Finding the Catalyst for Movement Efficiency through Spinal Extension



Who This Is For:

1. For practitioners, where time is of the essence, this module provides you with a set of tools that can easily, and with confidence, be included in your daily work.

2. For those interested in learning more about their own movement, this module provides practical tools enabling both ‘self-analysis’ and ‘self-help’.

  • 38 practical tutorials via on-demand video

  • Certificate of Completion

  • Links to further resources

  • Symptom Summary Sheet

  • 6 hours

  • Demonstrations using real people, including a full case study

PFM PILOT Module Five: NN5 - Spinal Extension

Igniting the flame of interest in movement change via the ‘Six Non-Negotiables of Movement Efficiency.

NN5 is our Uprightness, our ability to maximise our movement potential via the sagittal plane spinal curves (visible when viewed from the side) unique to our species.

This module is twice as long as each of NN1-4 and includes a full case study, applying the tools of Non-Negotiables 1-5 in real-time action.

Objective data provided by the most advanced gait & motion analysis technology in the world: the DIERS 4D High Performance Motion Lab, known to all as ‘Doris’.

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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course!

    • Welcome to PFM PILOT

    • “It’s Always Been Like That”

    • The LEGO Story

    • Staying Focused on Pilot’s Purpose
  • 2

    Non-Negotiable #5 - NN5 - SPINAL EXTENSION

    • NN5 Symptom Summary Sheet: Things To Look Out For

    • NN5-1: Introducing Being Upright and Spinal Extension

    • NN5-2: Introducing Spinal Extension Part 2

    • NN5-3: What Are We Looking For? Here Are Some Clues ...

    • NN5-4: Finding 'The Meerkat'

    • NN5-5: Fine-Tuning Proprioception and Troubleshooting Tips

    • NN5-6: Doris and Emyr's Meerkat Result

    • Introducing Lizzie as our First Case Study

    • NN5-7: Case Study Lizzie Session 1-1 Exploring Restrictions

    • NN5-8: Case Study Lizzie Session 1-2 Doris 'Before & After' with Spine Comparisons

    • NN5-9: Case Study Lizzie Session 1-3 Establishing Missing Spinal Movements

    • NN5-10: Case Study Lizzie Session 1-4 Proprioception Training: Finding a 'Lost' Tailbone

    • NN5-11: Case Study Lizzie Session 1-5 Proprioception Training: Finding a 'Misplaced' Crown

    • NN5-12: Case Study Lizzie Session 1-6 From Supine to Seated

    • NN5-13: Case Study Lizzie Session 1-7 Centralising the Hyoid

    • NN5-14: Case Study Lizzie Session 1-8 From Seated to Standing (Against Wall for Proprioception)

    • NN5-15: Case Study Lizzie Session 2-1 Checking In and Finding "Things That Might Be In The Way" (Other NNs!)

    • NN5-16: Case Study Lizzie Session 2-2 Troubleshooting the Pelvic Tilts

    • NN5-17: Case Study Lizzie Session 2-3 Exploring Hand-to-Jaw and Swallow Connections

    • NN5-18: Case Study Lizzie Session 2-4 Exploring WHOLE SPINE Flexion & Extension to Assist Trunk Extension Development

    • NN5-19: Case Study Lizzie Session 2-5 Chatting Through the Thought Process - Always Fruitful - Often Revealing

    • NN5-20: Case Study Lizzie Session 2-6 Waking Up R Amphibian

    • NN5-21: Case Study Lizzie Session 3-1 Troubleshooting the Babkin

    • NN5-22: Case Study Lizzie Session 3-2 First Amphibian Progression

    • NN5-23: Case Study Lizzie Session 3-3 Second Amphibian Progression

    • NN5-24: Case Study Lizzie Session 3-4 Adding Tongue to Trunk Extension

    • NN5-25: Case Study Lizzie Session 3-5 Lateral Flexions Part 1

    • NN5-26: Case Study Lizzie Session 3-6 Lateral Flexions Part 2

    • NN5-27: Case Study Lizzie Session 3-7 Doris' Objectivity

    • NN5-28: Our Wondrous and Uniquely Human Upright-Meerkat-Spinal/Trunk Extension Summary
  • 3

    Final Steps on the PFM PILOT Journey

    • Wrapping It Up FOR NOW ...

    • After The Lego Story, The Mother Tree Story

    • PILOT COMPLETE Symptom Summary Slides to Encourage Your On-Going Learning Journey

    • A Summary of Resources

For a full breakdown of this module, please see below the next image.

Given all parts of our body are interconnected, you might consider ‘PFM Pilot Complete’ as ‘ideal’, and I wouldn’t argue with you! All 6 Non-Negotiables, in the logical order you see them presented in, makes sense. AND, it seems fair to offer each Non-Negotiable as an individual module.

Bite-size modules can feel more manageable, and whilst you’ll discover for yourselves how no one area of our body works alone, patterns of shapes and movement strategies DO exist and degrees of ‘separation’ can be useful during the learning process — especially if you’re seeking to self-help your movement issues.

  • After completing PFM Pilot Module Five, you will be able to:

    Assess and understand the importance of:

    one’s internal/spatial awareness of ‘upright’/spinal extension;

    the ability to innately access ‘upright’/spinal extension;

    the profound effects of ‘upright’/spinal extension on global movement.

    You will understand this in the context of its connectivity, relevance to efficiency of movement and significant contributions to pain and repetitive injury cycles.

    You will then be able to use this information to choose, and map the progress of, the most appropriate movement stimulus/stimuli to promote Movement Efficiency.

    Through a full case study, applying movement tools from NNs1-5, you will gain further understanding of the interconnectedness of human movement.

  • Course Requirements and Benefits

    All you require is a willingness to explore movement in ways that perhaps won’t be familiar. When applying what lays the foundations for any and all movement, solutions can be simple and powerful, because they tap into how we’re made.

    PFM PILOT is unique in the movement industry in being able to objectively show the changes in real time, and in working with adults to demonstrate how life-long reflexes and movement development are relevant throughout our lives.

    Let’s explore together.

Non-Negotiable #5: Spinal Extension

The domain of the human, and yet clearly elusive if you look around. In as many ways as I can think of, I’ve devoted most of my working life to helping folk find ‘upright’; my explorations show no signs of slowing.

  • Non-Negotiable #5: SPINAL EXTENSION.
    Consider this module for the obvious AND the seemingly unconnected.

    ‘Obvious’ reasons to look here are forward head posture, flexed/rounded spine, ‘dowager’s hump’, forward pelvis posture, general ‘poor posture’, back and neck pain, headaches.

    Less obvious — but no less relevant — reasons to look here are tilted shoulders, tilted head, poor breathing mechanics, stiff/straight spine (reduced curves), poor proprioception/moves in an uncoordinated fashion, poor balance, reliance on convergent vision (looks down constantly/wears spectacles constantly), trips over nothing (forward lean = already off balance), ability to stand straight only with conscious effort (slumps when not thinking about it), toe-walking, bouncy walking gait, over-focus on 'nitty-gritty'/unable to 'see the Big Picture'.

    Common global issues connected to sub-optimal spinal extension are: any foot pain, Achilles’ tendonitis, tight calves, calf niggles/tears, shin splints, knee pain, hip pain, hamstring strains/tears, hip flexor strains, glute pain, piriformis syndrome, back pain, rib pain, shoulder pain/frozen shoulder, neck pain, TMJ issues, headaches, poor spatial awareness.

    Your ability to ‘stand tall’ effortlessly - able to scan the world around you, with peripheral vision as default - is the epitome of a mobile human being; does your spine have access to its innate extension, gifting smooth, less effortful movement?

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.” -- John Wesley

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