1) Q. Your work has been featured in hundreds of news stories across the country during the past 30 plus years ... what was your favorite?
A. I actually have two favorites: a television piece about how obstetricians were using muscle-building equipment to treat musculoskeletal complications experienced during the pregnancy year (CBS National News, 1989), and a magazine article about how
physiatrists and gerontologists were using the same type of equipment to treat the gross physical weakness experienced by most nursing home residents (Modern Health Care, 1998).
2) Q. When you design a muscle-building program, what is the most important component?
A. That’s easy ... safety. Whether I am working with a woman during pregnancy or an injured athlete, a frail nursing home resident or an injured worker, a person trying to gain twenty pounds of muscle or an individual trying to lose twenty pounds of fat ... safety is always my first consideration. Interestingly, focusing on safety does not limit results.
In fact, the opposite is true. Safety and the physiological laws that govern the muscle-building process operate in complete harmony – lifting and lowering the resistance in a slow, controlled manner, maintaining sound biomechanical patterns of movement and postural support, and aligning effort with the principles of stimulus, recovery, and growth actually increases the probability of success.
3) Q. Is it true that you taught more doctors and therapists how to use muscle-building equipment than anyone else?
A. If it is true, I am unaware of that fact. However, I feel it’s safe to say that I have personally introduced and/or explained the related concepts and/or provided on-site training to a more diverse group of medical professionals than anyone that I have ever met. I have worked with thousands of orthopedic surgeons, physiatrists, obstetricians, gynecologists, neurologists, sports and occupational medicine physicians, oncologists, gerontologists, podiatrists, chiropractors, physical and occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, exercise physiologists, athletic trainers & nurse midwives. If I left out any group, I apologize.
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