TRE Helps Improve Sports Performance, Provides Faster Recovery and Releasing Core muscles and Injuries
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TRE releases the tension in your muscles and sets your body back to recovery mode for a quicker turn around after sports workouts or injuries.
The reduction in chronic muscle tension, removalof restrictive movement and changes in holding patterns from using TRE can aid recovery from long term injuries and improve sports performance. TRE can also help you reduce back and neck pain by releasing those deep defensive muscles, like the psoas muscle and trapezius that tighten up unconsciously under stress or trauma. |
How come my back and neck get tight and sore when I am stressed ?
When you are under stress
in everyday life, your body reacts in a pattern that has evolved
in near all mammals. As part of this pattern, your body
acts instinctively, driven by the sympathetic nervous system, to contract and protect vulnerable soft areas, like those around your
throat and belly. Unconscious nerve signals instruct muscles around your throat
and neck to shorten, pulling these areas closer together. For defence around
your soft under-belly, muscles tighten up pulling your torso forward. The main
muscle protecting you here is your psoas muscle, which is a very strong leg flexor, and is the only muscle that connects your
lower back to your legs. Even minor tightening and shortening of these muscles can lead to poor posture. The result is rounding of the upper back, extension of the head forwards,
increasing of the arch of the lower back, and rounding of the
shoulders. This mostly unconscious pattern of muscle tightness and shift of
posture can lead to pain and stiffness in your body.
How does releasing this pattern with TRE help my neck and back pain
This unconscious pattern for physical protection worked well in nature, when we had to defend ourselves or quickly escape from an animal chasing us for example. However in our modern society, with stress coming from all directions in our lives, and persisting for many hours, days, weeks or even years, sometimes our bodies can remain in this tightened stress state as a habit, for extended periods of time, leading to long term poor posture and sore necks, shoulders and back. A way to help clear up these issues is to relieve these muscles by resetting them, via the sympathetic nervous system which is driving your stress response. TRE is a very safe and easy way to naturally do this. The tremor in TRE initiates the small and rapid muscle contractions, allowing the body to reset this unconscious ‘fight and flight’ state, returning you to a healthier and more balanced state, with normal muscle tension and improved posture. The positive effects flow on to other systems of your body, resulting a more relaxed state.
Does this stress muscle response have the same tightening effect on other muscles too causing stiffness and pain ?
Yes, it does. You might have noticed that when you are stressed your jaw may become tight or old injuries flare up or your joint pain starts hurting again. The reason for this is during the stress response your sympathetic nervous system activates large muscle groups throughout your body to tighten up, in case you need to defend yourself or escape. More blood flows into your muscles than when you are relaxed, and the muscles are pumped with adrenaline, energising you for action. This is great in the short term when you need the energy for action, but over a longer period of time amongst other problems it becomes draining on the body to continually be in this heightened state. Over time it can lead to joint issues, inflammation and muscle pain, with stiffness that many people may consider just part of the ageing process. However it doesn’t need to be like this, your muscles can regain a much more flexible supple state, leaving them feeling great and you leaving you moving freer and more easy than you have in years.
What does this have to do with core muscles ?
Your core ‘strength’ comes not just from the power in your deeper core muscles (like psoas), but also from their ability to stabilise and support you as you move around in everyday life. Your core muscles work at their best for you when they are engaging and activating as you need them, and relaxing when not required. When our core isn’t working correctly, like with poor posture, or is tightened continually without relief, as in the stress response, your body may recruit other peripheral muscles to try and do the job for the fatigued core muscles. When this happens our bodies quickly develop fatigued, resulting in pain and potential injuries, because the muscles are not being used as they were evolved to be used. Through TRE you can reverse this effect, freeing your core muscles, balancing all your muscles, and returning you to flexibility and suppleness, and to a more easy and free flowing way of moving.
How does TRE work ?
TRE uses a series of exercises, stretches and yoga type positions to induce very rapid muscle contraction and relaxation (tremor). These signal to the body, brain and nervous system that the body is returning to a balanced, recovery state, activating or re-engaging muscles as required, clearing the adrenal charge, releasing tight areas and initiating fascial style stretches to improve tissue and joint flexibility and movement.
Testimonials
"Earlier on the day, I had completed a Pilates class, then went along for an osteo appointment (pains in my right shoulder and hip which I have had for 3 months but nothing seems to be fixing.) After completing the exercises, we sat back up for a discussion and to my amazement I no longer had any pain my hip. In the couple of days that followed, the pain hasn't returned to my hip or shoulder. I am so happy that I have been introduced to these exercises.” Carolyn, Melbourne
“I use TRE for a great recovery program after I run and after I lift weights”, Stew Smith, Navy Seal |
How does TRE help me recover better from sports, exercise and training ?
TRE and core release exercises can effectively be used as a tool to recover from sports and training, minimising the general body soreness and tension felt immediately after a game, exercise or heavy training. TRE works on a number of levels and time scales to ease the tension in your body and aid recovery:
Using TRE immediately after sports, neurogenic tremors from doing TRE induce rapid muscle contractions and relaxation to both relieve tight muscle areas and down regulate the nervous system. The effects include: 1· The improvement in core muscle efficiency and better muscle activation aids endurance and stamina, meaning it’s easier for you to get better results, moving more efficiently and more freely with better stability. 2· In the longer term TRE reduces overall muscle tension and improves muscle activation to make movement more efficient during sports. 3. TRE resets the sympathetic nervous system, activating and promoting the parasympathetic “rest and digest” state which speeds recovery, repair, growth and healing. 4· Parasympathetic nervous system activation leads to better digestion and extraction of nutrients, improved blood flow to essential organs, increased bone marrow production and can help better regulate blood pressure. 5· Anecdotal evidence suggests that delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), the pain you sometimes feel after exercising, especially if you haven’t done it for a while, is reduced or removed through TRE immediately after sports. 6 The lymphatic system, which removes metabolic waste from muscles, is called into action with TRE. 7· Overall posture and joint position are improved for better movement and more efficiency means better stamina. 8 TRE can release the diaphragm and ribs for better breathing and more efficient use of oxygen. How can TRE help with injuries, accidents and surgery
Injuries, accidents and surgery all lead to changes in the way you use your body and muscles. All of these major events can shock the body, as it needs to call on extra resources to survive the trauma and threat to our body’s survival. This is the case in surgery or major injuries, even if we are not conscious to the pain, because we are anesthetised or unconscious at the time. The body is still threatened, by opened wounds, and physical damage, and needs to somehow respond and recover to the wound on an extraordinary scale, setting up the healing process in the area.
During healing, we may protect these painful areas, to try and ensure we don’t bump them or avoiding someone else hitting them accidently and hurting them again. While they are painful we tend to use other muscles groups to compensate for the ones that we aren’t using. For example if we have hurt our right ankle or knee, we will favour our left leg during that time, leading to muscle fatigue and joint pain on the left side also, through overuse and misbalance. If scar tissue has formed during the healing of an injury, or after surgery, this scar tissue is made of collagen, and it doesn’t move as elastically or stretch as easily as normal tissue. The tightness produced by the scar will restrict movement in this area and in the long term may create unbalanced tension in the supporting and connective tissue around the scar. TRE can assist in all these cases. It can help release the deeper anxiety or stored trauma relating from an accident, injury or surgery and safely remove these in a slow, gradual way. TRE can initiate movements that relieve other tension from the body, and can actually innately seek out other tight areas within the body, slowly stretching, releasing and relaxing muscles, fascia and connective tissue. Leaving you and your body in a more relaxed state. Neurologically, TRE can help balance the body. Neurologically resetting muscle groups to improve the patterns of compensation that we may be still be using, even years after the event. |
