WHAT IS POSTURAL MOVEMENT THERAPY





Postural movement therapy helps to restore your body back to its functional anatomy, stimulating your body to move the way you are designed to, allowing you to perform your everyday tasks without aches and pains or be able to keep up playing with your kids. It feeds your body the movement that it is craving.


Ayla Caldwell will take you through a postural analysis, helping you create a personalised exercise menu of corrective exercise techniques that is suited to alleviate your pain complaints and movement dysfunctions and within the time that you feel you can allocate for daily exercise healing.







WHAT IS NEUROKINETIC THERAPY





NeuroKinetic Therapy (NKT) is a technique used to test the ability of your brain's communication to the muscles, it is neuromuscular re-education. This is important because the nervous system tells the muscles what to do, for instance, let's say you really wanted a cookie from the jar on the shelf. You have the desire and reach your arm out to get that cookie jar, but it is your brain via the nerves that is telling which muscle must activate at what co-ordinated time to be able to move your arm with correct biomechanics to get that cookie jar.





We test this neurological activation by applying pressure to a specific muscle in a “manual muscle test” position, and the muscle will either be able to engage and hold strong in the test or it will not be able to activate and result in a failed test.


Failed tests come about because of injuries, falls, whiplash or operations that we experience in our life. At the time of an injury a muscle fails because it is injured and then the brain has to find a new neural pathway to allow your body to move, these are how compensation patterns develop, NKT can identify those compensations and rewire the nerve pathways back to the correct movement pathway.


NKT is a form of functional movement training of discovering muscle imbalances, a practitioner is able to create neuromuscular re-education that correct movement dysfunctions, bringing about performance enhancement and injury prevention.