Injury rehabilitation
At The Happy Body we look at your body as a whole entity, where every imbalance or restriction in your body is most likely to affect not just the joint that the imbalance or restriction is situated around, but also the joint above or below. The example we most often give is how what happens in your feet can affect either your knee or your hip. For example, someone who over-pronates (when the arch of the foot drops inwards) is most likely to drop his/her knee in towards the midline. This causes the outer aspect of the group of muscles on the front of the thigh (quadriceps) to work harder than the inner aspect of the same muscle group, leading to instability in the knee. This dropping inward can also lead to a weakening of the outward rotators of the hip and a tightening up of the muscles responsible for pulling the legs together. Most of the time, the area experiencing the pain is not the area that is causing the problem; the pain is the symptom, not the source.When you injure yourself, there will be a reason your body was prone to that specific injury when it happened. Where some practitioners may look at rehabilitating you back to the point just before you became injured, we go one step further and look at why you were susceptible to the injury in the first place. Once we understand why it happened, we can build a truly effective rehabilitative programme, which will see you avoiding further injuries in the future.
How you benefit:
increase your recovery time- reduce any potential for future injury
- enjoy a wider support group of practitioners aiding your recovery
