VIRTUALLY PAIN FREE TREATMENT
At Muscle Mechanic, Chris will focus the majority of the treatment on the nervous system assessing and testing strength and weakness patterns within the body. Which may impact on the bodies overall function and ability to maintain balanced strength within each movement pattern. Treatment is with minimal pain or discomfort and will be outlined to you in detail at your first assessment or appointment.
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ABOUT
Chris Heddle is the founder and owner of one of Melbourne’s largest myotherapy and remedial massage clinics. His extensive knowledge and training has allowed him to assist, grow and inspire many therapists in the myotherapy and massage industry. Thus, encouraging them to expand their knowledge, invest in their own personal practices and cultivate an industry umbrella of shared knowledge and skills to benefit clients.
Chris has been working in the industry since 2009 and is a qualified myotherapist and member of Massage & Myotherapy Australia. Chris has extensive experience in treating clients, eliminating pain and improving his client’s health and performance. His passion for knowledge and his determination to question and challenge main stream practices has enabled even better outcomes for his clients. This passion resulted in him undertaking further training overseas and expanding his skill set to incorporate multiple techniques which are highly regarded in the United States, Asia and Europe.
After years of listening to clients explain their pain and discomfort, Chris no longer believes that the source of the problem relates solely in the muscles and connective tissue, or that these structures are the only areas of concern that require treatment. Nor does Chris believe that massaging high tone areas will result in long term solutions, with some clients experiencing short term improvement, but often requiring ongoing treatment. It is imperative to never disregard the intelligence of the human body, and understand that what we experience as pain, discomfort serves as a protective mechanism and a message to us that there is disharmony within the body and when left unaddressed will later lead to injury. Therefore by treating the underlying need for the protective mechanism, the high tone will instantly release. While muscles do control the movement of the human body, these movements are governed by the nervous system and thus, with this integration, Chris believes that it is imperative to treat the governing nervous system as a priority.
The treatment of the nervous system, which Chris believes is a highest facet of the integrated human body hierarchy, will fundamentally impact muscles and whole body functioning which are inevitably all incorporated.
a holistic approach
Trauma, physically, emotionally and chemically and all life circumstances over time will impact on the body both physically and mentally. Our bodies are essentially boxes of stored information that track and hold in the nervous system and can present as tight muscles, pain, discomfort, tightness, shortness in breath, panic attacks, pulling sensations, unbalanced body dysfunctions; these stored events are just another layer of stress which manifests and builds in the body and impacts the functionality of organs, muscles, breath and mental calmness and clarity and overall wellbeing.
According to Chris, tissue and muscle damage is still a component that requires the important tool of soft tissue manipulation. He holds many additional qualifications in fascial release, fascial integration and fascial manipulation. However, the muscle tissue itself will heal within days or weeks, whereas the nervous system component that underlies the cause of the initial pain or injury can persist indefinitely, if left untreated.
An extremely simplistic example of this would be a client presenting with hamstring, low back and/or hip flexor pain. The glutes may have previously been identified as weak or inactive. However there can be a multitude of factors as to why the glutes are in this state such as, inability to contract in a standing position, in a alternate leg position (walking/running), inability to contract when pressure is applied to the knee or ankle (standing) or the muscle may be strong however it will inhibit as soon as core control is required to support the contraction. Therefore the protective tightness in the hamstring, low back or hip flexor will persist until these things are corrected.
why work from home?
Given the events in the world of 2020 onwards, Chris was in search of a greater balance to meet the needs of his clients but also his family. Therefore he built a separate private dwelling adjacent to his home, in order to treat his clients in a comfortable yet professional environment.
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Getting Here:
Tram 109 - Graham St Stop,
150m walk to location.
Our Address:
23 Walter Street,
Port Melbourne 3207