Practical Movement™   

Learning Outcomes for Practical Movement^TM – Core 

At the end of the seminar, the participant will be able to:

1. Define the following terms: concentrically & eccentrically contracting muscles, feedback, engrams, proprioception, righting reactions, stretch reflex, reciprocal inhibition, micromovement, macromovement, incremental movement, activating movement, and balancing movement.
2. State the following laws: Hilton's Law, Newton's 3^rd Law of Motion.
3. List the 4 Principles of Practical Movement and describe how they are implemented when teaching movement.
4. Describe how to use the General Guidelines handout when teaching movement. 
5. List 3 things that cause dysfunctional movement and postural patterns to develop (and by extension, muscular imbalances to occur).
6. State why movement re-education (Practical Movement) is used instead of stretching.
7. Name at least two muscles that cause a particular postural imbalance in the pelvis (rotation, tilt, flexion/extension or flare distortions).
8. Describe at least 3 strategies for incorporating movement into their current massage / bodywork / therapeutic session.
9. Describe at least 3 strategies for motivating their clients to perform movement in their daily lives.
10. Demonstrate the ability to correctly use the manual to locate appropriate movements for their client by:
• Locating in the appendices which muscles cause a particular imbalance pattern.
• Then, locating in the index appropriate movements for those muscles.
11. Perform at least 5 movements for spinal rotation and describe which muscles each movement affects.
12. Perform at least 5 movements for spinal flexion and extension and describe which muscles each movement affects.
13. Perform at least 5 movements for spinal lateral flexion and describe which muscles each movement affects.
14. List the primary and accessory muscles of inhalation; list the muscles of exhalation.
15. Perform at least 5 breath movements affecting the respiratory muscles and describe how each is used to address various spinal and postural imbalances.
16. Perform a method of sitting up and lying down that is not stressful to the low back or abdominal musculature.
17. Describe the principles of Movement with FeedbackTM and apply these principles to lengthen various muscles or muscle groups of the body such as the internal & external obliques, the pectoralis muscles, and latissimus dorsi.
18. Describe how each of the movements in the seminar is used.
19. List which movements in the Core seminar best treats postural imbalances such as a wedge imbalance, a parallelogram imbalance, and rotational imbalances.