Author: Terry Kern

I apologize for my tardiness in getting out another newsletter on my website. It has been difficult to keep up with my New Years resolution of writing an article once a month because I am also writing manuals for my on-line courses teaching Myomemory Advantage Transformation (M.A.T.). Before getting into M.A.T.’S Spiral neuromyofascial pattern, let…

In my last newsletter I described the side linear neuromyofascial pattern, one of the four neuromyofascial patterns I have identified in Myomemory Transformation Advantage (M.A.T.), an integrated, general systems, and functional approach to evaluating human posture and movement I utilize at my clinic. This approach was developed from my education and experiences as a physical…

Many people ask me, “What do you call what you do?” In short, Myomemory Transformation Advantage or simply M.A.T. It is an integrated, general systems, and functional approach to evaluating human posture and movement developed by me from over forty years of a clinical physical therapy practice treating acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain and over…

To continue my discussion of Myomemory Advantage Transformation (M.A.T.) from the last article, it is an integrated, general systems, and functional approach to evaluating posture and movement developed by me from over forty years of a clinical physical therapy practice and over twenty-five years participating in the sport of the nordic ski jumping. Simply, it…

In the world of posture and movement which I have worked for over forty years, most people do not understand that our brains are hardwired with reflex activity establishing a foundation for skeletal balance and equilibrium that unlocks the potential for a variety of complex and skilled postures and movements to be acquired and developed.…

The most frequent question I get asked today is, “What kind of therapy do I do at my clinic?” The answer I give now is that I specialize in musculoskeletal pain and inflammation by treating the body’s fascial and neuromuscular systems. The system I use is simply called, M.A.T., an acronym for “Myomemory Advantage Transformation.”…

From my last newsletter, I finished with the statement that posture is an elaboration, a process, a configuration of your body’s structure in the environment of gravity and ground reaction force (GRF) in space. The “holding pattern” from which all your movement occurs. It can’t be stressed enough that all posture and movement begins in…

Before getting into the neuromyofascial patterning that has been my focus over the last several newsletter articles, I felt it was important to talk about posture. Since the start of this pandemic several years ago, a lot of changes have affected our lifestyle in so many ways. One thing I have observed with the people…

In this newsletter article, I want to put it all together. With the past several newsletters, I have discussed the organization of the brain and the neuromuscular patterning involving stability and mobility of the human, skeletal structure. It involves the central and peripheral nervous systems and the sensory input causing the motor output that is…

In continuing our narrative of the human nervous system, no one can deny the phrase that “Motion is Life, Motion is Freedom!” That is because a prerequisite of motion is you have to have an active, living nervous system including both the peripheral (PNS) and central nervous system (CNS). In short, the position and motion…