AMIT/PERFORMANCE/SPORTS | DrHillChiropractic

Performance Health

"Move Better, Play Harder"

Many professional and other athletes, have benefited from AMIT™ therapy. AMIT™ can promote quick recovery from injuries, as well as enhance performance. AMIT™ can also benefit active people and others who have experienced stress or trauma to the body.

Patient Testimonial - on AMIT™

by Rhonda Britten, Emmy Award winner and Bestselling Author of "Fearless Living":

Since my hip replacement surgery last year, I’d been struggling with getting my hips aligned and my walking gait correct so I could feel strong again and perhaps even wear heels.I’d been going to physical therapy faithfully, visited a regular ol’ chiropractor, and went to Egoscue Sessions. But nothing held my hips in place longer than 24 hours. Everyone said the same thing: Some of my muscles were overcompensating for the weaker ones, and I my weaker muscles would not “turn on,” so I could not get stronger. I would work out and take walks yet because my weaker muscles weren’t “activated” nothing changed. I was out of alignment. My walking gait was off. And forget wearing heels. This struggle went on for over a year. It was extremely frustrating. That’s when I turned to Dave Hill and experienced Advanced Muscle Integration Technique (AMIT™ Method). Immediately I felt like my hips were even, and my tingling and pain were gone. Thank you, Dave Hill. You’ve helped me walk pain-free and wear heels again!

Sports Chiropractic & AMIT™ (Advanced Muscle Integration Therapy)

Our practice also includes Performance Health Sport Chiropractic and AMIT™ (Advanced Muscle Integration Therapy), a revolutionary advancement in sports medicine. As a certified chiropractic sports physician and AMIT™ practitioner, Dr. Hill provides advanced care in performance health and sports chiropractic to help athletes increase function and wellness, and to recover from injuries more quickly. Dr. Hill has worked with professional athletes as well as college athletes to help them recover from injuries and enhance performance.

What is AMIT™ (Advanced Muscle Integration Therapy)?

Advanced Muscle Integration Therapy is a systematic treatment of common joint and muscle conditions experienced by active people. AMIT™ is a revolutionary advancement in sports medicine. While AMIT™ can greatly benefit athletes, it can also be very beneficial to active people, and others who have experienced injuries or other trauma to the body.

AMIT™ practitioners can predict injuries by examining and identifying instabilities in the body, which in most cases lead to injury. The advanced procedures utilized in AMIT™ therapy allow for rapid correction of instabilities resulting in improved functions, removal of pain, and an overall new level of performance.

The developers of the AMIT™ system discovered the primary cause of chronic joint and muscle pain is due to inhibited muscles caused by overuse or injury. Although the pain of the injury may go away over time, the functional imbalances remains, and in turn can lead to chronic pain. With AMIT™ therapy, these imbalances can be identified and corrected, allowing healing to take place rapidly without the need for drugs or surgery.

Objective precision neurological muscle testing is the back bone of AMIT™ therapy. This testing is done in office manually by the AMIT™ practitioner.

Please contact our office to find out if AMIT™ might be of benefit to you. With AMIT™, Dr. Hill has helped athletes, professional and college level, and others back to a more balanced state to promote healing and recovery.

More on AMIT™:

When a muscle is overloaded beyond its ability to sustain the load, one of two things happen. The muscle fibers tear and/or the nervous system inhibits the muscle, much like a circuit breaker in an electrical circuit. This is done to protect the muscle from more severe injury.

If the inhibited muscle is loaded again during physical activity it will not be able to contract appropriately to support the force applied and will be weak. If the muscle continues to be stressed, the body will create pain so as to avoid more damage.

This can also occur when a joint is swollen, inflamed or injured setting up what is identified as “Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition” (AMI). The process of AMI occurs when a joint is swollen, inflamed or injured; any muscle that attaches to the joint or crosses over the joint will become inhibited. This is common in post surgical cases and explains why rehabilitation can be slow or reaches an unacceptable plateau.

Once a muscle is inhibited, the central nervous system develops an adaptive strategy to use other muscles or tissues to take on more of the load. This leads to adaptive movement patterns and is called “recruitment” or “adaptation”. The adapted tissue becomes the next site of injury and the injury / adaptation cycle continues.

Eventually, there will be no muscles in an area to adapt to. This places more stress on the ligaments and connective tissues and they begin to break down more rapidly. This leads to degenerative changes in the joint.

Objective precision neurological muscle testing is the back bone of AMIT™ therapy. This testing is done in office manually by the AMIT™ practitioner.

Testing of isolated muscles assesses the function of individual muscles to determine if they are inhibited or functional. This defines positions of instability.

Muscle overload can occur because of: