When You Are Not Bouncing Back
You are deep into a training block and something is not releasing. You are three weeks from a race with a niggle that will not settle. You came back from an injury and the movement still is not right. Or you are simply recovering slower than you used to and would like to know why.
That is what this is for — whether you are competing, playing recreationally, or just training hard.
Treated by People Who Competed
Dr. Sean Olenek, D.C. played Division I baseball in college and was a three-sport athlete in high school. He works through Applied Kinesiology — muscle testing to find where a problem actually sits rather than where it hurts — and has been through the rehab side of this himself.
Tim Monaco, AP, LMT did not arrive at this work from a textbook:
- Ironman World Championship — finished fifth American
- Powerman Duathlon World Championship — US National Team member
- Twelve ultramarathon wins, 2002–2011
- Overall winner, Vineman Ironman and Buffalo Springs Lake 70.3
He coached endurance athletes and trained high-level performers before becoming an Acupuncture Physician. His credentials since have gone the same direction: Sports Acupuncture and Dry Needling certified, NeuroKinetic Therapy, Neuromuscular Reprogramming, CHEK Corrective Exercise and Performance, USA Cycling Level II coach, and Titleist Performance Institute golf fitness. Thirty-plus years as a licensed massage therapist working on fascia sits underneath all of it.
When you describe a training block, a taper, or the week after a hard race, you are not explaining it to someone who has only read about it.
What We Use
Most athletes here do not use one thing. Each tool is good at some problems and the wrong tool for others.
Chiropractic and Applied Kinesiology
Adjustments to optimise biomechanics, improve mobility and support recovery — including extremity adjusting, so shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles, not only the spine. Dr. Olenek uses Applied Kinesiology to identify and correct imbalances systematically.
Sports Acupuncture
Treatment built around your sport, training load, injury history and what your body is doing today. Techniques used, depending on what is needed: electro-acupuncture (E-stim), individual point stimulation, dry needling into trigger points, Gua Sha and IASTM for myofascial restriction, and sports massage technique.
Available as a 30-minute targeted session or a 60-minute full treatment. If you are unsure, book the 60 for a first visit.
NeuroKinetic Massage
NKT targets the neurological source of a problem, using muscle testing to find the compensation pattern holding it in place. Tight areas are released, weak ones activated, then re-tested to check the correction holds.
Fire Cupping
Targeted myofascial decompression — massage in reverse. Deep tissue work presses down and in; cupping pulls tissue up and apart. Some restrictions respond to one and not the other.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
A rigid 2.0 ATA chamber, not an inflatable bag. HBOT dissolves additional oxygen directly into blood plasma, reaching tissue where circulation is limited. Athletes use it for recovery, endurance capacity, tissue repair and concussion recovery.
Red Light Therapy
Red and near-infrared light targeting the mitochondria to support cellular recovery, and reduce soreness and inflammation.
Compression Therapy
Enhances circulation, flushes metabolic waste and reduces muscle fatigue between hard sessions.
Kinesiotaping
Functional taping that supports joints and muscles without restricting movement — improving proprioception, reducing pain and swelling, and allowing full mobility.
One Building, One Team
Plenty of athletes stack two or three of these into a single visit rather than driving to three addresses — adjustment, needles, chamber, in one morning. Everything above is under one roof, coordinated by people who talk to each other about you.
On timing around competition: tell us your race or game schedule at the start and we will plan treatment around it. Deeper work generally stays away from the days immediately before an event. We plan around your calendar because we have had to plan our own.
For Coaches, Clubs and Teams
If you coach endurance, cycling, golf or team sport in the Orlando area and you regularly field injury and recovery questions you would rather hand to someone qualified, we would like to hear from you.
Tim is a USA Cycling Level II certified coach and TPI-certified for golf, and is available to speak to clubs, teams and training groups about recovery, injury prevention, and what the evidence actually supports.
Call the clinic at (321) 926-2997 and ask for Tim.