Functional Movement Physical Therapy
Daily lifestyle habits and activities can gradually undermine your ability to move and function efficiently. Injuries, poor posture, unhealthy lifestyle choices and stress all affect the way your body performs. Over time, deficits in functional movement can cause your health to decline and accelerate the aging process.
Functional movement therapy (FMT for short) helps you perform your daily tasks with more energy, less wear and tear on your body, and fewer signs of metabolic disease. FMT goes beyond muscle strength and control to improve overall health. FMT engages the nervous system as a whole, not just individual motor units. Because all of the body’s systems are interdependent, improved motor control affects your entire being including breathing, cardiovascular health, the immune and limbic systems and mental health.
During an FMT session, movements are initiated from a stable base of support, engaging muscle chains rather than individual muscles. The patient or athlete focuses on a specific task relevant to the tasks or skills they perform on a daily basis. If you stick with your treatment pain, FMT has the ability to permanently correct your movement patterns and, in turn, your pain!
Whether you're an athlete or stuck behind a computer all day, anyone can benefit from functional movement therapy! We all develop bad postural habits, motor deficiencies and muscle imbalances over the course of daily activities. FMT can be used to support rehabilitation of orthopedic issues, neurologic disorders and sports injuries.
Our goal is to empower our patients by giving them the tools and resources to sustain their physical functionality and slow the aging process to provide you with an overall better quality of life!