Symmetry: A Brief History
Patrick received his degree from San Diego State in Athletic Training. Still, he credits the inspiration for Symmetry to his own personal experience with chronic pain and injury as an athlete. He played Division 1 baseball at San Diego State, trained day and night, and despite seeing every practitioner he could, a cyclical list of injuries left him repeatedly disappointed by western medicine, benched from play, and with more questions than answers.
“It was an incredibly frustrating experience to train day and night, yet still have to see every practitioner I could from physical therapists to chiropractors to the team physician. I was stretched, pulled, kneaded, taped, injected, iced, and adjusted, only to get temporary relief at best. This was not supposed to happen. I was in a field that was supposed to provide the answers for injury and pain, but no one could give me the answers I was looking for to heal my pain.” -Patrick Mummy, Founder of Symmetry for Health.
In the last game of his senior year, the day before MLB scouts were coming out to watch him play, Patrick's ankle blew out again—ending his baseball career. Aggravated by his chronic injuries hindering his dreams of playing Major League Baseball— and disappointed by physical therapy— he turned to corrective exercise. But even with methods such as Egoscue, he felt something important was missing: quantifying the body to eliminate guesswork. And with that idea, he created Symmetry’s first edition of the patented measuring kit that Symmetry practitioners use to measure. His goal was to be able to determine not where you hurt, but why you hurt and then sequentially restructure your body with the right stretches in the right order for your neuromuscular compensation patterns. Align the body and get out of pain.
Twenty-five years ago, out of both personal and professional frustration with the limitations of Western medicine in treating chronic pain and injury, and out of the hope and confidence he could change lives Patrick founded Symmetry for Health. It’s only taken 25 years and five new editions of the software, but Symmetry is officially an internationally practiced modality based out of Folsom, with Symmetry practitioners now being certified as far as India, Canada, as well as across the United States and over 20,000 lives changed. Patrick loves baseball, and we’re sure in another life he went pro, but he was destined for something bigger than professional sports: changing the face of modern medicine and how we treat chronic pain and injury. With over 20,000 lives changed and Symmetry Practitioners now officially across the globe as well as across the United States, his dreams of baseball were clearly outweighed by his destiny.
