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ATHLETES
 
WITH BACK & NECK PAIN
 
 
 

 

Is back and neck pain affecting your performance?

 

Tried everything and nothing helped?

 

Do you want to permanently eliminate back and neck pain naturally?

 

Internationally-reknown M.D. and Doctor of Osteopathy, Guy Voyer (www.guyvoyer.com) offers a comprehensive set of postural exercises called ELDOA designed to relieve tensions & pain in the spine and reverse the degenerative process. 

 

Improve your posture:

  • Normalize tissue tensions
  • Improved biomechanics allows for better performance, minimizing joint wear and 

           more efficient expenditure of energy

  • Become more competitive - more power, strength & speed
  • Better core strength, function & coordination 
  • Minimize tissue imflammation
  • Recover faster allowing you to return to your game
  • Longer competitive career!!

 

 

ELDOA is the answer!

 

 

Some Of The Athletes ELDOA Will Have A Significant Contribution:

  • Golfers
  • Tennis Players
  • Runners
  • Boxers & MMA

 

 

Golfers:

 

Consider just one aspect of golf, the drive.  During a traditional round of golf (18-holes) a player will exert near-maximal rotational physical effort at least 18 times driving the ball at the beginning of each hole.  A healthy, pain-free back and neck is key if you are to perform well executing this shot along with other stages of your game. 

If the back is experiencing pain, a player has little, if any chance of performing as well as they would with no back pain.  A healthy, pain-free and functional spine is a must if you are to play to your expectations.  With no back pain and normal connective tissue tension, the spine's ability to produce more power and speed increases as does it's capacity to rotate.  This basically amounts to longer, more accurate drives and other distant shots, less strain on neck-shoulders-elbows-wrists-back-hips-knees-ankles and if the putting goes well, lower scores. 

ELDOA exercises are specific to the spine.  They reverse the effects of golf and adverse lifestyles on the back.  Performing the ELDOA exercises regularly will amount to a healthier spine and a better golf game. 

 

 

Tennis Players:

 

Maximum spinal extension while serving and high-speed single-arm repetitive rotations during volleying create unbalanced compressive forces upon the discs, vertebraes and other connective tissue of the spine.  This will eventually cause degeneration of the vertebrae and the intervertebral discs.  The spine and surrounding tissues must recover and return back to normal length, tensions and hydration in order to remain healthy and functional. 

Tennis has a similar carry-over to golf's rotational movements therefore the sport's requirement for a healthy spine are the same.  As with golf, I would recommend performing ELDOA exercises on a regular basis to help you with your overall tennis game. 

Remember, A Healthy Back is a Healthy Body! 

 

 

Runners:

 

ELDOA is ideal for runners because it helps reverse the compressive forces on the body from the pounding which running creates.  The repetitive impact of feet upon hard surfaces creates tremendous forces & vibration through the body via the spine.  If these forces are not effectively dissipated outwardly to the extremities, the back and neck must absorb the shock before it reaches the head.  This places excessive pressure on the spinal muscles, in particularly the small interspinal & neck muscles, to absorb the shock.  To improve the ability to absorb and dissapate the shock, better biomechanics including ideal postural alignment (static and dynamic) is required.  Because of the decompressive effects on the spine, the ELDOA exercises are well-suited to address these issues. 

 

 

Boxers & MMA:

 

Like tennis and golf, full-contact sports like boxing and mixed martial arts typically requires one side of the body to dominate during training and competition.  When a fighter repeatedly throws more punches and kicks from one side than the other, this dominance eventually creates musculoskeletal imbalances which in turn adversely affects the spine. 

Take note of a fighter's typical posture for protecting his head.  Trunk in flexion, rounded shoulders, head forward, chin tucked in.  This eventuality results in the permanent adatation to this posture of the head positioned forward of the shoulders.  The weight of the head in this position places tremendous strain on the musculoskeletal structures of the neck and shoulders.  This will eventually become symptomatic, expressing itself as pain, degeneration and limited range-of-motion of the upper back and neck. 

 

Professional Testimonial: 

My experienced using ELDOA on several ranked fighters is it had very positive effects on every one of them.   

 

CHAD GEORGE; WORLD-RANKED MMA FIGHTER: 

 

"I was having severe back pain which was affecting my training.  It was getting worse and there was nothing that was helping.  Deane showed me several ELDOA  exercises to do every day after training.  I started noticing a difference in pain after a few days.  After two weeks, the pain was gone and my training went all-out!  I do ELDOA every day after training.  I can safely say that ELDOA saved my career as a fighter."
 

HAMISH WRIGHT; GOLFER 2-HANDICAP:

"I had played competitive golf and distant running (up to 100 miles each week) since I was in my late-teens and it had caught up with me.  I am 44 years old and the body is not performing quite as well as it did.  My back was hurting, tight shoulders, repeatedly straining calf and hamstrings muscles and overall not doing well.  I began doing the ELDOA exercises one year ago and it has made the difference between being hurt and continuing to perform well especially my golf game.  I recommend it to anyone who wishes to be the best they can be, without the injuries that typically accompanies high-level physical performance."  

 

JARROD BUNCH; NFL PLAYER:

 

"After playing five seasons as a starting NFL player and currently competing internationally as a Ju-Jitsu fighter my body has gone through a lot to say the least.  All of this had caused my body to become very tight and I was unable to stand up straight.  It was progressively getting worse.  All the stretching I had learnt from my football years and Ju-Jitsu was just slowing down the process.  My friend whose gym I was training at was doing private ELDOA and Myo-Fascial Stretching with Deane and invited me to join him.  It's a work-out!  In the beginning it was difficult to do but each time I performed the exercises I got better and stronger in each position.  It is making a positive difference to my body especially my posture and joint pain.  This stuff really works!"