If you are looking for a safe way to start exercising, want to improve your posture, or are dealing with recurrent pain and injury problems, this course will help connect you to your physical self. It is the sequence of lessons and movements I guide my physiotherapy clients through to help them understand that posture is a full body experience.
If you are having trouble sitting at your desk all day without discomfort or keep hurting yourself at the gym trying to exercise, this course will give you the fundamentals you need to understand what you may be doing wrong. You may be loose-jointed, and small muscle imbalances can easily pull you out of alignment. Brent & Tiffany will teach you how to harness your flexibility for good while building a strong foundation of movement, mindful awareness, and confidence in your posture.
I have taken a lot of post-graduate courses and am never very satisfied with the takeaway resources in their ability to help me develop my skills after the fact. This course is exactly what I would have wanted to have after taking Dr. Gunn’s courses in 2008, a video-based resource library that demonstrates all the techniques with a mentor explaining why and when to use the intervention. That being said, this course is not a regurgitation of what I learned thirteen years ago; it is built on Dr Gunn’s platform, but is strongly influenced by my work with Diane Lee, the teachings of Shirley Sahrmann and the wisdom of Jean Pierre Barral. I have learned from a variety of gurus in the world of body workers and combined it with my own experience to provide you with a model that I have had great success with clinically.
It is important to understand what biases you are coming into any course with; a physiotherapist, a physician and an acupuncturist all look at the body in very different ways and all work within a very different model of care which can influence how a professional chooses to use an intervention. In my experience as a physiotherapist, physicians that use both dry needling and trigger point injections can tend to zoom-in too much and focus on treating localized areas of tenderness while acupuncturists can tend to zoom-out too much and take an overly indirect approach to treating clients in pain. Both professions are filled with incredibly gifted clinicians, but I also believe that both could stand to learn from a physiotherapy approach that is somewhere in the middle and involves client education, mindful awareness and movement training.
I have chosen to offer this course on the Udemy platform because I like how the interface allows for a combination of written content, video content and downloadable resources. It will allow you to access it on your laptop, tablet or phone, which should make it an invaluable resource to act as an online mentor within your clinic.
You will find short informative clips on my Instagram, YouTube and Facebook channels and a collection of my stories and explanations in my book Why Things Hurt: Life Lessons from an Injury Prone Physical Therapist.
Explanations and demonstrations of how and what to do including common mistakes guided by hypermobile physiotherapist and Pilates instructor. Videos showing how to sit, stand, breathe, squat, twist, lift, jump, walk and take the stairs.
The exercises are grouped into short daily routines for microbreaks at work, dealing with stress, supplementing a gym routine, and overall improvement of posture and movement.
Author Brent Stevenson pulls the course together with brief articles, links to longer explanations on WhyThingsHurt.com and excerpts from his audiobook Why We Hurt.
Have a look at an exercise clip from the course called Rib Shimmy-Twist-Breathe. This exercise helps you free up bracing tension in your trunk and better understand the role of your mid back in your posture.
Why Things Hurt is a site I’ve created to share my articles and videos. They’ll help you understand your aches and pains, and give you concrete and simple strategies to help!