Gebauer Company Forms Strategic Alliance with The Pressure Positive Co.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Cyndy Glynn
June 2, 2009
Gebauer Company
(800) 321-9348, x162

GEBAUER COMPANY FORMS STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH PRESSURE POSITIVE AND BATTLE CREEK TO PROMOTE THE SPRAY AND STRETCH TECHNIQUE

Cleveland, Ohio – Gebauer Company, a 110-year-old medical device manufacturer and marketer of topical anesthetic skin refrigerants, today announced the formation of a strategic alliance with Pressure Positive Company and Battle Creek Equipment Company to promote a continuing education program for the spray and stretch technique, a learned physical therapy modality.

Continuing education programs will be held across the country and will be taught by practitioners with years of experience using the spray and stretch technique in clinical settings. Course participants will learn how to assess myofacial trigger points (MTrPs) and evaluate patients based on classic signs, symptoms, and clinical characteristics. Students will learn how to incorporate the spray and stretch technique into their practices.

Those who may benefit from this program include physical therapists, myofascial trigger point therapists, massage therapists, chiropractors, dentists, and osteopaths.

Dr. Janet Travell, White House Physician to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, studied muscular-skeletal pain and wrote many articles and books detailing the use of manipulative procedures for treating myofascial pain and trigger points. Dr. Travell, in conjunction with the Gebauer Company, developed a product designed specifically for trigger point therapy that is today known as Gebauer’s Spray and Stretch® product.

The Gebauer Company manufactures topical skin refrigerants used for controlling pain associated with injections, venipuncture, minor surgical procedures, muscle spasms, sprains and strains.  Core products include Gebauer’s Spray and Stretch®, endorsed by the American Physical Therapy Association, Gebauer’s Ethyl Chloride®, and Gebauer’s Pain Ease®.

Gebauer Company has been located in the city of Cleveland, Ohio for more than 100 years, and moved to a new 58,000 square foot corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility in June of 2004. The facility includes several production suites, analytical and development laboratories, and distribution center. Gebauer Company is certified to ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and is FDA GMP compliant.

Pressure Positive, a Pennsylvania based company, develops tools for the at home self treatment of myofascial pain due to trigger points. The Backnobber, made of a woven fiberglass material, provides the support and stability required to produce the needed pressure on myofascial tissue. Battle Creek Equipment Company, of Battle Creek, Michigan, manufactures hot and cold therapy products, including moist heating pads. Moist heat is indicated in the protocol of the spray and stretch technique to re-warm tissues after therapy.

For more information regarding Gebauer Company, its products, and the spray and stretch continuing education program, visit: www.LearnSprayAndStretch.org, www.GebauersPainEase.com, and www.gebauer.com.   For more information regarding Pressure Positive products, visit www.pressurepositive.com. For more information regarding Battle Creek products, visit www.battlecreekequipment.com.

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Backnobber II Winner of Great Gear of the Year Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact: Renee Gladieux
Company Name: The Pressure Positive Company
Telephone Number: 800-603-5107
Web site address: www.pressurepositive.com

ShapeYou.com, the powerful and innovative health and fitness website,  is proud to announce that The Pressure Positive Company’s “Original Backnobber II” self care massage tool is winner of a Top Gear of the Year Award , and its “Original Orbit Massager and  Original Jacknobber II are the winners of a Great Gear of the Year Award in the Back Products category in this year’s Health & Fitness GearAwards™. ShapeYou.com’s judges are industry professionals  who represent trainers, nutritionists, health care  practitioners, coaches, athletes, health food storeowners and more.

The huge selection of sports, health and fitness products out in the  marketplace gave ShapeYou.com the idea to create and run the  GearAwards™. “We want people to easily find the best of the best that’s out there,” a company spokesperson said.  “And if it has a  GearAward™ seal on it, that just makes it simpler to find a great  product – because we’ve done the footwork already.”

ShapeYou.com congratulates The Pressure Positive Company on its award-winning products!

ShapeYou.com (www.ShapeYou.com) is the creation of fitness and  nutrition guru Tony Hale, and provides a wealth of information,  articles and resources for consumers, retailers, and manufacturers in the sports, health and fitness industries.  This year, ShapeYou.com  also launched it’s Sports, Health & Fitness Wholesale Trade Directory  where wholesale trade buyers for health food stores, sporting goods
stores and many other retail outlets can find all the wholesale  products they’re looking for in one location.

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Ergonomics Efficiency and Safety in Motion

By Bernard L. Gladieux, Jr.

Overuse injuries, although they often seem quite straight forward, can be, in fact, quite complicated in that they are often caused by a combination of factors that vary widely from person to person. So, whether you are a weekend jogger and spend your work days at a desk or a bench or you are an elite, daily training, competitive athlete, there are some ways you can safely navigate around and through the many risk factors that will threaten your continued mobility, fitness, good health and longevity in the short or the long run.

So, as you make choices about your exercise, how often, how intensely and at what activities, here are some things to think about:

Form and style:
Much athletic coaching and training concentrates on the details of movement. If you are fortunate to have been taught by a skilled and experienced athletic instructor as a young person in, say, junior high or high school, you will have learned all about how to run, how to breathe, how to pace yourself. Now, as you may be contemplating your athletic renaissance, remember all that good advice and put it to use.

If you are just now starting from scratch, find a trainer or an experienced mentor coach or friend to help you get it right.Very often a local club is a good place to start with club runs or rides among contemporaries. Keep your eyes and ears open for tips on how to move smoothly and efficiently. In running especially, economy of movement follows form and style very closely and will minimize early fatigue that will in turn help to forestall injury from inefficient form.

Frequency in balance
One of the earliest decisions you may have to make is how often you are going to challenge your body in the activity you select.Be aware that one of the most serious risks in the early stages of most quality exercise programs results from an early excess of enthusiasm. It doesn’t take long for the beginner jogger or cyclist or walker or weightlifter to start feeling the uplifting effects of physical activity. You will know it by the giddy feeling of exhilaration and invincibility that recent converts often demonstrate while in the “honeymoon phase.” It is typically a happy time, but, as rewarding as regular exercise can be, it is not without its hazards. So it pays to be aware that injury can sneak up on you. Your best defense is to listen to signals from your body and to schedule your program so that you allow an appropriate amount of time for recovery after every effort. For a normal workout that may be only a day or for something extraordinary like a marathon, it might require a month before you are back to a normal.

Learning curve:
In time you will accumulate knowledge about your own limits and what works for you and what doesn’t.Always be open to learning more – more about yourself and more about everything that bears on your well being from diet to rest, stretching to cross training. Although exercise is not like neurosurgery in its intellectual demands, it greatly benefits from a basic academic knowledge of anatomy, physiology, nutrition and any sports medicine you can absorb. These days extensive research information is widely available on the Internet.

Taking your time:
Look first at your carefully structured plan to become permanently more fit and strong in the longer term. Consider the stepping stones towards whatever goal you decide to aim for. It may simply be to remain upright and moving for the next twenty or forty years.If you are aiming for something more dramatic and shorter term, your accelerated schedule will demand more intensity as well as more discipline and caution. In terms of your daily activities, try to get in the habit of easing into your training mode of choice with deliberate restraint. One technique that you may soon discover on your own will increase your endurance significantly: Simply warm up slowly for twenty minutes to half an hour before starting any demanding activity.

Muscle balance:
Every experienced athlete knows that the exercised muscle inevitably becomes stronger, and the unexercised muscle does not. Accordingly a sport in which only a limited number of specific muscles are engaged may leave you with neglected, relatively weaker muscles.That difference between opposing muscles can easily result in an imbalance that often leads to acute muscle strains and other injuries that are entirely preventable by a regular, balanced strength training regimen. Maintaining a basic muscle balance is not difficult and does not necessarily involve an extraordinary time commitment. At the outset, however you may have to alter your habitual routine in order, for example, to begin a twice a week weight training program.

With the help of a trained exercise therapist or athletic trainer, you can create a sequence of exercises appropriately tailored to your own, specific needs and goals.

Become an adventurer; mix it up:
Once you are in the habit of training regularly, you can start experimenting with new ways to add variety to your exercise that will enhance your enjoyment. Increase your resistance to overuse related injuries and improve the efficiency of your form. This approach is often referred to as “cross training.” In concept, cross training is simplicity itself: you exercise your primary muscles and allow plenty of time between workouts to allow your muscles to recover and repair; but instead of taking a nap, you go workout at something entirely different. Of course cross trainers can wear down, become plagued by chronic fatigue, reduce their resistance to colds and other infections, but by spreading the
stress around your own, more vulnerable trouble spots, you reduce the risk that any one
will break down.

Outlook and simple pleasures:
Always keep in mind that whatever you do to attain and protect your health and fitness,
it should be something that yields you intrinsic rewards.That is pleasure from the sheer pleasure of the experience. Never let that thought go.Everything else is gravy.

In Good Health
(Bun) Bernard L. Gladieux, Jr.
President
The Pressure Positive Company