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After completing Module Six, you will be able to:
Assess and understand:
the significance of balance and coordination challenges;
the profound effects poor timing has on global movement.
You will understand this in the context of the cerebellum’s role in movement timing, its relevance to efficiency of movement and its contributions to pain and repetitive injury cycles.
You will then be able to provide simple and effective movement practices to promote Movement Efficiency, through coordination of the sensory inputs used by the cerebellum.
A full case study showing application of movement tools from NNs2, 4, 5 & 6, provides further understanding of the interconnectivity of 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.
Finding the Catalyst for Movement Efficiency through Timing & Coordination
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’.
Course curriculum
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1
Welcome to the course!
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Welcome to PFM PILOT
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“It’s Always Been Like That”
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The LEGO Story
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Staying Focused on Pilot’s Purpose
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Non-Negotiable #6 - NN6 - PFM ROUND-UP
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NN6-1: Introducing PFM ROUND-UP with Doris' Before and After Objectivity
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NN6-2: Basic Balance, Co-ordination and Timing Concepts to Continue PFM ROUND-UP'S Introduction
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NN6-3: Intro 3 - PFM ROUND-UP is Big, So More Background for Balance, Co-ordination and Timing Explorations
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NN6-4: Introduction Part 4 - The Power of the Hum and the Final Setting Up for PFM ROUND-UP
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NN6-5: Leona Session1-1 Checking In and Finding Markers for Change Ready for PFM ROUND-UP
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NN6-6: Leona Session1-2 PFM ROUND-UP IPSI (Vestibular, Auditory, Visual and Motor Processing using Same Side Arm & Leg)
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NN6-7: Leona Session1-3 PFM ROUND-UP CONTRALATERAL (Vestibular, Auditory, Visual and Motor Processing using Opposite Arm & Leg)
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NN6-8: Leona Session 1-4 Checking Out and Noticing Changes
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NN6-9: Leona Session 2-1 Checking In and Mapping Changes as a Result of PFM ROUND-UP 'Homework'
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NN6-10: Leona Session 2-2 More Markers for Change
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NN6-11: Leona Session 2-3 PFM ROUND-UP IPSI (Vestibular, Auditory, Visual and Motor Processing) with Progressions to Rotations
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NN6-12: Leona Session 2-4 PFM ROUND-UP CONTRALATERAL (Vestibular, Auditory, Visual and Motor Processing) with Progressions to Quicker Rotations, and Checking Out to Map Progress
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NN6-13: Leona Session 3-1 Checking In (With Success Stories) and Mapping Progress with Markers for Change
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NN6-14: Leona Session 3-2 PFM ROUND-UP IPSI with Progressions to 'Singing In The Rain'
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NN6-15: Leona Session 3-3 PFM ROUND-UP CONTRALATERAL with Progressions to 'Overhead Waves'
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NN6-16: Leona Session 3-4 Checking Out and Mapping Changes (with Excitement for her Running Streak which DID Continue - see notes in NN6-13)
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Introducing Wibbs as our Second Case Study
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NN6-17: Wibbs Session 1-1 Checking In with Markers for Change
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NN6-18: Wibbs Session 1-2 Challenges Revealed in Vestibular, Visual, Auditory and Motor Co-Ordination (despite being a musician), PFM ROUND-UP IPSI
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NN6-19: Wibbs Session 1-3 PFM ROUND-UP CONTRALATERAL
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NN6-20 Wibbs Session 1-4 Doris' Objectivity Mapping Changes from PFM ROUND-UP
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NN6-21: Moving from NN6 to NN5 as a Case Study Wibbs Session 1-5 Exploring Movement Challenges with Before & After, and Wrist-to-Face Pain Connections via Thought Processes
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NN6-22: Case Study Wibbs Session 1-6 Hyoid, Wrist and Shoulder Connections via the Meerkat
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NN6-23: Case Study Wibbs Session 1-7 Adapting Meerkat to Expose Movement Avoidance Strategies
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NN6-24: Case Study Wibbs Session 1-8 Using Adapted Meerkat to Encourage Clearer Hip Flexion, Connecting Avoidance Strategies to Throat Tension
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NN6-25: Case Study Wibbs Session 1-9 Summary with Doris' Objectivity
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NN6-26: Case Study Wibbs Session 2-1 Checking Hip Flexions, Wrist Extensions, Tongue and Hyoid
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NN6-27: Case Study Wibbs Session 2-2 Exploring Hand-to-Mouth NN2
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NN6-28: Case Study Wibbs Session 2-3 Checking Back In With Meerkat NN5
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NN6-29: Case Study Wibbs Session 2-4 Adding Tongue Movement to Access Better Head/Neck Movement
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NN6-30: Case Study Wibbs Session 2-5 Checking Back In With Markers for NN6 and Assessing IPSI Auditory, Visual and Motor Co-Ordination with PFM ROUND-UP
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NN6-31: Case Study Wibbs Session 2-6 PFM ROUND-UP IPSI with 'Singing In The Rain' Adaptations for Hip Flexion Help and Progressions with Tongue
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NN6-32: Case Study Wibbs Session 2-7 Progressions of PFM ROUND-UP on CONTRALATERAL via Tongue Use
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NN6-33: Wibbs and Doris for Objective Change Assessment
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NN6-34: Summary of the Wondrous Balance, Timing and Motor Co-ordination Mechanics Within Us, Stimulated by PFM ROUND-UP
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NN6 Symptom Summary Sheet: Things To Look Out For
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Final Steps on the PFM PILOT Journey
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Wrapping It Up FOR NOW ...
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After The Lego Story, The Mother Tree Story
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PILOT COMPLETE Symptom Summary Slides to Encourage Your On-Going Learning Journey
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A Summary of Resources
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For a full breakdown of this module, please see below the next image.
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.
Non-Negotiable #6: PFM Round-Up
Bringing it all together with the most crucial element in movement: timing. Without timing, our body’s movements are like a full orchestra without a conductor; or a serviceable train with a rusty signal box. Timing is not just for dance; timing is everything in the context of fluid, flowing, efficient movement. Movement Efficiency is Non-Negotiables #1-5 with TIMING.
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Non-Negotiable #6: PFM ROUND-UP
Consider this module for the obvious AND the seemingly unconnected.
Given this module connects TIMING with movement, ‘obvious’ reasons to look here would be anything to do with a gait pattern/way of walking that seems clumsy, stiff, awkward, discombobulated, uncoordinated, where the instruction “march on the spot” instantly instigates ipsilateral (same side) arm and leg movement, where a single limb swing looks ‘out of place’/catches your eye, where arms are quiet rather than swinging and when the person reports they can’t dance/move to the beat of the music.
Less obvious — but no less relevant — reasons to look here are shoulder, head and pelvis tilts, poor breathing mechanics, poor balance, reliance on convergent vision (looks down constantly/wears spectacles constantly), often trips (slower timing of a limb/limbs means slower recovery from a stumble), confusion with lefts and rights/has to think about it (even briefly), reluctance to cross midline with limbs during sports eg. avoids backhand in tennis and/or bias towards activities using ipsilateral limbs eg fencing, snow/skateboarding, difficulty staying focused/paying attention, difficulty catching/throwing, difficulty riding a bike, repetitive ear infections/history of glue ear/grommets, poor/messy handwriting/turns the paper to write, head-neck-shoulder move as one unit (head and eyes track together, with no separation).
Common global issues connected to poor timing are endlessly repetitive injuries/pain anywhere, with a bias to one side of the body (as if they ‘only have one side’) and poor spatial coordination/orientation.
Your ability to see, hear, think and move simultaneously is an unfathomably fast sequence of events created from sensory, vestibular and visual input, masterminded by the cerebellum — is yours smooth, efficient, organised and balanced … or a bit ‘rusty’? Help is here.