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The Movement Doctor

Kirk Albert is a performance coach with 36 years of experience helping elite athletes, top Hollywood performers, and high-stakes executives.

Don’t confuse fitness/rehab with wellness/ performance!!! We are all uniquely built!!! “Why do you want to leave a great job after 26 years of practice and start all over?”

This was a question posed to me recently by a colleague of mine. Simply stated I’m not starting over; I’m finally practicing new knowledge that was not available 20 years ago. When I practiced physical therapy, I noticed the same people on my schedule returning with the same problems. I know now it was partly because the traditional protocols I was following treated the symptom and not the actual dysfunction. Witnessing my clients’ recurring problems, coupled with the out-of-control nutritional system, was very frustrating to me. I quite frankly got fed up!!! I believe our families deserve much more from our current healthcare system! So as my parents always said, “You want to see change in your life...well, it all starts with you!!”

This is how Muscle Recovery Center (MRC) was birthed!!! MRC created a system that truly practices preventative care for everyone utilizing Applied Functional Science (assessing dysfunction through movement) coupled with a soft tissue recovery system (purification of soft tissues through nutrition and fascial loading techniques). The MRC system is designed to restore all connective tissues to their normal hydration and tensional length, which restores symmetry (posture) and eliminates compensatory movement patterns (limping would be an example of this). This enables the body to reset itself and recover its normal function. When the body becomes efficient and symmetrical, pain and dysfunction absolve themselves. This is why myself and others practicing Applied Functional Science Techniques can not only get results in a short period of time, but can actually fix the problem or dysfunction. MRC techniques ultimately prevent surgeries, injections, and medications that have become all too common place in our society!!! The Muscle Recovery Center grounds itself in proven facts of the healing process; it uses real food and the earth’s gravity to stimulate the body’s natural healing abilities and to promote a non-surgical, non-medicated recovery. I look forward to helping all of you achieve a healthy and pain-free life at the Muscle Recovery Center! THIS IS MY VISION!!!!! Kirk L Albert
PTA, CSCS, CMT, FAFS

12/09/2025

It’s Broth Time

11/04/2025

Why is calcaneal eversion the most important motion in your body?

10/29/2025

Students, how important is the foot and restoring it's mobility???
“Fascia: The Tensional Network of the Human Body”pg. 305, ”Stimulation of the intrinsic muscles (of the feet), improves contact with the ground and introduces movement in the frontal plane by restoring the interplay between the cuboid and navicular bones. This enhances the ability of the feet, with the eyes, inner ear, and TMJ to maintain dynamic equilibrium.” Remember, there are 33 joints, 26 bones, and 24 muscles in the feet. We must possess the 4 big rocks of foot action, calcaneal eversion, ankle dorsiflexion, tibial internal rotation, and forefoot abduction to properly load our myofascial system. All important in these reactions is to allow motion in the transverse axis of the foot which prompts frontal plane motion throughout the body, especially in the Big Movement Rocks of the foot/ankle complex, hips, and thoracic spine.

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11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving

01/11/2024

Eli Stowers!!! Had the opportunity to help an incredible young man today, Eli comes to me with some past surgeries and mobility issues that we were able to solve!!🏈💪🏻 Definitely look out for this young man on Sundays for sure!!!! God has a plan for each one of us!!! Future is bright!!!!

09/08/2023

What a game! The Lions are the real deal. Both quarterbacks benefiting from Applied Functional Science at the Gray Institute. Proud to be apart of such an amazing community and share a little bit with our community.

07/03/2022

05/16/2022

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3149 Turkey Creek Trail
Glendale, CA
75078

Website

http://musclerecoverycenter.com/

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