Our Approach

I started this journey along time ago now and everyday there seems so much to learn. Sometimes its been about clients and what I can do to help them, to new theories that have evolved overtime, changing the way we look at health, rehabilitation and performance. 

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My latest courses are connected with breathing and what is call dysfunctional breathing patterns - where introducing breathing exercises either on there own or connected with rehab are helping quite a few people improve their health. Clients that I have worked with include those with asthma, anxiety, sleeping issues and helping runners trying to work out how to breathe when they run. 

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Often when we look at how people move we think about joints and muscles, but we also have to consider other systems, like your nervous system that is always sensing, receiving and sending signals to the muscles, and your vestibular and vision systems for balance and movement. Your brain is trying to keep you safe, and if it detects something that is not quite right through these systems it could cause muscles to tense up to provide a strategy to keep you safe or prevent you moving as well. There may also be a psychological factor where you had an injury and now you or your brain does not allow your body to move as well or feel as safe to move as it did before the injury. 

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Its difficult to call any movement dysfunctional as your body is just using a different strategy to move. You may have noticed people walking or running where they will all do it slightly differently which for them is perfectly normal, it does not mean they have a problem, it is just their way of moving.

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The problem comes when you get that muscle ache/pain that affects you at home or work like trying to move with a bad back. We can use different approaches to look at the same problem - we will be putting more in the blogs over the coming months - As well as the standard approaches like chiropractic we could look at the problem from a top down approach, a foot up approach or from a movement pattern approach where we can test joint motion that may show  restrictions in certain positions which may indicate a pattern, in this particular situation, a Left AIC pattern as taught by the Postural Restoration Institute, which could indicate compensations in neuromuscular movement that may be affecting your back pain. 

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