Jarod,

I saw that the ASD-USOPC Partnership is continuing.

After attending the ASD Symposium I was wondering if when your group is asked to go to make mouthguards for the Team USA athletes at their training sites whether or not you are or are trying to equilibrate the athletes to a Neuromuscular Position as was presented in these Symposium Lectures 

My interest would be to heplpequilibrate them especially if you aren't including it for these elite athletes.

I am pretty sure you don't need me as you probably have others that can do this with better precision than me.
 

I do this by trial and error.  
 

It is not 100% predictable but I'm good at it.

I taught myself how to do this because I have a  J5 Low Frequency TENS for my difficult TMJ cases.

What I did was TENS approximately 40 athletes to get an idea of this position or sweet spot as it is called which you can get only after you TENS them for about an hour. In this lecture Today Dr Raj mentioned with J5 alone you are about 75% successful however with K7 you are 100% successful.  Of course the downside is you need to spend 3 hours in a dental chair then send to a lab to make mouthguard and that is a lot of time and expense to say the least Qi

i got a feeling for where there Condyle was in relation to Glenoid Fossa which basically is a Gelb 4/7 position 

Normally to get this sweet spot you need to use the J5 Low Frequency first for about an hour followed by the K-7 EMG Tracker to get the correct position VDO necessary to get these results on a consistent basis.

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I am basically retired at 75yo but still as a hobby work a few days a week and am still on the faculty teaching at the AEGD Residency program at UMASS/Memorial Hospital Queen Street Campus in Worcester MA
 

 As Bill Moreau said to us in that lecture in 2013 if I can recollect it correctly  

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If you have disfunction in the head and neck it will show up elsewhere in the body. It can diminishes the Athlete's performance.

Moreau believed that mouthpiece could performance enhance 

It's easy to do if I put the athletes on my J5 Tens for an hour to get the correct position but it is too time consuming just to give someone a PLMG.

I have a J-5 Low frequency Tens in my office for my hard to do TMJ Vertical Dimension cases, it is too time consuming to use for mouthguards to get an ideal VDO.

I am not sure why I have this uncanny ability do this without having to remake a lot of mouthguards especially if I miss the mark, but if I miss the mark I have to make another mouthguard 

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