Kinetic Control Rehabilitation
Pain or injury causes your body to compensate by adapting the way you move by using different patterns of muscle activation. These changes can be long-lasting and may cause recurring painful episodes unless specifically rehabilitated. Osteopathic treatment helps to reduce pain and helps you to regain movement and return to everyday living. We now offer Kinetic Control Rehabilitation combined with osteopathy to enable you to retrain muscles and regain good movement patterns.
A full assessment in the Clinic will look at your posture and movement and discover compensations in the way you hold your body and move. We will set achievable targets for regaining particular activities or movements. You will be given postural advice and 2-4 specific movement rehabilitation exercises at a time to work on at home. We will then assess your progress and give you further advice and exercises until you regain good, healthy movement. It is very important that you are willing to practice your exercises every day in order for rehabilitation to be successful. You should be willing to take responsibility for regaining full health.
Osteopathic treatment coupled with Kinetic Control Rehabilitation is our new service for helping you to regain good health. Deborah is trained in a rehabilitation technique being used by premiership football clubs which is based on the latest scientific research into the effects of pain and injury and how to achieve long-lasting recovery.
Background Information
‘Core stability’ and ‘pilates’ have been the ‘buzz’ words in the rehabilitation world for a long-time, but these methods have not consistently realised as great a reduction in painful episodes as hoped for. Why? - as each person responds differently to injury depending on their body type, hobbies, occupation and previous injuries. Rehabilitation needs to be individually tailored specifically for your body with appropriate exercises.
Research has shown that in people who have not had back pain, deep muscles in the back contract in anticipation of movement, such as bending forwards. After an episode of back pain this muscle contraction is delayed. The muscles contract just after movement begins so the back is vulnerable to potential re-injury. This change in muscle contraction is identifiable long after the episode of back pain has passed unless the muscles have been rehabilitated. This type of adaptation in muscles is a common reaction to injury and pain in most joints. Rehabilitation in the clinic will enable you to strengthen your muscles so that they regain efficient contraction and good quality, healthy movement.