Functional Movement

What is Functional movement?

Functional Movement is your ability to move your body with proper muscle and joint control. Creating an effortless, pain-free movement. Functional movement exercises simulate our everyday movements. They are necessary for daily life, sports, and other physical activities. These exercises generally involve using multiple joints and muscle groups in a coordinated movement. They train you to have proper muscle and joint control, balance and mobility. Functional movements include squatting, lunging, pushing, pulling, twisting, bending, and walking.

Why do we focus on Functional movement?

When you watch a baby develop grabbing, crawling and walking movements, these are called functional movement patterns. We all have them. The everyday functional movements we use today, all originate from key developmental movements. Often, acute and chronic injuries occur when our body has lost the ability to move properly and co-ordinate your basic movements. A common example is knee pain from losing proper hip mobility and stability. A functional exercise will focus on squatting to create a proper hip hinge movement.

By focusing on functional movement, our experts can help ease your pain and stiffness. At the same time, helping you to prevent them from coming back by addressing any underlying poor movement patterns and habits.

If you’d like to learn more about functional movements, movement patterns or joint control, you can learn more in our functional movement blogs.

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