Corrective exercise (C.E) is a non-medical/ medicinal or surgical approach to addressing pain (neuromusculoskeletal). Other therapists may give you isolative treatment, exercises or stretches specific to the area where pain is felt.
The body is a whole unit though, working collectively and concurrently. Other problematic issues elsewhere in the body will have a chain reaction effect, culminating in pain, so areas where discomfort is felt may benefit little from isolative, symptomatic treatment.
As C.E specialists, we’re trained to assess and treat the body holistically as a whole unit, rectifying and preventing the root cause of why the symptom/s have occurred, often stemming from an overlooked problem elsewhere in the body.
If you built a house without stable, substantial foundations, this would place stress on other parts of the building higher up compensating for the deficiency lower down. If sports players in a team or musicians in an orchestra only practised in isolation, group performance will be uncoordinated, just like people who train muscles in isolation then try to do whole body, concurrent muscular movements such as running or squatting.
Without you realising, the same problem will occur in your body during exercise and physical activity if your muscles aren’t conditioned to function collectively and harmoniously with correct postural alignment and joint stability. Whether running, in exercise classes or sports, or in activities like walking or gardening where mild stress on the body can accrue over time, leading to pain.
Despite rest, symptomatic treatment or exercise continuation, the pain will recur if the underlying problems which caused it aren’t identified, resolved and prevented.
We will rectify, restore and maintain your posture, body mechanics, muscle balance, mobility, flexibility and joint stability. This will help your body to move freely, confidently, enjoyably and without pain in exercise and daily recreational activity.