Corrective Exercise 

When dysfunction in our movement patterns occur, pain inevitably follows. Through our daily lives, right from our childhood, we have formed our movement patterns through repetative 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 these any of things are inherantly 'bad', but the amount of time we spend doing these things and what we do or don't do to offest them, will determin which muscles are getting over-loaded and which are getting under-utilized. 

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Corrective Exercise is a reconditioning of the neuromuscular connection (how our brain communicates with our muscle and soft tissues). Doing this means, we are actively paying attention to how we move, listening to the signals we are getting back from our tissues and adapting accordingly.

We learn what it should and shouldn't feel 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 piece of machinary and our brain and nervious system are the drivers. 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 easy in your later years.

To summarize, the aims of Corrective Exercise are: 

✧ Reconditioning and strengthening the neuromuscular connection to better control our joints through range

✧ Mobilize overloaded tissues and strengthen weak ones

✧ Restore biomechanical patterns to a more optimal state 

✧ Prevent loss of function through aging 

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✧ Feeling free and capable, finding joy in movement