The Story Behind Your Fix

Meet our running-pain-fix guru: Scott Hadley (PhD, DPT). Blend a PhD in Human Anatomy and Neuroscience with a Clinical Doctorate in Physical Therapy and what do you get?

For Scott, he got a crazy idea: combine scientifically-proven neurological research with top-notch physical therapy skills in order to treat running pain issues that have seldom been accurately understood or successfully treated.

Actually, it wasn't so crazy an idea. For the past two years, Scott has been using his treatment approach (NMT™ or Neuromuscular Manipulative Therapy™) with remarkable success, proving that runners don't have to live with their most common pain-issues.

But that's not all he found.  In using NMT™, Scott discovered that he can also help runners prevent these injuries as well as increase their strength and performance significantly. This isn't just hype. Through careful testing and outcomes-based evidence, Scott has proven time and again the effectiveness of this method. It's the reason why he was invited to work with the Grand Rapids Ballet and local sports teams. The results speak for themselves.

Drawing from Scott's 10 years of college and university teaching, the convenience of modern-day technology, and a team of friends/walking testimoneis, we're excited to make this cutting-edge information available to you through this website.

But don't just take our word for it. See for yourself. Get your fix and get running pain-free!

The Science Behind Your Fix

Understanding the science behind your fix starts by understanding stretch reflexes. The most common example of a stretch reflex occurs when your doctor taps your knee with a little rubber hammer. The resulting knee jerk reflex belongs to a category of reflexes called stretch reflexes. These stretch reflexes are found in most of your muscles and allow them to contract without conscious thought.

Looking deeper into stretch reflexes, we find just how connected they are across muscle groups. Scientific studies have proven for years that the quick stretch of one muscle can also cause other muscles to contract. A neuroscientist named Sherrington first discovered this in the late 19th century, showing that when the quadriceps contract in a stretch reflex, the hamstrings relax. Another neuroscientist, J.C. Eccles, in 1957 mapped dozens of these stretch reflex pathways between muscles. And since then, hundreds of scientific papers have been written on how stretch reflexes regulate our movement.

It’s actually quite incredible. Without having to think about it, your stretch reflexes cause muscles to contract in coordinated patterns during complex movements. They allow you to walk and run without concentrating on how your body can endure the force of each falling step.

Science also teaches us that stretch reflex in healthy muscles works quite differently than stretch reflex in overworked or inhibited muscles. Whereas a healthy muscle will reflexively work in tandem with other muscles, stretch reflexes will overcompensate to other muscles if one isn’t able to get the job done. But this knowledge is where science had mostly stopped.

Until now. As a neuroscientist (PhD) and doctor of physical therapy (DPT), Scott saw first-hand how pain-issues naturally develop when overworked muscles reflexively depend on other muscles. He began studying how this unhealthy compensation can also result in runners experiencing referred pain, or pain signals being sent from one muscle to another (like heart attack victims experiencing pain in their arm). And this study has led to Scott proving time and time again how identifying and treating the source can eliminate the pain within days or even minutes.

So while other treatments are focusing on the source and resulting in extravagant waste of time, money (including surgery, which continues to prove ineffective), and energy (you should be running!), Scott’s method cuts to the root cause.

His revolutionary method (Neuromuscular Manipulative Therapy) is the basis of every product found at TrekoClinics.com. So whether you get a QuickFix (treating a muscle causing mild aggravation) or SuperFix (treating the root of more painful problems), Scott will teach you to rightly understand and correct your running pain issue at its source. Then you can go and do what you love—running pain-free!