Whats Your Musculoskeletal Game Plan?
David Bowie said, ”Once something is categorized and accepted, it becomes part of the tyranny of the mainstream, and it loses its potency.” Our mission at First Principles of Movement is to challenge the status quo in the MSK field. To be disrupters for innovative change away from evidence-discordant approaches to a high-value positive health coaching mindset.
Lowering people's biological age so their health span lasts their life span is what positive health coaching is all about. Our Game Plan approach promotes both sustainable athleticism & healthy longevity by providing support & community for the road ahead.
There are no cookie cutters for this, however we teach a simple principle-based, person-centered approach that can be applied in any context or environment. Plus, this enables you to use ANY systems or methods you've learned. The keys are simple - first give a positive experience with movement, and then progress to the hardest thing a person does well.
I follow 3 simple steps to create a Game Plan for people to get back to activity. This comes from Matt Jordan, PhD a former S&C coach who now is Professor at the University of Calgary. He has trained a generation of Winter Olympians in Canada guiding them back to elite performance after suffering one of the most career threatening injuries of all - an ACL tear. In this case re-injury is common as well as new injury to the opposite limb!
I) Determine what matters
What is their lived experience? Their concerns & goals? Their demands?
II) Measure what matters
Activity intolerances in daily life. Fear-avoidance beliefs about movement, pain & re-injury. Functional baselines for tracking progress
III) Change what matters
Supported self-management involving hitting the (general) PA Guidelines
We realize First Principles of Movement's (FPM) human-centered approach being less protocol or recipe driven requires repetition to develop competency and mastery. Entering FPM where we are evidence-based and person-centered is like entering a Dojo. It is a process of immersive learning like in the field of martial arts that takes passion, commitment and slow-cooking. Find a coach, team, or community who will guide by the side and support you in co-creating a Game Plan that makes sense & is meaningful to you.
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