Movement Matters

𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗢'𝗦 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞?

We're back baby! Thursday June 10 is re-opening for personal training and group classes. let's go!!!
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𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗦𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬!

Movement Matters provides thorough screens, assessments, and tests to help determine the best course of action to help take care of your aches and pains, muscle imbalances, and dysfunctions. Go over a planned roadmap to your potential recovery. Each treatment also includes time for corrective exercises and/or resistance training. 💪🏽

Book as many sessions now until the end of February to lock down current rates. Rates will go up in March. 😄
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𝗣𝗛𝗬𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗬 & 𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗛

More than ever, the importance of physical activity has been a big topic of conversation. Take away the current global crisis we're currently dealing with, the consequences of living a sedentary lifestyle are a pandemic in and of itself. Not just affecting us physically, but resulting in physiological, psychological, social, and neurological ramifications as well. Chronic diseases from being physically inactive costs the Canadian economy $6.8 billion each year and has been the leading risk factor for death in the US and 4th worldwide. With the increased reliance on technology to make our lives easier and more efficient, it should not be at the cost of becoming lazy.

Click the link in my bio to read the blog. The facts presented in this blog don't consider the current restrictions we've been facing, so it goes without saying how much worse it is for us if the factor is included. 𝙁𝙞𝙩𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 - 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙢.
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𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗖𝗘𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡

Try this test out, stand up, with your feet together. Close your eyes and using your dominant hand, touch your index finger to the other, easy, right? Now touch your nose. It might be a little more challenging but still relatively easy (unless you're drunk right now). The last one, while still using your dominant hand, touch your big toe. All these movements should be done in one smooth swoop, meaning, in one motion, your dominant index finger should land on your other index finger, your nose, and your big toe. People with excellent proprioception will usually get to their big toe; people with less won't. People who don't usually have a hard time doing a single-leg-stance with their eyes closed without losing balance.

As a therapist, we look for these things to help determine if the issue the client is coming in for is happening at the site of the complaint, or if it could possibly be happening elsewhere in the body. Is something happening somewhere else in the body resulting in the client having pain where they say?

As a trainer, we use this to find overactive and underactive muscles. Does the client have the ability to use the correct muscles to create the movement asked without other muscles' compensations? The best example of this is asking the client to squeeze their shoulder blades together without their shoulders rising. Often our mid traps and rhomboids are underactive, the upper traps overactive. So when the client goes to perform the movement, the upper trap does most of the work, and the shoulders end up rising to squeeze the shoulder blades together. This helps us develop a program for the client tailored to them that works towards their goals without building upon dysfunctions and possibly resulting in future discomfort or injury. (FYI, someone with this specific issue most likely has complaints of a sore neck, shoulders, and upper back).

If you're looking for more in-depth insight into improving your proprioception book in a session. The link is in the bio.
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