MAINTENANCE: PROPRIOCEPTIVE GYM IN A GROUP

When we talk about posture treatment, we must remember that it is more complex/complete than merely going to the physical therapist’s office and lying on the table for an hour. It is true that we need the physical therapist to directly treat certain structures of our body, but once that happens, we have to integrate those changes into our physical framework and our movements.

This means that if the therapist treats us for a contracted trapezius muscle, following the office visit we need to do proprioceptive work: body awareness exercises to keep our shoulders lowered, “supported on our pelvis” and “not suspended from our head”. If we neglect our own participation, we are certain to end up with another contracted muscle. Does that sound familiar?

To this end, it is tremendously beneficial to round out your treatment with Proprioceptive or Maintenance Gym. This is a weekly 1-hour class in a reduced group of a maximum of 3 people. Participants do floor work with different objects: bars, balls, boards, etc, and carry out exercises that will stimulate and integrate the changes taking place in our bodies into our motor cortex.