About Us

MUSCLE FIX MOBILE is a 4 phase process of healing

REJUVENATE, RESTORE, RECOVERY

Each Treatment session includes

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Cupping Therapy

Deep Tissue FAKTR Scraping

Sports Massage with Massage Guns

STRETCHING

What Does Cupping Therapy Do?

Cupping therapy is a thousands of year’s old practice that involves placing a glass cup on a patient’s body and utilizing a small flame to burn out oxygen to creation a vacuum / suction effect. This effect massively increases blood flow to the area of the body temporarily.

• Cupping aims for the deep tissues by generating suction, elevating the skin over the muscles. This action causes the blood vessels and fascia/ soft tissue to expand, resulting in faster blood perfusion to the different parts of the body. The blood brings with them the necessary oxygen and nutrients needed to heal damaged tissues caused by injuries.

• As a result, blood now can get released to those parts of the body where it is needed the most.

• This will then result in the normal distribution of nutrients, oxygen and vitamins throughout the body.

• When tensed muscles get relaxed because of enhanced blood flow, you will feel relief from anxiety and stress.

What is Deep Tissue Scraping (FAKTR)?

Functional and Kinetic Treatment with Rehabilitation or “FAKTR” is a revolutionary technique that will not only accelerate your rehabilitation and recovery but you’ll be able to continue working, running, lifting, swimming, training while quickly healing.

This technique was designed for and by a US Olympic power lifter Dr. Tom Hyde.

• It is a form of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization that enables clinicians to effectively and efficiently address soft tissue problems and fascial restrictions (scar tissue). A specialized form of massage/rubbing of the skin to eliminate tight bound down muscles’ culminating in improved patient result.

• It is specially designed surgical grade stainless steel instruments with unique treatment edges and angles to deliver an effective means of manual therapy (massage). The use of FAKTR instruments, when combined with appropriate therapeutic exercise, leads to the restoration of pain-free movement, function and training.

• Treatment is administered WHILE YOU TRAIN – improvement to your condition is felt almost immediately.

What can Deep Tissue Scraping (FAKTR) Treat?

• Ankle and foot Pain: Achilles Tendinitis, plantar fasciitis
• Tennis Elbow Lateral Epicondylitis, Golfers elbow/Pitchers’ elbow
• Back Pain: Stenosis, Sprain/Strain, herniated discs, bulging discs
• Knee Pain: Patellofemoral Disorders, ACL injuries, meniscus tear
• Shoulder Pain: Rotator Cuff Tendinitis, Labral tears
• Scar Tissue, Adhesions, kinks in the body, tight restricted muscles

Q&A

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What are some of the ways you do that and which one has been the most effective for you and your clients?

Typically, someone will experience pain when they are actually performing some motion, whether it is basic movement to do their daily tasks or actual exercise. What I will do is have the client perform the motion that pains them, and I will treat the muscle as it is being stressed with cupping and deep tissue scrapping. This allows me to get at the muscle in its distressed state and more effectively treat it. In real time, the person will begin to feel pain relief. For example, while someone is performing a squatting motion, I may have cups on the lower back, hamstrings and quads while scrapping the specific areas that that the person is feeling pain or tightness. Therefore, a lot of times, the best clinic environment is the person’s gym or home or wherever they are active.
I also use several other methods, including electrotherapy (I have a portable unit!), drying needling, cold laser cellular treatment and a massage gun to loosen and relax muscles, making them more pliable and easier to work on. I also use different essential oils to get into knots and scar tissue and help break it up.
In short, given the individual client’s life circumstance, e.g. reason for pain / type of injury, level of training, career (intense manual labor, sedentary and everything in between) I customize a program that is best suited to them. I will say this, torn rotator cuffs and meniscus tears come up often. This usually comes from manual labor jobs, playing sports earlier in life, or any other activity which causes constant, repetitive motions for your shoulder and knees.

The cupping method is something that is very interesting and incredibly odd looking. What exactly does it do and how long do the marks last after you have it done?

After the cup is placed on the skin, the oxygen is removed creating a suction / vacuum effect. This used to be done by lighting a small fire to eat up the oxygen (also known as fire cupping) but instead I use a tool to achieve that effect. The pressure breaks the little blood vessels under the surface. Those broken blood vessels release tiny spots of blood called petechiae. A collection of these blood spots forms a larger dark spot, which is basically a bruise. The bruise will change color over time.
There is also greatly increased blood flow to the area and dead, stagnate tissue is sucked up. The muscles are also greatly loosened in the area. That is how the healing happens. The darker the mark is indicative of how the stagnation is. A healthy body with good blood circulation will have very light marks. I’ve noticed the more mentally or physically stressed the person is, the dark the marks. For example, a dear friend and very successful real estate agent had incredibly dark marks on his back. Poor guy is super stressed due to the nature of his job. He felt great after treatment though, slept like a baby that night. He gets regular tune-up / maintenance treatment from me.

The positive effects of cupping can be felt immediately, and most people only required 15- 30 minutes of treatment. The marks will last about a week.

How does your background help your clients with their longevity?

I often leverage my medical background to diagnose client’s health issues. I’ve treated patients suffering from torn rotator cuffs, torn meniscus, scoliosis (loosened muscles take pressure off the spine), and a slew of other complicated medical conditions.

I always preach maintenance and tune-ups so a person can prevent a catastrophic failure in the body such as torn muscles and tendons. This is a particularly critical age. Our bodies are continuously subject to wear and tear, so being proactive in one’s health is crucial.

How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way you have done your practice, besides the extensive cleanliness?

COVID has definitely pushed my service to the forefront as a viable option for many who are anxious about going into a doctor’s office these days. That distaste of going into an office, with potentially other infected people, has definitely created a demand for at home treatment. I fully sterilize all my tools before and after a treatment. I always wear a mask and gloves and I get tested weekly for COVID. A lot of people appreciate getting treated in the comfort of their home.

Meet The Team

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Dr Nick

Our Story

Muscle Fix Mobile was founded in early 2019 by Dr. Nick Kuzmanovski and Gregory Barton. Dr. Nick, tired of performing standard, run-of-the-mill PT work was inspired by a gift, a cupping set, purchased by his wife, to go down the rabbit hole of alternative medicine.

As fate would have it, Dr. Nick had also obtained a Functional and Kinetic Treatment with Rehab (FAKTR) certification around the same time. FAKTR (aka the Graston Technique) involves using “Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization” (IASTM) tools to break up scar tissue and knots in the muscle, via a deep tissue massage. This is really just a modern, western take on Gua Sha, which is the ancient Chinese method of using various natural tools to scrap the skin to achieve the same effect.

In a stroke of pure genius, Dr. Nick discovered that these two modalities, Cupping and Deep Tissue Scraping, go together like peanut butter and jelly. They both greatly complement each other and the effect is truly amazing, as experienced by our clients and backed up by extensive peer-reviewed studies.

We did some research and found there are many, many credible studies verifying the science of how it works. Basically, it is a reverse massage that vacuums dead, stagnant tissue in your body, pulling it up so it can be filtered out via your immune system. Kind of like how you run a vacuum across the bottom of a dirty swimming pool to clean it, pulling up gunk and allowing the filtration system to remove it. It also increased blood flow to the area, which promotes healing

The Idea is Simple really – instead of relying on stuffy, crowded clinics, we come directly to you! That said, in time we did create a few fixed locations for individuals who prefer it, however, overwhelmingly, people love the convenience of our service.

Our goal, our core value is to bring this highly effectively, purely holistic treatment to all those who could benefit from it!