Corrective Exercise 

When chronic dysfunction in our movement patterns occurs, pain inevitably follows. Through our daily lives, right from our childhood, we have formed our movement patterns through repetitive habits.

Whether it's the way we sit, stand, walk or run, our learned behaviours are made up of every small detail- such as leaning to one side when relaxing on the sofa, carrying a handbag on your shoulder every day or typing on a keyboard for 8 hours. 

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Now, it's not that any of these things are inherently 'bad', but the amount of time we spend doing these things and what we do or don't do to offset them, will determine which tissues are being over-loaded and which are being under-utilised. 

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Corrective Exercise is a reconditioning of the neuromuscular connection (how our brain communicates with our muscles and other soft tissues). Doing this means we are actively paying attention to how we move through range, listening to the signals we are getting back from our tissues, and adapting accordingly to create intentional and improved load transfer.

We learn what it should and shouldn't feel like to execute our biomechanical patterns and how to adjust and correct when a pattern isn't firing as it should be.

On a structural level, our body is like a highly intelligent bio-suit, and our brain and nervous system are the soft wiring. When they have a strong connection, we have freedom of movement. To have freedom of movement is to have freedom. 

In the long run, Corrective Exercise allows you to enjoy being in your body. To learn a new sport, get on the floor and play with your children, hike to beautiful lookouts on your travels and still get up the stairs easily in your later years.

To summarise, the aims of Corrective Exercise are: 

✧ Reconditioning neuromuscular connections to better control joints through range

✧ Simultaneously mobilising overloaded tissues & strengthening weak ones

✧ Restoring biomechanical patterns to a more optimal state 

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✧ Improving posture at rest and during movement

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✧ Reducing pain caused by musculoskeletal imbalance

✧ Prevent loss of function through aging 

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✧ Feeling free and capable — finding joy in movement