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Meet Loretta McGrath of Body Alignment For Life in El Segundo

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Loretta McGrath.

Loretta, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I’ve been a fitness professional since 1989. I have studied range of motion (ROM) and body movement for over 15 years. I’ve developed two patented programs, Body Alignment For Life ( a self (ROM) evaluation) and the Dynamic Body Stretching System (an assisted (ROM) evaluation) I invented the software when I realized that many of my personal training clients had limited range of motion, joint stiffness and weak areas that could be significantly helped by regular specialized stretch/resistance sessions. I also created the programs so other personal trainers could understand how to prevent injuries based on a client’s physical imbalances.

Having had major spine and shoulder issues for many years, I had to find a way that I could achieve a pain-free body that I only dreamt about. Knowing the cause of all the pain is key, and can save you money on medical bills, many miserable days on pain-killers and days in the hospital. These cloud-based programs allow you, your trainer, and your doctor to see a rendering of what is going on inside. You will be able to see how the body is compensating for old injuries and see where new ones are manifesting. After entering your information, the program generates a corrective program tailored to you and your physical needs to ensure an injury free body

Two programs:

The BALF software is a hands-on (ROM) self-evaluate program with guided instructional videos, then the software generates an individual corrective program that consists of an individualized video series tailored to you and your muscle imbalances. (BAFL software is mainly used for an individual user or a corporate setting.)

The DBS software is an assisted (ROM) evaluation applied to the individual by a trained professional called a DBS Specialist. Then the stretch therapist applies the individualized corrective program to you while you lay back and enjoy. The choice is up to you! (DBS software was designed to be utilized in conjunction with health and wellness centers, chiropractic, medical facilities, high-risk employees and workman’s comp claims.)

I am determined to be proactive in assisting people in overcoming their physical imbalances. I conferred with orthopedic surgeons, chiropractors, physical therapists, body workers, massage therapists, and sports trainers to create a comprehensive, proprietary computer program for my BALF and DBS programs.

Since the program’s development, I have been fortunate enough to see my systems dramatically change the lives of countless people, from the elderly to athletes. Today, there are numerous certified DBS Specialists using my techniques to make fitness fun, easy and accessible to all. I’m so proud to be a part of the health and wellness community and I look forward to being a part of your journey to a healthier and more active, youthful life!

We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
No, I have had a few individuals try and steal my idea and even 1 person held my website for ransom. Having no financial backing has been very hard for me, as it took me much longer to finish the software, now I am looking for investors so I can market to the masses.

So, as you know, we’re impressed with Body Alignment For Life LLC. – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
The Full Body Range of Motion (ROM) Assessment.” For the last 15 years, I studied range of motion and body movement. I was able to come up with a (ROM) grading system for each range of motion in the body. Before this point, there was no real way to predict injuries or accurately prevent them until now. By collecting this data it allows the software to be utilized in many different ways and for many different things, to name a few….

· Preventing repetitive stress injuries on the job and detecting possible future
injuries in a particular movement, in a sport, or daily activities.

·Allowing an individual to understand what areas are causing physical pain and
provides them a plan of action on how to correct the imbalances to prevent more
pain and or future injuries.

· Now employers will have a detailed physical baseline employees, also a fast and accurate plan to implement as soon as possible to correct any imbalances.

· It allows for detection of physical ability or lack of capability with in a particular
movement.

· Collecting data on each department and or teams to distinguish the level of
physical health for each department and what muscle imbalances are most common within a particular job description.

·Collecting complete and accurate data on each department to help create and
apply the most accurate corrective plan to that specific group.

· Collect data to apply the most accurate corrective/preventive action plans to reduce risk and costs of injury as soon as possible.

· Create post injury recovery programs and progression analysis of Workman’s
Compensation claims.

· Creates a baseline of physical health for an individual and gives reports on measured results to see progression of physical health monthly or quarterly of each individual.

· It allows a client, patient, employee, athlete or individual to understand where
their physical health is currently so they can make sound decisions on their
physical health goals.

· It allows a personal trainer the common knowledge on how to train each client to prevent injury and also what kind of workout an individual should or should not do rather than guessing the physical health of each client.

· It supplies the personal trainer and PT additional therapy options to offer to their existing clients or patients.

· It provides a Doctor knowledge on the physical health of each patient, which allows the doctor to offer added therapy to help support the health of that patient (i.e.: Hand-held programs, applied assisted stretching corrective plan or individual subscriptions to BAFL to help guided in-home corrective therapy programs, etc.)

· The DBS System is an assisted stretching program, which has the ability to have the Doctor create an individual program for each of their patients on-line, this Doctors Recommendation Program is then applied to the patient by the DBS Specialist. With the online Doctor guided programs this type of therapy can be applied and billed on or off site. This allows many more opportunities to have billable programs also have more passive income opportunities.

· The BAFL software program can complement with sport specific repetitive motion and injury prevention. Every sport has a dominate repetitive motion, either it be sprinting forward, moving side to side, swinging explosively to one side, or jumping as high as you can swinging one arm down. By knowing the repetitive motion of an individual sports BAFL can see what physical “risk zone” that repetitive motion is currently in, (low, med, or high risk) knowing what imbalances are in the specific repetitive motion and applying a balancing program in that particular area or areas prevents injuries from happening. By keeping the repetitive motion areas strong and balanced no stress will be on the joint or joints. This means that individual movement will have longevity in that motion, thus longevity in that sport.

So, what’s next? Any big plans?
I am doing a campaign on www.StartEngine.com starting in 2 weeks to raise 100,000 so I can finish debugging, advertise and create an app.

I am hoping to get help from wonderful people like VoyageLA Magazine to get it out there so people know this is available and a great way to help prevent injury and to also help people who are already in pain to get out of pain!

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