Finding the Catalyst for Movement Efficiency through HANDS & JAW



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’.

  • 23 practical tutorials via on-demand video

  • Certificate of Completion

  • Links to further resources

  • Symptom Summary Sheet

  • 3 hours

  • Demonstrations using real people

PFM PILOT Module Two: NN2 - Hands & Jaws-Tongues

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

NN2 explores different ways of approaching the anatomy of the shoulder girdle, to 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 #2 - NN2 - HANDS & JAWS

    • NN2 Symptom Summary Sheet: Things To Look Out For

    • NN2-1: In Wonder of HANDS (and wrists of course!)

    • NN2-2: Testing Wrist Mechanics

    • NN2-3: Help for Wrists

    • NN2-4: Exploring Wrist Mechanics and their Movement Challenges

    • NN2-5: Another Pair of Interesting Wrists

    • NN2-6: More Wrist Views

    • NN2-7: Jaw Anatomy - It Might Surprise You

    • NN2-8: Continuing the Introduction to Jaws and this Fascinating Area of Anatomy

    • NN2-9: Connecting ‘Hand-to-Mouth’

    • NN2-10: Releasing Jaws via the 'Hand-to-Mouth' Connections

    • NN2-11: More Jaw Releasing Action

    • NN2-12: Doris' Objectivity 1

    • NN2-13: Doris' Objectivity 2

    • NN2-14: Our Wondrous Hands and Jaws 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 Two, you will be able to:

    Assess and understand the importance of:

    freedom of motion of the hands & wrists;

    their effects on the shoulder girdle;

    their fascinating connections to the head & jaw.

    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 #2: Hands & Jaws-Tongues

Their influences on movement — completing the ‘Extremity Trinity’ — go far beyond their anatomical connections, and astonish many.

  • Non-Negotiable #2: HANDS & JAWS-TONGUES
    Consider this module for the obvious AND the seemingly unconnected.

    ‘Obvious’ reasons to look here are all the common hand, wrist and jaw complaints — arthritis of the hand or wrist, trigger finger or thumb, dupuytren’s contracture, carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, dependence on wrist splints, TMJ pain.

    Less obvious hand, wrist and jaw complaints — but no less relevant — headaches, facial pain, dental decay on one side of the mouth, fast hand/forearm fatigue when using tools/writing, highly developed (hypertrophic) jaw muscles, teeth clenching and/or grinding.

    Common ‘non-local’ issues connected to sub-optimal hand, jaw-tongue function are: repetitive ankle sprains, plantar-fasciitis, repetitive calf niggles/tears, hip pain, back pain, shoulder pain, frozen shoulder, shoulder impingements, neck pain, injury cycles focused on one side of the body, general tension throughout the body, domination of sympathetic nervous system, digestive complaints (constipation/IBS).

    The hands & jaws-tongues — with all their fascinating connections — really do reach far and wide in their movement influences. Do your hands and jaw-tongue have the freedom — innate in their designs — to stimulate the cascade of movement possibilities throughout your body?

“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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