Blog Posts
Musings about movement therapy and therapists, proactive and preventative health care, ideal clients and client outcomes
Have You Done A Self-Movement Screen?
Have you ever tried to do a test of your own functional movement? Good luck.
Maybe you're trying to figure out how to do a movement screen on a client using Zoom on a small laptop screen? How’s that working for you?
Our body’s ability to be both stable AND move at the same time is quite a trick! How objective do you think your movement assessment measures can be as you squint to see your client as closely as possible from afar? You’re likely looking at your client in a...
Are Compensations Helping or Hurting Our Bodies?
When we’re not looking, physical compensations start to change our anatomy and possibly even our physiology. Our bodies are SO good at adapting that we are often not even aware of how subtle the changes are! We may be using entirely new muscles and also not using the right muscles in the right order to perform the tasks we need to do every single day.
So how do we detect these subtle changes, and how do we address them to prevent long term strain and possibly injury and pain? ...
Get Quiet and Listen to the Clues
Self-care, awareness, mental health month, end of exams, start of the next phase of your life ...
We’ve all been there: ignoring our body’s demand to flip the laptop closed, turn over the phone on the nightstand, turn off the TV, step away from the fridge, get up from the sofa and go for a walk or to bed.
I get it, and I’m sure you do too. Tough times mean pulling out all our tried-and-true coping strategies, as well as looking for all kinds of adaptations just to get...
