I am a sports dentist from Westborough MA.

I can Improve your HIgh School and College Athlete Clients Performance On-the-Field or On-the-Court Performance with my Performance Enhancing Mouthguards.

Go to my Website:

Barry R Portnoy DMD

Click on: For Sports and Fitness Businesses

 

If you are interested in talking to me, then please call me.

For your HS Basketball athletes once you have them in the best physical shape just before their first game then

LET ME HELP ADD TO THEIR ABILITY TO JUMP

Dental Occlusion

TMJ

Body Asymmetry - Head,Shoulder, Hips, Pelvis, Knees

Vertebral Alignment - Postural Chain, OA and AA Space

                                    Neck-Shoulder-Back-Trunk-Knee

Vertebral Alignment - Postural Chain, OA and AA Space

Muscle Recruitment
Cranio-Mandibular-Cervical Relationship as it relates to           Posterior Rotation of the Cranium and Forward Head Posture  

 

PUT IN SLIDE PRESENTATION OF FHP LECTURE 

WHY IS FHP (FORWARD HEAD POSTURE) DETRIMENTAL TO AN ATHLETE's PERFORMANCE?
 

       BECAUSE IT CREATES AND IMBALANCE FROM HIS 

         OTIC PLANE, ORBITAL PLANE, MANDIBULAR PLANE,

         CLAVICLE PLANE, RIB CAGE PLANE, PRLVIC PLANE,

          KNEE PLANE 

          YOU SEE ROUNDED SHOULDERS, HEAD TILT,  

          SHOULDER TILT, HIP TILT, KNEE TILT

 

       YOUR BODY ACCOMMADATES FOR BUT CAN PERFORM

          BETTER WITH BETTER POSTURAL ALIGNMENT

 

       YOUR BODY IS WORKING HARDER BECAUSE IT IS LIKE

         HAVING A PEBBLE IN YOUR SHOE WALKING AND THEN  

         YOU TRY TO RUN (IT STARTSBTOBGET MUCH HARDER

          LET ALONE IMPOSSIBLE)

 

 

See postural respiration institute dr Paul coffin great explanation

 

POSTURAL RESTORATION INSTITUTE IS A UNIQUE TYPE OF PHYSICAL THERAPY LOOKING AT THE BODY's SKELETAL POSTURAL POSITION AND THE POTENTIAL MUSCULAR IMBALANCES THAT CAUSES DYSFUNCTION.

 

IF THERE ARE POSTURAL CHAIN MALALIGNMENTS THERE IS DYSFUNCTION

WHEN PROPERLY POSITIONED, ALIGNED AND BALANCED THE SKELETAL POSTURAL CHAIN JOINTS AND MUSCLE CAN WORK IN AN EFFICIENT MANNER.

 

WHEN THE HEAD, NECK, SHOULDERS, BACK, HIPS KNEES, AND FEET ARE ALIGNED, FUNCTIONING PROPERLY THAT IS YOUR NEUTRAL

 

ALSO INVOLVED ARE THEBDIAPHRAM, RIB CAGE, PELVIC MUSCLES. FOOT, TOOTH CONTACT, 

 

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I was 1 of approximately 75 dentists to take part in the Academy For Sports Dentistry - United State Olympic Committee Partnership in 2013 to be trained

for the ASD-USOC DVP Program.  One of the goals were to educate these dentist to see whether you could Improve (Enhance) an Athletes Performance with Mouthguards/Mouthpieces.

Bill Moreau the Director of USOC at that time was a Chiropractor.

Chiropractors believe there is a strong correlation between Vertebral Alignment, Muscle Recruitment, Airway Dynamics and Athletic Performance.

 

 

 

 

The ASD USOC USOPC Partnership 

google ASD USOC 2013

 

now in 2021 the ASD continues to build a strong parternership with USOPC the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee 

 

The USOPC serves as both the National Olympic Committee and the National Paralympic Committee for the United States.

They are responsible for fielding US Teams for the Olympic, Paralympic, Youth Olympic, Pan American and

Parapan American Games

Dr P to comment on this article in ASD Newletter Summer 2021.

tell story of NE medical center work with MD patients for better head and stability. Dr Mehta Head of Tufts Gelb Craniofascial Pain Center made Mouthpieces at different VDO to strengthen their Cervical muscles. Therebresults indicated that by opening up their vertical they were able to improve their Cervical Muscular Strength

Dr Metha in Boston in 2013 talked about how changing the head and neck posture of an athlete their studies show that   a better skeletal alignment leads to better cervical muscle Recruitment 

All I am saying is wrt USOPC athletes if we can provide them with mouth devices at a proper VDO in a AP Lateral Neutral Position maybe we can give them better muscle recruitment, better airway space dynamics to result in better performance enhancement as a USOPC competing athlete.

Maybe USOC Wheelchair athletes would benefit utilizing mouthpieces and Mouthguards that focus on the type of VDO that Metha talked about to enhance their performance by improving their VDO as it realates to their head and neck alignment 

 

 

 

 

there is an organization PRI a group of physical therapist who work with NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL teams.

 

Call Boston Sports Medicine to see if after their athletes return to play whether they recommend dental mouthpieces or Mouthguards to help with their vertebral alignment especially as it relates to FHP as well as OA and AA positioning. 
It says you deal with high level sports rehabilitation 

do you recommend dental mouthpieces and Mouthguards that are geared to realign cervical vertebra vs FHP 

do you utilize dental appliance that focus on the occipital occlusal cervical spine relationship to put the athlete in a PRP.

look up Boston Spirts medicine

postural restoration institute dr paul coffin

hadvgoodvexpkanation of PRI

 

They recommend utilizing a MOOO appliance for their athletes who have issues with their head and neck alignment .  Their device is call a Mandibular Occipital Occlusal Orthotic dental splint. By their definition 

 

This might be able to benefit a Paralympic athletes performance by using their principals of putting the head and neck in what they refer to as a neutral postion.

 

PRI Believes the position of your occlusion your bite is so contributing factor to your ability to maintain a proper resting position (Neutrality) for better alignment for your head and neck and c spine.

 

Maybe we can enhance their performance incorporating their principles into a mouthguard to add protection as well.

 

 

This particular partnership jiggled my memory about a symposium in 2009 at the Yankee Dental Congress in Boston on performance enhancing athletes with different types of mouth devices. In attendance was PPM, UA, Dr Gerard Maher, Brain-Pad. The moderator Nathan Birnbaum invited Dr Nosha Metha who was the Head of the Harold Gelb Craniofacial Pain Center at Tufts to start the Symposium off. Dr Metha talked about people with disabilities who had MS. What he said if I can remember it clearly the following. It was something thebTufts New England Medical Center Neurology Department as Dr Metha to participate in.

Story Metha Told that day I think can relate to Paralympic Athletes to enhance their performance.

I hope that I recollect it right.

here goes

 

 

 

 

just throwing this thought out there to chew on