First, put everything back where it belongs,

Bodywork

• Integrated Manual Therapy
  • Orthopedic Massage (Waslaski)
  • MAT… Myoskeletal Alignment Therapy (Dalton)
  • PR… Positional Release (Chaitow)
  • MET… Muscle Energy Technique (Chaitow)

then, introduce movement.

Movement  (The Self-Care Tool Box)

• Basic Stretching Routine (my own work based on Janda’s ‘Classification of Muscle Imbalance’)
  • Reinforcing ‘corrected’ muscle length/strength balance
• Basic Fascial Fitness Training
  • Rejuvenating deteriorated connective tissue (my own work based on Schleip & Muller ‘Training Principles for Fascial Connective Tissue’)
    • ‘Slow’ dynamic and ‘fast’ dynamic stretching patterns for:
      1. Abdominal fascia
      2. Thoracolumbar fascia
      3. Lateral line, including latissimus, gluteals, TFL, ITT, abductors, peroneals
      4. Superficial back line, including plantar fascia, soleus, gastrocnemeius, achilles tendon
• Gait Pattern Analysis and Training (based on my own work and practice developing movement components for rehabilitating ankle, knee, hip, back, and shoulder pain)
  • Evaluating for required kinematics of functional gait
  • Neuromuscular Re-education;
  • Correcting dysfunctional muscle firing sequences and compensated movement patterns
  • Re-establishing and reinforcing primary movement patterns that compose the complex Gait ‘Walking’ Pattern
  • Gait Pattern Training (mat work)  (supine and prone positions); increasing proprioceptive awareness
    • Bilateral bridging w/bilateral shoulder flexion/extension
    • Single-leg bridge w/contralateral hip flexion, including appropriate contralateral shoulder flexion/extension
    • Bilateral supine straight-leg bridge w/bilateral shoulder flexion/extension
    • Single-leg, straight-leg bridge w/contralateral straight-leg hip flexion, w/appropriate alternating shoulder flexion/extension
    • Prone, quadruped, oscillating, tail-wag
    • Supine, quadruped, oscillating hip-shoulder counter-rotation
  • ‘Form’ walking (track); exaggerated movement pattern training
    • Exaggerated hipshift,
    • Hipshift crossover,
    • Exaggerated arm swing,
    • Wide-track walking,
    • Exaggerated hip-shoulder counter-rotation
  • Walking ‘with a purpose’ (track); putting it all together