How my Degree in Rhetoric launched DCT and the renaissance of Resistance Stretching
Watch Nic Bartolotta describe how he uses his Rhetoric Degree from UC Berkley to change your ideology surrounding stretching, mobility and flexibility.
Nic Bartolotta, HHP, MPT
Founder, Dynamic Contraction Technique
People ask me, what is DCT? The answer is, it's a type of active resistance stretching, which means that instead of passively lengthening a muscle and trying to relax into a painful stretch, instead, we're using your muscle's own contractions to release tension from the inside out.
So the difference between DCT and traditional approaches to stretching really has to do with communication and what I like to call real-time diagnostics. What I mean by that is, when you are working with somebody and you're performing a technique with them appropriately communicating, that means you as a practitioner are learning as they perform the technique.
The technique will be giving you the information that you need to guide the session. So it's not a protocol, DCT is the exact opposite of a protocol. We have a technique that we employ and that technique gives us real-time feedback that then allows us to go through a session and dismantle, let's say a compensation pattern or a chronic pain pattern that's existed for years, letting us do it almost immediately.
When you finish your first DCT session, you will feel profoundly different in your body and over the course of my training, not only did I go through Western physical therapy, but I also got a health practitioner license which means I tried 40 or 50 different types of massage over a thousand hours of training, and cherry-picked the best of the best that I found in that education process and I blended it into DCT.
That's why the technique is so dynamic we merge the soft tissue techniques with the hands on therapy techniques with the self-care techniques, and this is all supported by an entire product line that helps you do those techniques even better.
What is DCT?
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DCT Online Courses
Learn DCT Resistance Stretching on your schedule - Anywhere, Anytime on Any Device
Discover our DCT Online programs for the general public and wellness enthusiast like DCT for Pelvic Pain, DCT for Low Back Pain, DCT Barefoot Shiatsu and single muscle and facial group programs like DCT Upper Body, DCT Lower Body and DCT Partner-Assisted.
DCT Certifications for the Wellness Professional
If you are a Massage Therapist, Physical Therapist, Certified Athletic Trainer or Chiropractor, DCT Certifications can help you help your clients/patients/athletes evaluate, correct and perform better using a proprietary 3 Phase Resistance Stretching protocol.
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Follow the leader exercise/workout videos, full anatomy videos, individual exercise practice videos with basic & advanced DCT Fundamental training
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Easily laid out intuitive course outline to get you started on the right track from the very second you login
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Weekly Webinars All DCT Online programs conduct weekly webinar Q & A's to answer any and all questions related to the specific online course.
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Help Desk, Wiki's and Exclusive Facebook Groups The DCT community is large and growing everyday. Every DCT Online course has it's own exclusive Facebook Group as well as a separate Wiki and Help Desk. So you know that the question you have is being answered and prioritized to your course.
DCT Products
All patented DCT Products were invented by DCT Founder and licensed Physical Therapist, Nicolas Bartolotta to aid all practitioners of human movement modalities to increase longevity of their practice by protecting their bodies from muscular/fascial tension or repetitive strain injury
DCT Proflex
$159.95
The DCT ProFlex attaches to the foot to create a lever arm giving the user ability to easily generate the force needed to eccentrically stretch the muscles of the lower leg.
DCT Knee Pillow
$39.95
The DCT Knee Pillow is a custom ergonomic knee pad that has the unique function of transferring the weight from you knee cap back onto your shin.
DCT Chiro-Balls
$19.95
Specially designed by Physical Therapist, Nic Bartolotta to be used as Trigger Point, Myofascial Release and self-massage therapy balls
DCT Slider
$19.95
The DCT Slider was specifically designed and patented based on the anatomy and biomechanics of the Foot and Heel for exercises.
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DCT Online Programs
We have the most comprehensive online course curriculum available (averaging 115 video lessons)for Athletic Performance and Injury Recovery. Our Online programming will help you discover the best ways to create better functional movement, mobility, and flexibility while improving the integrity of your musculature and fascia.
DCT for Low Back Pain
$259.95
In this course you will discover how to differentiate between the two primary causes for lower back pain and help identify which one you may have - Sprained Back or Ruptured Disc. You will be introduced to "follow the leader" self stretch videos to get you familiar with exercises to begin the healing process. Depending on your injury, specific progressions will be provided for you to follow as a workout.
DCT Lower Body Performance
$259.95
In this course you will discover the 3 Tension Patterns of DCT. You will be introduced to all the DCT Principles related to your Lower Body. We give you more than 110 videos "follow the leader" self stretch and assisted stretch videos to get you familiar with the exercises that will provide you with more mobility, flexibility and muscle and fascia integrity. .
DCT Performance
Recovery
$159.95
If you are stressing the tissues, both concentrically and eccentrically, it is critical that you do soft tissue work on a daily basis. Everything from Barefoot Shiatsu with a partner, using the Rolflex PRO, if you don't. Chiro- balls for spinal release or back tension and Percussive tools to help calm your nervous system.
DCT Foundation Program
$159.95
The DCT Foundation Program is the springboard into learning how to perform DCT correctly and effectively. In this course you will learn simplified versions of DCT exercises so that you can discern a good stretch versus a bad stretch. You will also learn how to release your Global Fascial tension, which we refer to as your "wetsuit", allowing you to access the deeper more local lines of fascia in your body.
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DCT for Male Pelvic Pain
$395.95
Pending Qualification
DCT for Pelvic Pain is a radical departure from mainstream treatments for pelvic pain… we are not relaxing your pelvic floor muscles at all. We are making them stronger, more resilient and actually changing the the shape of your pelvic floor to heal pain and dysfunction.
With the exercises in this program you will be both strengthening and stretching muscles at the same time
DCT Upper Body Performance
$259.95
In this course you will discover the 3 Tension Patterns of DCT. You will be introduced to all the DCT Principles related to your Upper Body. We give you more than 70 videos "follow the leader" self stretch to get you familiar with the exercises that will provide you with more mobility, flexibility and muscle and fascia integrity in your Upper Body .
DCT Proflex for Performance
$159.95
This is a six week course that teaches you how to use the DCT ProFlex for your ankle joint and the muscles and fascia surrounding the Ankle. .
Over 25 videos are going to teach you, not only the individual exercises of using the
DCT ProFlex, but it's also going to teach you about why ankle function is so important and how to avoid specific injuries that are common to the foot and ankle.
DCT Barefoot Shiatsu
$199.95
Barefoot Shiatsu is an ancient form of massage. It's something that's been done for over 5,000 years. Members of the family that did manual labor all day would come home and other family members would perform Shiatsu on them to relieve muscle aches and pains so they could get up and do it again the next day. This course teaches you traditional Shiatsu
techniques but with a walker
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