Med Fit™ Assessment Process by Core Essentials

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Med Fit™ Post-Rehab Program

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The Med Fit™ assessment process looks at a few basic things:

• Cardiac Risk Assessment. Measuring blood pressure provides us with valuable information letting us know if it is safe to proceed or if you need to see you doctor. If your blood pressure was too high and we had not assessed it, we could of have put you at risk for a heart attack or stroke. Since it only takes a few minutes, it hardly seems worth the risk not to – why most gyms and trainers do not do this is beyond us.
• Postural Analysis. This assessment process is too look at what is called “gross postural asymmetries”. This simply means by looking at the body from a few different angles we can discover the obvious mechanical issues that exist, though many more can be found on closer inspection. For example, somebody with rotator cuff weakness we often see that shoulder/arm dropping several inches lower than the other. That would be an obvious “asymmetry” alerting us that that area in particular is worth investigating.

The rest of the assessment looks at the relative strength and range of motion of muscles & joints, such as the inner thigh (adductors), buttocks (hip extensors), groin muscles (hip flexors), shoulder joint, and more. Each area of the body should have a certain range of motion and any limitations noticed can be further investigated.

Generally, most clients come in with a personal history of injuries that they have had over the course of their life, which have left them with a series of weaknesses. Also since we have become a more sedentary society, we began to develop what is called “layered syndrome”, which simply refers to bands of tight and weak muscle combinations throughout the body. These are the things that hold us back and inhibit us from reaching our physical goals, not our genetic potential or lack of, not our age or gender. It is our ignorance of the mechanical issues we face and our lack of expertise in how to safely exercise is the reason why almost 85% of all people fail to reclaim their health.