Let Us Fix Your Pain LOWER BACK PAIN An astonishing fact is that within their life, 80% of the population will suffer from some sort of lower back pain or dysfunction and unfortunately that probably includes you. At Full Circle Fitness we not only understand your limitations and apprehension in regards to exercise, but we want to help you and break down these barriers. We want to find the problem and treat the problem, not the symptoms. Go to any health care professional and they will send you off to pilates, but core strength and endurance is only part of the problem. Here's a list of things that can contribute to lower back: - limited ankle mobility
- limited hip mobility
- quad dominant movement pattern
- poor core strength/endurance
- limited thoracic spine mobility
- your chosen sport
- your chosen field of work
- and your compensation patterns that come from the faulty movement patterns above
I don't know of any pilates studio's that cater to all these things, let alone personal trainers! By using a joint by joint approach to assessing our clients, we can determine where your actual problem is coming from. KNEE PAIN Knee pain is the lower body crippler. It is not usually the knee itself either but rather reffered dysfunction from your hips and ankles. At Full Circle Fitness we can assess these two joints during static and dynamic posture to pin point the exact problem area that is causing your pain, rather then simply treating the knee itself as so many others do, leaving the actual problem untreated. Knee pain is a product of a faulty movement movement pattern, in this case, an anterior or quadricep dominant movement pattern, which in turn shifts your center of gravity forward of your base of support and thus, increases the stress at the knee joint. After mobilising certain joints and then activating a new set of muscles you never knew you had, we can get your body into greater postural positioning to use a more hip dominant movement pattern, decreasing the stress on the knees and shifting some of the stress to the body's strongest area, the glutes and hips. SHOULDER PAIN The upper body crippler, again shoulder pain is usually referred from dysfunction elsewhere in the body. Can't lift your arms above your head? Check your thoracic spine. Can't perform a proper push up? Check your scapula stability. Pain in one shoulder? Check your opposite hip and ankle. Yep, even totally unrelated area's of the body can contribute to shoulder pain. At Full Circle Fitness we test your shoulder through various ranges of motion and find correlations between them and your static and dynamic postural findings. As you can see, where other personal trainers fail miserably, we thrive. Your pain is our pleasure. Navigation: Personal Training South Yarra Personal Training Malvern Personal Training Toorak Locations; South Yarra, Toorak, Malvern, Armadale, Prahran, Richmond, Windsor Happy Clients Contact Us | 
