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Training guidance — not medical diagnosis, treatment, or care.
Last updated July 29, 2026
Read this first. Maui Muscle Mechanic provides fitness training, corrective exercise and mobility coaching. It is not medical care, and nothing here is a diagnosis, a treatment plan, or a substitute for advice from a licensed healthcare provider.
Thomas Ockerman is a trigger point therapy specialist and performance coach with nearly thirty years in health and performance. He is not a physician, physical therapist, chiropractor, or licensed medical provider, and he does not diagnose conditions or prescribe treatment.
This applies to everything in the service: the exercise library, programs written for you individually, meal plans and menus, recorded form review, the community board, and anything Tom says on a live call. It is all training guidance. Individualized programming is still programming — it is not rehabilitation prescribed and supervised by a clinician.
When you join, we ask you to complete a short health screening (a PAR-Q). If any of your answers flag a risk, the app will hold off on prescribing programs until you confirm you have clearance from your physician. That hold is deliberate. Please don't work around it.
Talk to your provider before starting or changing how you train if any of the following apply to you: a heart or lung condition, chest pain, high or uncontrolled blood pressure, dizziness or fainting, a recent surgery or injury, a diagnosed joint or spine condition, pregnancy or recent childbirth, a metabolic condition such as diabetes, or any medication that affects your heart rate, balance, or blood pressure.
Stop the session and seek medical attention if you experience sharp or sudden pain, pain that radiates down an arm or leg, numbness or tingling, a joint that locks or gives way, swelling that appears after training, chest pain or pressure, shortness of breath out of proportion to the effort, dizziness, or nausea.
In an emergency, call 911. Do not post an emergency on the community board and wait for an answer.
Some muscle soreness after training is normal. Pain is not soreness. If you are unsure which one you are feeling, treat it as pain and ask.
Form review is Tom's opinion of the movement he can see in the video you send. He is not physically present, cannot put hands on you, cannot test the joint, and has no imaging. He may miss things that an in-person assessment would catch. Feedback on your form is not an assessment of whether an injury is healing, and it is not a clearance to load a joint your provider has told you to protect.
Other members are not medical professionals, and neither their experience nor their advice is professional guidance — even when it worked for them. What helped one person's shoulder can aggravate yours. Treat member replies as encouragement and shared experience, and treat anything that matters clinically as a question for your provider.
We moderate the board, but we do not review every post before it appears, and we are not responsible for guidance one member gives another.
Exercise carries inherent risk, including muscle strain, joint injury, and in rare cases serious injury or cardiac events. By using the service you accept that you are choosing to train, that you are responsible for judging what your body can do on a given day, and that you will stop and seek care when something is wrong. If you are working around an injury, the safest version of this is you, Tom, and your provider all knowing the plan.
We make no guarantee of any particular result — not pain relief, not a performance number, not a body composition change. Results depend on factors well outside our control, including your history, your consistency, your sleep, your nutrition, and your medical status.
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