To keep your health, performance and energy at peak levels you need pain-free mobility. Movement Re-education uses specific movements to quickly retrain your nervous system. Your nervous system will use this information to re-set your body for better coordination, movement and control – all which adds up to a better, healthier, more limber and more pain-free you.
Like all other skills, mobility is a “use it or lose it” proposition. You were born with the ability to move well but because of inactivity, poor training, habitual movement patterns, the forces of gravity and other factors, your body has forgotten how to move well.
Your movements are guided by your brain’s movement map. If your movement map is fuzzy you will have poor movement skills. As you improve the clarity of your movement map you will begin to move with greater ease and strength. Mobility training is vital to counteract the effects of “getting old”.
Your brain controls your movements, so to optimize your movement skills, mobility training integrates the three inputs your brain uses to achieve great movement skills.
- Eyes (visual and eye muscle movements)
- Vestibular (inner ear)
- Proprioceptive
Movement Re-education is not just about moving your body. It is about the quality of how you move. Movement Re-education begins with simple, focused, slow, relaxed movements at each area to re-calibrate that area and to impact your entire body. The domino effect results in a cascade of improvements.
Movement Re-education emphasizes visual skills because vision has a tremendous influence on your body’s posture and movement skills. Over 60% of all the connections in your brains relate to your vision, but only a small portion of these connections are concerned with how clearly you see.
Your vestibular system is important for balance and contributes to keeping your eyes level with the horizon.
First you will learn the basics of good movement and ultra-precise body control. This is like learning the alphabet and the basic vocabulary of movement. After learning the basics, you integrate the visual, vestibular and proprioceptive systems to achieve movement fluency.
Along with integrating the three systems to achieve great movement skills, you will micro-progress the complexity of movement, increase the load, and change the speed of movement.
By improving your movement skills your body will move with less effort, be more coordinated, agile, stronger, faster, limber and you will achieve the performance you want at work, home or play