- Why You Need Movement and Posture Restoration
Do you sit for hours in a car or at a desk? Are you hunched over a computer almost every day? How many hours do you stand on your feet at work? Does your job or the sport you play have a lot of repetitive motion?
These activities may cause micro trauma injuries. These are the injuries that fly under your radar but over time can be the cause of pain and tightness.
Activities such as playing an instrument, pitching a baseball, tennis, golf, running, cycling, playing video games, and contact sports such as martial arts, football and hockey, are just some of the activities that may decrease your neurological strength.
Movement and Posture Restoration does not replace your sport and exercise activities. It complements them and allows you to enjoy them more.
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- Why neurological strength is your body’s most important strength
your body’s 3 types of strengths are:
1. Physiological Strength - muscle size and responses to training.
2. Mechanical Strength - muscle's force angle, moment arm length and joint capabilities.
3. Neurological Strength - how strong or weak the signal is that tells the muscle to contract or lengthen.
Movement and Posture Restoration improves your physiological and mechanical strengths. Decreased neurological strength increases your risk of injury and often is the root cause of pain and tightness.
If your pain and tightness becomes severe enough you may be forced to reduce or eliminate the activities that you enjoy.
If not being able to do your work activities interfere with your ability to earn a living, the stakes are even higher.
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- Why Your Compensation Patterns Are Like Icebergs Lurking Beneath The Surface
An injury is not just to the body’s tissues (muscle, bones, etc.). The injury also causes dysfunction in your body's communication system that governs alignment, movement and posture.
And it’s not just sudden trauma, but athletic pursuits, poor posture, and repetitive use at normal levels that can result in injury.
These are hidden compensation patterns lurking beneath the surface.
When you injure a muscle, it “shuts down” to protect itself. Then your body begins to adapt its movements to avoid overusing that muscle. This is the beginning of a distorted movement pattern.
Distorted movement patterns are like bad habits. Once you develop one, they can be very hard to break.
After your injury has healed, your body continues to over-use the muscles that it relied on during the trauma and continues to inhibit the muscles that were shut down. This creates a vicious cycle; the communication to the inhibited muscles get weaker, the communication to the over-facilitated muscles get stronger, and your muscle imbalances become greater
What began as a local distorted movement pattern can have a domino affect that creates a cascade of imbalances throughout your body.
Your body compensates by shifting the stress from your injured tissue to somewhere else. This lulls you into a false sense of well-being until the next stress or injury.
This process continues throughout your life as you develop more complex compensation strategies. With age, the accumulation of injuries reduces your options and your ability to compensate.
Fortunately, in fundamentally healthy bodies it is easy to restore the dysfunction of the body’s communication system governing function, alignment, movement and posture.
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- Benefits of Movement and Posture Restoration
* Increase in energy levels.
* Speed muscle recovery
* Relief from pain and tightness
* Enhance your exercise program
* Accelerate recovery from injuries
* Improve posture and alignment
* Improve sports and work performance
* ncrease joint stability through all your ranges of motion
* Move more efficiently with a greater sense of balance, flexibility and coordination in all your movements
* Prepares your body regardless of the physical activity...golf, tennis, weight training or simply walking upstairs
* Correct the dysfunctional postural and movement patterns that contribute to pain, aging and degeneration in muscles and joints.
Why Traditional Stretching and Strength Training Is Not Always Effective
When your muscles are in a state of dysfunction, they will not strengthen or stretch fully. The dysfunction may not be immediately perceptible, but if they are not corrected, any progress gained by stretching or strengthening your muscles will often be temporary or incomplete.
Exercising your muscles with improper communication and dysfunctional movement patterns only reinforces the dysfunctional movement patterns. The pathways that are the least used develop "sensory motor amnesia". They do not respond to messages from your nervous system. Trying to get your full strength and mobility back by way of stretching or strength-building exercises can easily become an exercise in futility.
Like trying vainly to turn on a light switch when the fuse is blown.
Movement Re-Education At Home
After each session one or two movement re-education activities will be recommended. This will reinforce and help to “burn in” the updated movement patterns.
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- Ask Yourself.........
* Do You Have Tightness Or Pain?
* Does Your Body Need A Tune-up?
* Do You Have Range Of Motion Limitations?
* Do You Want To Improve Sport And Work Performance?
If you answered yes, then you need Movement and Posture Restoration !
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