Playing sports can often leave you feeling stiff and sore, the reason being that your muscles and tissues have not received enough oxygen and not cleared all the waste products after all the excursion you have put them through, this is referred to as delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and is the pain and stiffness you feel in your muscles in the hours to days following unaccustomed or strenuous exercise.

The soreness is perceived as a dull, aching pain in the affected muscle, often combined with tenderness and stiffness. The pain is typically felt only when the muscle is stretched, contracted or put under pressure, not when it is at rest. This tenderness, a characteristic symptom of DOMS, is also referred to as “muscular mechanical hyperalgesia”.

Manual therapy has already been seen to affect and ameliorate DOMS [1], so there is no other therapy better than BMS Matrix Therapy which works at the cellular level and treats the underlying causes of any musculoskeletal discomfort and symptoms of DOMS, BMS Matrix Therapy has been proven over the last 50 years by elite athletes to alleviate the pain and stiffness associated with DOMS, hence the reason why it is used today by many elite professional athletes as part of their pre and post event regimes.

This not only enables them to perform at their very best it also reduces the risk of injury, improves flexibility, increases endurance & stamina, and removes the discomfort and symptoms of DOMS.

How do we know this? BMS Matrix Therapy is one of the German speaking worlds best kept secrets, developed in total secrecy in the former DDR (East Germany) in the 1960’s and then further developed by Professor Nazarov, doctor to the USSR elite sports and gymnastics teams. He developed biomechanical stimulation further into a potent method of increasing athletes performance in a totally legal manner and as such his work was a closely guarded state secret for around 20 years!

If you had the competitive advantage that BMS Matrix Therapy can give you, would you share that advantage with your competitors? Exactly, the answer is a resounding NO, hence it’s still one of the best kept secrets in sports medicine today!

Today we have a better understanding of how these mechanisms work thanks to the work of Biermann, Nazarov & Hofmann, and how we can exploit BMS Matrix Therapy to fully unlock our true potential.

The principles of Biomechanical Stimulation according to Prof. Dr habil V. Nazarov

The muscles are not only the motors that drive our outwardly visible movements, they are also responsible for internal movements within the body. Muscle power moves fluids around the body. Vessels both within and outside the muscles are squeezed through a process of mechanical deformation. When the muscles relax again these vessels regain their previous shape, creating a sort of vacuum that sucks in new the new oxygenated blood.

The most well known venous valves are found in the large leg veins that run outside the muscles. Backflow valve-like structures are also found however, in all venous sections of the blood vessels within the muscles – even inside capillaries.

These ensure that the flow of blood comes mainly from the nutrient and oxygen-rich side; approx. 70-80% of the body’s blood is to be found in the venous backflow. In 1974 it became possible to explain the purpose of the already well known permanent microvibrations of the muscles (physiological tremor). The primary supply of nutrients and oxygen is only made possible by these rhythmic microvibrations of frequency and amplitude within the muscles.

It has been proven that the heart itself is at least twenty-five times too weak to force the blood through the huge network of fine capillaries (which run to a total length of approx. 100,000 km). This provides an excellent explanation for the rise in blood pressure evident in people with a passive lifestyle. Older, passive, bedridden, paralysed people confined to wheelchairs therefore often have high blood pressure. Bio-Mechanical Stimulation Matrix Therapy can also be used to regulate this malady, one of the most widespread diseases of modern society!

The consequences of increasing longitudinal vibration using Bio-Mechanical Stimulation Matrix Therapy, include an increased pump function of the muscles, which in turn means an improvement in the supply of nutrients and oxygen to the cells.

All organs that are directly connected to the circulatory system of a stimulated muscle also benefit from the improvement in blood circulation. This means that even passive organs can be targeted by this treatment. Over time, regular stimulation also has the effect of forming a more dense network of capillaries causing blood pressure to be distributed more evenly throughout the tissues leading to greater flexibility, reduced risk of injury, increased endurance & stamina, and removes the discomfort and symptoms of DOMS.

“The principles of Biomechanical Stimulation” excerpt from the Series of interviews with Prof V. Nazarov  “Facts about Biomechanical Stimulation” first published in the health tribune 2007, written by Ulrich Hänsenberger