Prehab & Corrective Exercise

“Watch your habits, for they become your posture. Watch your posture, for it creates your boundaries. Watch your boundaries, for they restrict your growth. Watch your restrictions, for they create immobility. Watch your immobility, for it becomes your illness.”      — Katy Bowman

What is “Prehab”ilitation?

Prehab is a methodical approach to optimizing the biomechanics of the human body where corrective exercises and techniques are performed to combat movement and postural disorders that develop from modern living. The overall goal is to improve movement quality, which in turn enhances performance and increases the longevity of joints and overall health.

Why is Corrective Exercise Needed?

It is well documented by relevant members of the medical community that modern living and lifestyle patterns are detrimental to our biomechanical integrity and largely responsible for the onset of chronic joint pain and acute injuries. Movement impairments and compensation patterns develop as musculoskeletal alignment and posture reshape and adapt to the stresses of our environment and habits…human movement literally shapes and reshapes the human body!

“Our bodies are being shaped and reshaped by the positions we spend time in and the movements that we repeatedly perform.” -Katy Bowman

The summation of modern daily activities (such as sitting for prolonged periods of time, standing on hard surfaces in less-than-ideal shoes, and relying on technology and automated systems) are the culprits to many causes of chronic joint pain and acute injuries. These daily habits lead to the formation of numerous malalignments and common compensation patterns, such as Upper and Lower Cross Syndrome, Pronation Distortion Syndrome and more.

“The pattern of disease or injury that affects any group of people is never a matter of chance. It is invariably the expression of stresses and strains to which they were exposed to, a response to everything in their environment and behavior.” -Calvin Wells

Example Corrective Exercises

How Does Corrective Exercise Work?

Corrective exercises and techniques are used to restore proper human movement patterns and posture by: increasing overall mobility and joint function, facilitating neuromuscular activation and developing neuromuscular coordination. This is achieved by assessing individual mechanics to identify muscle imbalances that are causing dysfunctional movement patterns. Once a movement and postural assessment has been completed, a specific corrective exercise plan is developed and implemented following the corrective exercise continuum for long-term progress and results.

Movement Variability helps to make more Movement Patterns and Positions accessible to the body, for which the body can disperse and share mechanical loads and forces more evenly throughout the joints and tissues.

As you can imagine, everyone from the sedentary to the active need a corrective exercise program to follow to keep their mechanics optimized for quality movement. Whether you’re a golfer, runner, pickleball or tennis player, or someone with poor posture, a custom program can be created for you to reduce or eliminate chronic pain and increase injury resistance.