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Working with Injuries
When suffering from an injury, most people focus on ways to
simply remove the pain versus digging for the actual cause.
When the pain is gone the problem falls off their radar.
Unfortunately without addressing the real cause, the injury
reoccurs and the sufferer is forced to deal with an extended
problem instead of a minor set back.
Dynamic Sports trains you with careful
attention to form and posture. Anytime you are working to
build a motor engram for your sport or activity, the more
balanced your posture and the more stable and strong your body,
the more effectively you'll learn and be able to apply what you
practice and the longer you'll be healthy to participate.
Rotate or Over Compensate
In golf for example, virtually every joint in the body must
rotate through it's full range in order swing the club
effectively. No matter your sport, if you have to move, then
your joints must rotate. When one part of the body is required
to move and rotate but cannot fully do so,
another part has to overcompensate and this leads to injury.
The inability to rotate, injury from
over compensation or muscle imbalances caused by excess training
in one direction without working the antagonistic direction are
all important concerns. Where possible, we'll ensure you
regain adequate range of motion through corrective and
maintenance stretching techniques. And, we'll make sure
you know how to dynamically warm up and mobilize your muscles
leading to better performance.
Just about ever sport or activity has a
common thread of injuries that occur. Making sure that you do
not suffer these injuries because of improper training or body
preparation, is one area that Dynamic Sports can help.
The Primal Movement Patterns
Paul
Chek, founder of the C.H.E.K. Institute in San Diego, has
developed a concept that he calls the Primal Movement Patterns.
Back in the wild, each of us had to push, pull, twist, bend,
lunge and squat or we didn't survive! Today, even
"athletes" suffer from inability to perform some of these basic
movements. Breaking down your sport or activity into the
necessary Primal Movements, we can ensure that your training
addresses your sports specific needs and helps you improve your
functional capability for higher performance.
Machines and Bodybuilders
Training
on machines do not require you to stabilize your body or joints.
Developed to help bodybuilders isolate muscles in order to
increase their size (not function) is far from what athlete's
need (or anyone other than a bodybuilder for that matter).
Many muscular people (or those who use
machines and bodybuilder movements) get a sore back from
something as simple as bending over the sink while brushing
their teeth or sitting in a chair without a back rest.
Training on machines and isolating muscles can lead to sensory
motor amnesia of the inner abdominals. This means muscles that
are designed to move you (large back muscles), are doing the job
of the stabilizers (inner abdominals). The way the body is
constructed, this often leads to gravitational forces
transferred to the spine thus leads to back pain.
Dynamic Sports employs training methods
that balance your muscles length and tension relationships, work
the stabilizers, activate the abdominal and rebuild your
functional capability. Most back pain and chronic injuries
are addressed as a direct result of these methods. This
approach is a cornerstone of the
C.H.E.K. Institute and why I follow what Paul Chek teaches.
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