Motion Stability

Movement Dysfunction

Movement Dysfunction

All recurring orthopedic injuries involve a poor or prolonged movement dysfunction that places increased stress to the body. With repetition soft-tissue, joints, and nerves can breakdown leading to injury and pain. Motion Stability examines not only how individual joints, muscles, and nerves work, but just as importantly how they synchronize together to provide efficient and safe movement in function and sport.

Posture and Gait:

The way you stand, sit, and walk reveals a lot about the reasons why you have pain. It also shows how a standardized protocol of exercises can only get a small percentage of people functioning properly. Each person has a unique way they move and hold themselves. Motion Stability focuses on providing specific exercises and manual techniqes to improve the individual's needs for proper gait and posture.

Muscle Control:

There is a lost art of exercise. Many people think they know what exercises to do to improve their strength and flexibility. However, we find that patients get hurt due to overdoing or not doing exercises correctly. Certain muscles – usually the smaller ones closest to the joint – are designed to stabilize the joint, while larger muscles are designed to provide more force and power for movement to occur. The brain then coordinates the muscles together for a properly coordinated movement. Motion Stability focuses on improving the muscle control and integrating it with movement to provide efficient function.

Movement Patterns:

When it comes down to it all, the way you move guides how your joints and other tissues are used. Whether it is the way you were trained to play a sport, to a previous injury that makes you compensate in your movement, or a developmental pattern you had when you were a child - each individual has as a specific 'movement pattern' they use to perform a task or sport. Tissues can easily breakdown when the pattern is inefficient and can maintain a patient in their pain. Motion Stability strives to restore the patient to a safe and injury free pattern of movement in their function and sports they play.

Sports / Work Specific:

It is amazing how the smallest change in angle or modification to your technique in a sport or repetitive work activity can significantly reduce a patient's pain. Motion Stability looks to coordinate with your coach, trainer, or instructor on their perspectives of the way they want you to move in your activity. We make recommendations based on how you physically present to make proper modifications to reduce the stress and improve your efficiency. We also have the ability to use 3D motion capture reality imaging – in collaboration with Terminus Club (www.terminusclub.com) to analyze your movement from different angles and sequencing patterns.