I’ve been swimming once a week for the past few months. Last week, as I finished, another patron was waiting for my lane. We exchanged hellos and he asked if the water was warm. “I don’t usually swim. I’m a runner.” But, this,” he said, motioning to a very swollen, purple ankle. Turns out, he […]
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Tags: compensation patterns, FMS, Functional Movement Screen, injury, movement, Neurokinetic Therapy, NKT, pain, recurrent injury, running
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In my post Compensation, And Not the Money Kind, I wrote about how the body gets around deficiencies in strength and mobility by recruiting other parts of the body to accomplish the task at hand. While I am not trained sufficiently to identify many individualized compensation patterns, there are recurring ones I see in my […]
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Tags: alignment, compensation, compensation patterns, momentum, movement patterns, muscles, pacing, speed
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Regular readers know that I am studying to be a Restorative Exercise Specialist through Katy Bowman’s Restorative Exercise Institute. Not surprisingly, I incorporate much of what I learn into the classes that I teach. Both through my RES studies and the work I’ve done independently, I’ve become fascinated by the compensation patterns that the body adopts. […]
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Tags: back pain, compensation, compensation patterns, FMS, Functional Movement Screen, hip, hip flexion, lumbar, lumbar spine, movement, Neurokinetic Therapy, NKT, restorative exercise
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