
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Quadriceps Strain.
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Hamstrings Strain.
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Groin Strain.
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Runner’s Knee.
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Shin Splints.
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Osgood Schlatter’s Disease.
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Sever’s Disease.
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Achilles Tendonitis.
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Compartment Syndrome.
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Plantar Fasciitis.
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And many other sports injuries and soft tissue injuries.
In addition to educating on how to self-massage each “Common Area,” Dr. McBrearty has also established how to stretch all of the structures in each “Common Area” to make sure that they are all mobile. Movement is a key component of a healthy body. Movement increases circulation to the body and its tissues. The circulation of the body is a key component to the body. Circulation allows the body to bring oxygen and nutrients into the tissue and flush out toxins and waste. A body with good circulation is able to repair, rebuild, and recover, while a body without good circulation is stagnant and painful. The key to a quick and fast recovery is to create a quality environment for the body and its tissues to heal. Proper stretching is a key component to creating a quality environment within the body.
Training the body to move properly is another vital component of the Move Well. Feel Good approach to care. When a person becomes injured, their body will figure out how to move around the pain, which causes the body to create compensatory patterns of movement. This will cause other structures to do jobs that they were not designed for. Over time, these structures will become tired, fatigued, and painful. These are the structures that Dr. McBrearty usually has to treat first when his patients come in for treatment. Once these structures have been treated and are no longer painful, the root cause of the problem will arise and be addressed to help restore proper function. Once this function has been restored, it's imperative that the body goes through a "reset". This is where we retrain the nervous system by reprogramming correct motor patterns with proper biomechanics into the body. This results in improved function and protects the patient from injury in the future.
