Finding the Catalyst for Movement Efficiency through Lateral Flexions



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’.

  • 18 practical tutorials via on-demand video

  • Certificate of Completion

  • Links to further resources

  • Symptom Summary Sheet

  • 2.5 hours

  • Demonstrations using real people

PFM PILOT Module Four: NN4 - Lateral Flexions

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

Discover how the shoulder and pelvic girdles coordinate their movements harmoniously, and create movement change with ease.

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 #4 - NN4 - LATERAL FLEXIONS

    • NN4 Symptom Summary Sheet: Things To Look Out For

    • NN4-1: Introducing Influential-In-Nearly-Everything Lateral Flexions

    • NN4-2: So Influential-In-Nearly-Everything, Lateral Flexions' Introduction Continues

    • NN4-3: Testing Lateral Flexions

    • NN4-4: Co-ordinating Shoulder and Pelvic Girdles in Frontal Plane (Organising Lateral Flexions)

    • NN4-5: Context and Troubleshooting for Lateral Flexions

    • NN4-6: Another Laterally Flexing Spine

    • NN4-7: Doris' Objectivity 1 - Hip Pain Challenges

    • NN4-8: Doris' Objectivity 2 - ITB and Lateral Knee Pain Challenges

    • NN4-9: Our Influential-In-Nearly-Everything Lateral Flexions 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 Four, you will be able to:

    Assess and understand the importance of:

    lateral flexions of the spine;

    the coordinated motion of the shoulder and pelvic girdles;

    their, often neglected, global influences on day-to-day movements.

    You will understand this in the context of their connectivity, relevance to efficiency of movement and their 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.

  • 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 #4: Lateral Flexions

Nobody visits me complaining of a lack of side flexion, and yet our ability to side flex influences how we reach, shift weight from one foot to another in gait, balance on one leg without falling over and sleep comfortably. Uncover harmonious movement between shoulder and pelvic girdles - literally.

  • Non-Negotiable #4: LATERAL FLEXIONS
    Consider this module for the obvious AND the seemingly unconnected.

    ‘Obvious’ reasons to look here are visible frontal plane TILTS and SHIFTS (off axis to the L or the R when observed from the front or back) of the head, shoulder girdle and pelvic girdle, general ‘stuckness’ in a particular postural shape and asymmetrical arm swing in gait.

    Less obvious — but no less relevant — reasons to look here are extreme one-sided L/R dominance, shoulder and hip restrictions/pain, fidgeting/restlessness/hyperactivity, awkward or laborious gait pattern, aversion to belts and/or tight clothing and/or ‘sitting properly’ (avoids lower back resting against chair backs), poor breathing mechanics, poor proprioception/coordination between upper and lower body as well as difficulties coordinating movement of limbs on the contralateral (opposite arm and leg), poor balance, hypersensitivity to sound, difficulty sleeping due to discomfort.

    Common global issues connected to sub-optimal lateral spinal flexion function are: foot pain, repetitive ankle sprains & calf niggles/tears, lateral knee pain, lateral hip pain, ITB syndrome, back pain, shoulder pain/frozen shoulder, neck pain, TMJ issues, headaches.

    Your spinal side flexions feature heavily in just about every day-to-day movement; does your spine have freedom to the left and right — innate in its design — to optimise your movement potential?

“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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