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After completing PFM Pilot Module Three, you will be able to:
Assess and understand the importance of:
presence and quality of this important ‘lifelong reflex of locomotion’;
its contribution to gait patterns, weight shifting & ALL planes of motion.
You will understand this in the context of its connectivity, relevance to efficiency of movement and its contributions to pain and repetitive injury cycles.
Using the provided stimuli for this innate movement, you’ll then be able to map the improvements in Movement Efficiency it generates. -
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 the Lifelong Reflex of Locomotion
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 #3 - NN3 - LIFELONG REFLEX OF LOCOMOTION
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NN3 Symptom Summary Sheet: Things To Look Out For
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NN3-1: Introducing The Lifelong Reflex of Locomotion: The Amphibian Reflex
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NN3-2: More Introductory Information for Context
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NN3-3: Testing the Amphibian
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NN3-4: More Testing of the Amphibian Reflex
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NN3-5: Waking Up the Amphibian with 'Bum-Rocking' and Troubleshooting Pointers
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NN3-6: Another View of 'Bum-Rocking' with Additional Details (Part of the Lizzie Case Study)
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NN3-7: Amphibian Progression 1 (part of The Lizzie Case Study)
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NN3-8: Amphibian Progression 2 (part of The Lizzie Case Study)
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NN3-9: Doris' Objectivity 1
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NN3-10: Doris' Objectivity 2
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NN3-11: Doris' Objectivity 3
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NN3-12: The Wondrous Life-Long Reflex of Locomotion Summary 1
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NN3-13: Life-Long Reflex of Locomotion Summary - So Wondrous it needs 2 Summaries
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3
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 #3: The Lifelong Reflex of Locomotion
The LIFE-LONG REFLEX of LOCOMOTION that -- surprisingly -- isn't much written about. Doris has 1000s of measurements that strongly suggest we should ALL be fascinated by it, be testing for it and fine-tuning it.
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Non-Negotiable #3: The LIFE-LONG REFLEX of LOCOMOTION - 'The Amphibian Reflex'.
Consider this module for the obvious AND the seemingly unconnected.
‘Obvious’ reasons to look here would be anything to do with a gait pattern/way of walking that seems altogether too ‘arduous’. Given this amazing lifelong reflex helps to gift a lightweight ‘swing leg’, when legs appear to be a deadweight, they move 'clumsily' and/or there is a dependence on sideways/lateral/waddling movement strategies to ‘pick the leg up’, it’s a big clue.
Less obvious gait issues — but no less relevant — are ‘tripping over nothing’ (they don’t pick their feet up), scuffing/dragging feet as they walk, overt ‘picking up of feet’ (they’ve learned to pick their feet up to prevent falling over), tilted pelvis (the reflex is active on one side only), swinging legs ‘out and around’ rather than forward, tension in legs, difficulty co-ordinating contralateral arm/leg swings, excessive toe-lifting, a sense that running is somehow ‘easier’ than walking, walking with a very narrow 'tracking width' (feet landing towards the midline).
Common global issues connected to sub-optimal/asymmetrical amphibian reflex function are: repetitive ankle sprains, Achilles’ tendonitis, shin splints, repetitive calf niggles/tears, knee pain, hip pain, back pain, tilted shoulder girdle, shoulder pain, neck pain.
It must come as no surprise that our ‘life-long reflex of locomotion’ reaches far and wide in its movement influences. Do your hips have the reflexive reactivity — innate in their design — to stimulate the cascade of movement possibilities above and below them?