Wellness
You can enhance your quality of life by modifying your behaviors, eating habits, and exercise routine. At the Superior Performance Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Dr. Serge PierreCharles — a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Specialist & Pain and Sports Medicine Doctor located in Minneapolis, MN — and his team can design a unique exercise and fitness program tailored to your personal needs. With their vast clinical experience and passion for helping patients, Dr. Pierrecharles’s team helps you live life to the fullest. Call or click to schedule an appointment today as your first step towards achieving overall wellness.
Frequently asked questions.
Wellness means attaining your maximum potential so that you can live a healthier, happier, and more successful life. It’s not just the absence of illness or disease: Wellness involves improving your lifestyle to achieve physical and mental well-being.
Wellness promotes healthy behaviors and reduces your risk of incurring chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and psychiatric disorders. Not only does it support physical well-being, but it increases your mental and emotional well-being.
The practice team at Superior Performance Center integrates many treatment forms for wellness, including:
- Acupuncture
- Cupping
- Myofascial release
- AMG
These alternative medicine treatments help relieve chronic pain and muscle tension and promote a feeling of well-being.
Acupuncture is one of the most popular forms of alternative medicine and has been used for centuries to treat both chronic and acute pain and illnesses. Recently, it has been increasingly used in sports medicine to treat various musculoskeletal injuries.
The acupuncturist from the team at Superior Performance Center identifies specific pain points on the body and gently inserts thin, disposable sterile needles at these strategic points. This aids in the normal flow of energy through the body, restoring your body’s balance, and thus preventing muscle injuries.
Cupping is a form of alternative medicine in which small cups are placed on your skin in areas that need healing. This creates a vacuum and brings blood closer to the surface of your skin, promoting blood flow, draining toxins, and releasing tension. It’s used both in promoting wellness as well as the treatment of musculoskeletal injuries.
Myofascial release is the technique of massaging muscles and tendons with the help of a foam roller or roller massager. It has become increasingly popular among athletes for promoting wellness or treating chronic musculoskeletal pain. It can be done at home or by trainers and physical therapists.
It’s effective in increasing the range of motion and decreasing soreness and fatigue following exercise.
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Strength and Conditioning
Improve your fitness and performance. Superior Performance Center offers certified strength and conditioning specialists to coach athletes of all levels. Strength and conditioning can be utilized for weight management, injury prevention, or performance enhancement. Bring us your goals, and we will design a program specifically designed to meet your needs. Superior Performance Center wants to take you to the next level.
What is strength and conditioning?
The English Institute of Sport defines strength and conditioning as “the physical and physiological development of athletes for elite sports performance.” Strength and conditioning incorporate the body’s entire movement—core stability, strength, plyometrics, endurance, speed, and agility. This comprehensive movement mindset is why participation in a proper strength and conditioning program enhances performance and provides necessary injury-prevention exercises.
Can strength and conditioning be sport specific?
YES! The exercise prescriptions that are assigned during each individually tailored strength and conditioning session can be sport specific or focus on overall body maintenance depending on the goals of each athlete. Strength and conditioning programs can also focus on proper sport mechanics. Our certified strength and conditioning specialists can design programs that fit specific needs and requests of athletes, teams, and coaches.
Regenerative Medicine
Regenerative medicine is the process by which living, normal-functioning tissue is created in a laboratory to replace tissues in your body that are lost due to trauma, disease, or aging. It’s specifically helpful for treating orthopedic injuries that can’t regenerate normally.
You know that healing can be extremely slow if you’ve suffered an injury involving tendons, ligaments, or cartilage. To bring about rapid healing, you need to undergo specific treatments to boost the process. See Dr. Serge Pierrecharles and his team at the Superior Performance Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. His team is well-versed in various regenerative medicine techniques and can help you to recover quickly.
Stem cell therapy is primarily used in the treatment of orthopedic conditions. It’s used in the treatment of tendons, ligaments, muscles, and cartilage.
The stem cells are sourced from amniotic fluid, cord blood, bone marrow, blood, or adipose tissue. After sourcing the stem cells, your Superior Performance provider can then administer the cells where needed.
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is a popular form of regenerative therapy increasingly used as the non-steroid alternative to improving tissue healing and rehabilitation. The team at the Superior Performance Center collects blood samples and separates the platelets by centrifuge.
Your Superior Performance provider collects the PRP and delivers it to the precise injury site, sometimes under ultrasound guidance, to promote healing and tissue regeneration. The platelets release growth factors that stimulate cell repair. PRP effectively treats conditions like tennis elbow, Achilles tendonitis, patellar tendonitis, and plantar fasciitis.
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