Chronic Pain & Posture Specialist Surf Coast, Geelong

Back pain, knee pain, hip pain, neck pain and shoulder pain are the most common reasons people come in to see us. Chronic pain stops us from enjoying our lives fully and leaves us in a constant state of stress. Most of us already deal with enough stress by just living our lives.

By taking a holistic approach to functional training we address the root cause. Your movement patterns (walking, running/sprinting and throwing) are always at the root of chronic pain. We have a track record of helping people out of chronic pain and staying out of it long term.

Posture is something that most of us tend to struggle with. Gravity is something we are all dealing with every moment and affects us greatly. We teach the 3 pillars behind a strong and upright posture.

Common postural issues include:

• Slumped shoulders,

• forward shifted hips (lack of core strength),

• scoliosis,

• excessive lower back curvature (sway back/hyper-lordosis)

• and excessive upper back rounding (hunch back/kyphosis).

Each of the above are common tendencies of poor posture. Correcting these is paramount to feeling and moving your best.

Avoid quick and passive fixes such as posture braces and posture correctors in Australia. These mask the underlying issue of poor movement patterns and low or imbalanced muscle activation. Functional Patterns permanently solves postural issues.

Correcting your posture is part of the puzzle to optimal health. Developing better control of your posture will enable you to build muscle and to move well in space.

Having incredible health and vitality begins with correct posture.

Weight management can be a difficult thing to take control of. Our lives are busy and there are endless diets out there to choose from. We can certainly become overwhelmed by it all.

At Functional Patterns we educate you on the best foods to eat for a healthy body and weight loss. We even help you discover where to source quality foods and how to prepare them. Functional Patterns is currently offering a FREE diet booklet that you can access via this link.

Poor movement is also a factor in finding it difficult to lose weight. If we move incorrectly it is likely that we will experience pain. The more pain we feel, the less inclined we are to want to move. Every time we are motivated to exercise we become discouraged as the exercise give us pain and soreness.

Addressing your biomechanics is the best long term strategy to managing weight and developing optimal body composition.

A body that moves well in space adapts to its environment well. This will help you to eat more intuitively and feel less impulsive around food. Moving well also help you to know when to rest and when to exert yourself.

If we think of a compressed spine as an ‘S’ then we can imagine a decompressed spine as an ‘I’. taking this concept we can see that scoliosis is a form of spinal compression.

Our goal is to teach you how to decompress your own spine. We can then help to unwind the rotations present in scoliosis by lengthening the spine into more of a 'I' shape. This sets the stage for optimal spine health and balance.

We carefully apply corrective exercises, physical therapy such as Fascial Release, breathing techniques and dynamic movements. This helps you to alleviate pain and discomfort associated with scoliosis. we can also alter the position of your spine and set the foundation for a strong, resilient body.

The fitness industry divides into many many sections including:

• Core workouts

• Flexibility/stretching

• Strength and conditioning

• Physio therapy/massage (pain management)

• Glute workouts

• Body building

Our approach is simple. The movements that you do should account for each of these factors as a package. Functional Patterns is body building, it is strength and conditioning, it is massage and it is flexibility.

Functional Patterns is each of these things because the focus is to optimise the movements that formed the human body.

Before we build the house we have to build the foundations. With solid foundations we can reach our athletic potential and exceed it.

No more taking breaks for injuries, working our excessively or seeing slow progress.

Lack of coordination involves not connecting muscles correctly across kinetic chains. Kinetic chains are muscles that interconnect across multiple joints.

Firstly, we teach you how to connect muscles together across kinetic chains. Then we teach you how to sequence those muscles into movements. You will learn how to coordinate movement in ways that seem effortless.

Although there will be physical exertion as you learn, eventually the movements that seem impossible will become second nature.