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✺ Sports Acupuncture & Recovery
✺ Helping high performers stay competitive
✺ From boardroom to mountain peak
📍Denver, CO | DM to optimize your edge

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Photo Friday 📸

Consistency >

Did you get your training in this week? 💪

📸: @peterpgaines

#photofriday #traininglab #consistency #trainhard

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As a coach, you need to be willing to put the beginner’s hat back on and be humble enough to learn from like-minded people.

Grateful to be surrounded by great people, ideas, knowledge, and experiences that challenge me to grow. Thank you, @traininglab.pt

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Today being at the gym, my heart was full.

Thank you Ali for visiting and spending a month with us learning and exchanging ideas. Challenging us to be better and inspiring us with your time and effort, traveling all the way from Bahrain.

Thank you Lin, for giving us your time & expertise, helping our clients feel better with your gentle touch!

&to the boyz,
Isaac. For your energy & fresh ideas. Plus shout out on the socials game.

AP the unc. For your steadiness & vast experience in everything from coaching to beef, to baking.

Justin my right hand man, partner in crime. The person who takes in all my ranting and stress. & still so ferociously gets sh*t done.

&of course, not pictured but our community of hardworking athletes & members who continue to show up even when it's hard and you're tired and you're hurt and the A/C in the gym is broken 🙏 🙏 🙏

We're building something really special @traininglab.pt and it continues to blow me away me how much you can be fulfilled when you always strive to serve others first.

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Time well spent recently with @sportsmed.acupuncturist taking our profession to the next level 📈

I know I’m in the right rooms when I’m surrounded by people who know more than me, Big Dogs as I call em. Thankful for mentors and colleagues who define excellence in what we do @jenny.sports.acupuncturist @synergisticmovement @oc.sports.acupuncturist @acupuncture_sports_medicine

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If you’ve seen me for pain in the clinic this year, you’ve definitely benefited from the expertise of @sportsmed.acupuncturist Derrick McBride!

We wrapped the year with strategies for lower leg movement patterns. I still have so much to learn, but have benefited greatly from those who have felt called to share their passion with the world.

Whether it’s treating pain, chronic conditions, colds, coughs, hormones, autoimmunity, and everything under the sun, my goal and mission in this life is to help you thrive. Thanks to @synergisticmovement for being a mentor, an incredible practitioner, and helping me with my pain!

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Victory in Arizona! What an incredible week. Solid family time at the Airbnb. Strong performance by Curtis. So proud. Everyone showed up and did their best. Outstanding. I feel so blessed to be part of the Blaydes tribe. God is good.

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Right where we belong. 📷 @synergisticmovement

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August slipped away…

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If you constantly wake up between 1:00 AM and 3:00 AM with tight shoulders, high stress, and pain that stretching just will not fix, your body is trying to tell you something.

In this episode of Rewiring the Game, sports acupuncturist Lin Duffyhill breaks down why Western medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine need to work together. Western medicine is great for understanding the hardware, such as anatomy, physiology, and physical structures. But pain also has a mental, emotional, and energetic component that Western texts cannot explain on their own.

When you look at Chinese medicine pattern diagnosis, those "random" symptoms suddenly fit into a clear picture. Most of the chronic tightness we experience is not even a tissue issue; it is a software problem where the nervous system does not feel safe enough to give you full range of motion.

To truly heal, perform, and get out of pain, you have to treat the whole system: physical, mental, and energetic.

The full conversation with Lin Duffyhill is streaming now. Link in bio to listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

#RewiringTheGame #SportsAcupuncture #HolisticHealing #PainRelief

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What does it take to truly bridge the gap between injury recovery and peak performance? ⚡️

In the sports medicine world, care is often stuck in two extremes: either rushing to fix damage after something breaks down, or pushing for maximum output without supporting the foundation. 🛑

In this teaser from our latest episode of Rewiring the Game, Denver-based sports acupuncturist Lin Duffyhill shares the journey of developing a different kind of patient care. 🏔️ Having navigated sports medicine from every angle as a collegiate athlete, a patient, and now a practitioner, Lin saw firsthand where traditional healthcare fell short.

Instead of accepting rushed appointments and fragmented fixes, Lin spent over a decade collecting modalities to build a better way forward. By combining the precision of Western anatomy with the holistic wisdom of Eastern medicine, this approach tackles the full spectrum: injury prevention, recovery, proactive maintenance, and performance optimization. 🌿✨

Whether in athletics, business, or daily life, sustainable high performance comes down to moving away from reactive band-aids and building a body that lasts. 💪

The full episode featuring Lin Duffyhill is out now! 🎧 Head to the link in bio to listen to the complete conversation on your favorite podcast platform. 🔗

#RewiringTheGame #SportsAcupuncture #PerformanceOptimization #ProactiveRecovery

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If stretching was going to fix it, it would have worked by now.

Think about that tight hamstring, stiff neck, or nagging shoulder you have been stretching for months or years. Why hasn't it budged?

In Episode 10 of Rewiring the Game, guest Lin Duffyhill, founder of Synergistic Movement, breaks down the truth about pain and mobility.

Only 10% of movement limitations are actual "hardware" damage like torn tissue or structural issues. The other 90% are "software" dysfunctions.
Your nervous system communicates via electrical circuits. When your brain senses instability or overcompensation, it locks down your range of motion to keep you safe. You do not always need more stretching or ibuprofen. You need a system reset.

Swipe through to see Lin's journey from patient to high performance practitioner.

Born in China and adopted at age four, Lin grew up in Denver, where sports built her foundation of resilience and teamwork. Inspired by her high school Athletic Trainer, she studied Exercise and Sport Science at Oregon State, where a casual rowing elective turned into a full Division 1 athletic commitment. After years on both sides of sports recovery, she combined Western anatomical science with Eastern acupuncture patterns to treat the whole person, not just isolated symptoms.

In this episode, we also dive deep into why your body compensates in silence until it suddenly breaks down, how to break out of lone wolf mode by embracing the vulnerability of asking for help, and Lin's top daily prescription for every human body: move for five minutes every single hour.

Save this post for your next workout recovery day and share it with a friend who is always stretching.

Episode 10 of Rewiring the Game is live right now. Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts at the link in bio.

#RewiringTheGame #SportsAcupuncture #MobilityHacks #PainRelief

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Is your body trying to tell you something that a standard doctor’s visit completely missed?

When you go in and say, "My knee hurts," the answer is so often, "Well, your knee looks fine, so there’s nothing we can do."

That is where sports acupuncturist Lin Duffyhill steps in to change the conversation.

In this episode of Rewiring the Game, Jade Baranski sits down with Lin to break down what it actually means to blend Western structure with Eastern holistic care. It is not just about whether you are doing physical damage to your body structurally. It is also about asking what is happening from a spiritual, mental, emotional, and energetic perspective.

Lin explains the massive difference between a hardware issue (an actual torn tissue) and a software issue (how your brain communicates with your muscles). A staggering 90% of the time, your body is not physically broken. It is simply compensating to protect you from stress, overload, and burnout.

When both aspects are assessed, you do not just get quick band-aids. You get a space where your full story is heard, your body is treated as a complete system, and your performance can actually reset.

Stop waiting for something to be completely on fire before you pay attention to your body.

Head to the link in bio to stream the full episode with Lin Duffyhill on all major platforms now!

#RewiringTheGame #SportsAcupuncture #MindBodyConnection #HolisticHealth

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