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🗓️ 5 August 2024
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Sonya McVay is a movement therapist and the woman behind The Six. We discuss childhood trauma, her journey into pilates, trauma release, woking with Formula 1 Drivers, performance vs pain, injury rehabilitation, manual therapy in the first responder communites and so much more.
Sonya McVay-Straub, MP, is a certified ART (Active Release Techniques), NKT (NeuroKinetic Therapy), AiM (Anatomy in Motion), PMT (Performance Movement Taping by RockTape), KABUKI integrated Power Lifting, and ICT (Integrated Cranial Therapy) provider. She is also a certified master Pilates Instructor and a PMA (Pilates Method Alliance) and NKT credentialing author and continuing education provider. ART is a clinical soft tissue therapy system used to treat pathologies and/or movement restriction with muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves.
Alongside manual therapy, she specializes in Neuro-Gate, functional/movement assessment, sports injuries, spinal pathologies, "special-populations" and post-treatment exercise. Her practice combines multiple methods and provides incredible results.
Her clients include internationally competitive athletes (Ferrari's Racing team), professional baseball players, both pro golfers and tennis players, triathletes, cyclists, PTSD patients, competitive marathoners, UFC fighters, IronMan/ToughMudder and Spartan athletes, avid and competitive CrossFitters, Olympic lifters, business executives, chronic pain patients, senior citizens, and youth. Sonya has personally treated hundreds of First Responders and Military Personnel over the last ten years. It is her life’s mission to demand NFL quality health care to these populations.
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0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Transcend, a veteran-owned and operated performance optimization company |
0:05.9 | that I introduced recently as a sponsor on this show. |
0:09.5 | Well, since then, I have actually been using my products, and I have had incredible success. |
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0:20.6 | So I began taking DHEA, BPC 157 for inflammation |
0:25.3 | based on the fact that I've been a stuntman, a martial artist and a firefighter in my whole life, |
0:29.9 | lots of aches and pains, dihexa to help cognition after multiple punches to the head and shift work |
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