| Every time you move, in a flash, your body receives innumerable impulses from the sensory neurons, deciphered by the brain, and relayed out to the motor neurons creating movement. And while your body is an incredible machine, coordinating multiple movement patterns in a matter of split-seconds, there are a seven specific movement patterns that the body relies on most often. |
| These seven primal movement patterns include: Push Upper body pushing away from the body Pull Upper body pulling towards the body Lunge Linear stride, lowering a knee, with an upright torso Squat Hips move downward underneath body with straight back Rotate Twisting of the core (pelvis to ribcage) Hinge Bending at hips forward, butt moves back with neutral spine Gait Walking, jogging, running, sprinting These seven “Primal Movement Patterns” are the most commonly undertaken by the body. To speed up the processing for each movement, our body creates neural-shortcuts for each movement. Imagine, using computer coding as an example, instead of 100s of pages of biologic HTML to activate each motor neuron crossing each joint in the movement, our brain creates a shortcode like [shortcode=action-squat] for ease with repetition. Inside that “shortcode” is the hyper-quick recipe for how you repeat that action over and over, day in and day out. |
| Problems arise, though, when these movement patterns become inundated with faulty coding, such as imbalances, compensations, injuries, improper muscle tone, emotional trauma, inactivity, and more. As you can see in the overhead squat image above, there are many ways to compensate when performing the action. Good news! You can reprogram that code with mindful, dynamic movement patterns through exercise, massage, yoga, postural adjustments, and more. It takes hard work and time, but well worth the investment in your body. Properly performing these seven primal movements on a daily basis can be the difference when it comes to aches and pains in your daily life. No need to battle your own body with incorrect movement patterns; let’s schedule your 1st training/massage session in the near future. Contact me for availability and let’s schedule your next massage! Have a great week, look forward to talking to you soon. Until next Monday, Jason Brain |