Butch Phelps B.S. Aging Sciences, LMT, Active Isolated Stretching therapist

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Stretching and Aging Expert

Butch Phelps Quick Facts

Main Areas: Aging Sciences, Active Isolated Stretching, and Neuromuscular massage therapy
Best Sellers: Stretch n' Release Technique
Career Focus: Speaker, educator, author, and business owner
Affiliation: The Muscle Repair Shop, AMTA

Are you frustrated with nagging aches and pains that rise up at the most inopportune times? Have you tries everything including braces, pills, injections, and surgery trying to stop the pain? Butch Phelps has studied the muscles of the body from a mechanical prespective to better understand why we hurt by finding the true cause and not just solve the symptom.

Butch spends time with each of his clients/patients to teach them how to properly stretch their bodies. Most stretching today may actually make your problem worse. Butch is an experienced therapist in muscle therapy for chronic injuries, muscular, and nerve issues for 15 years. Ha has a B.S. in Aging Sciences and has studied how the body ages from 30 on. He understands how to preapre for getting older and what to do if you are already there. Currently Butch owns The Muscle Repair Shop in Sarasota, Florida.

You can email them at: butchphelps@musclerepairshop.com or www.musclerepairshop.com.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Butch Phelps

"How you do anything is how you do everything." T. Harv Eker

Live your life with "definite of purpose." Napoleon Hill

Getting Started With Butch Phelps

The best place to start is to understand that correct stretching requires a different mindset from what we have learned in the past. In the past, strtching involved holding the stretch for long periods of time, using force to make the muscle stretch out, and stretch mutliples of muscle on each stretch.

Once you learn how use your brain to relax the muscle you will find that stretching is very relaxing and effective in freeing up the joints. This will improve your energy level, especailly if you are over 50 and increase your power at any age. Stretching correctly can reduce the need for most joint replacements, back surgeries, and typical injuries as we age. all stretxhing is, is teaching the brain you canmove a particular way. Once the brain knows that, the risk of injury goes away

Your brain is designed to protect you, ANy anticipation of pain will caues your brain to stop you.