Finding Centre

Integrated into whole body movements, we get to see how the biomechanics come together to form natural movements based on the walking gait cycle. Is your patient able to move into a pronating leg shape? Are they not? How might we assess that?

Here, now, in this course, I introduce to you a way of assessing each structure and determining the movements that the body is capable of and not. The assessment is split into two elements: 1) Resting postural assessment of each joint in all three dimensions of potential & 2) Dynamic postural assessment of each joint in all three dimensions of potential.

This give us a resting posture of the pelvis, which should, for example, give us solid insight into the resting position of both the hips and the lumbar spine, while a dynamic assessment informs us of exactly how that person is able to move when the constraints of their resting posture

Think back to the movement spectrum that Gary drew up countless times already. If not centred, then how effective can a joint’s movement be? In essence we are assessing the person’s position on the spectrum of each joint and in each dimension. It’s static perceived centre position on that spectrum and it’s potential to move around it.

All of this informs us of movements we like to do, movements we favour, movements we rely on while contrasting to movement’s we avoid, movement’s we cannot access and movement’s we simply did not even know were possible.

Giving the body access to movement at each joint in all three dimensions creates the possibility for the body to reorganise itself around it’s new movement potential leading to postural change and freedom of movement.

Now we have moved into assessment, you may begin to realise that everything soon becomes an assessment, a game of consistently assessing and checking back to see what remains the same and what changed. Putting new movement into the system will always guide the body back to a more efficient, energy conserving and effective way of being.