A CMSS is a practitioner who uses a unique thought process and science-based technical skill set to address you issues with poor movement, muscle tightness, and muscle and joint paint. CMSS practitioners take the time to carefully identify aspects of your muscle system where its quality has been decreased, identify opportunities for improvement in are with low quality motor control, and provide you with the education your body requires to complete and maintain these improvements to your system.

CMSS Objectives:

• Identify the area of low-quality movement, muscle tightness and joint discomfort.

• Address and Restore low quality movements and positions with precision exercises to allow for higher-quality muscle function.

• Decrease Sensations of Discomfort in muscles and joints by improving muscle contractions and control.

• Teach you self-directed exercises and techniques that you can do on your own to give you control over your health, keep your independence, and assure your success.

While the work of a Certified Muscle Systems Specialist and the work of a physiotherapy may look similar, the philosophy and thought process differ greatly.

Physiotherapy generally focuses on a patient’s complaint of pain or tightness, and as a result the therapy is almost always performed on a or around the area of the patient’s pain. The Physical therapy approach often subscribes to the philosophy of “local problem, local solution”.

A Certified Muscle System Specialist sees the body as one interconnected, integrated, and interacting system. This philosophy provides the underpinnings for our approach.

Our work focus is not where you feel pain, but on your control. Any area of the body with low-quality muscular control can contribute to a problem with movement, pain, tightness, or discomfort you are experiencing in any other area of the body. As we help you improve control throughout your system, we can elicit a significant, positive effect on how your body feels and moves. Our clients are often surprised that improving muscle control in an area can improve pain they were experiencing at a different location of their body.

We take a full body (holistic) approach to solving control issues.

Improved quality in life’s physical activities: your job, your daily responsibilities, and in your life’s passions, such as activities with family, golf, hiking and more.

Increased confidence in your body’s ability to move with injury or pain.

Decreased physical and mental stress.

Improved self-efficacy as you will learn and master exercises and techniques you can employ on your own to help yourself continue to get and stay better.

No- we are not approved by Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) or with other public health plans. Some of our clients have managed to have their sessions covered but typically it is on a case-by-case basis.

That will depend on many factors, including your personal history. Typically, we will notice changes within the very first session and we should have a clear idea if our service is working for you within a few visits depending on the nature of your situation. On seldom occasions- it could take longer. Remember, the body is very complicated, and your issues may have compensated for years or decades! Generally, if you are very healthy and the body’s physiology is not severely stressed- results take far less time.