Movement is Medicine Law Soc 2016

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Physiotherapy

Getting People Moving! Top Tips For You

Mark SextonChartered Physiotherapist

Sexton Physiotherapy and Acupuncture Clinic

Movementis

Medicine

Physiotherapists get people moving

Lack of Movement as a Source of Problems

Simple Solutions……Top Tips!

Movement SkillsSimple

Painless

Listen to your body

Nilofer Merchant:‘Sitting…the smoking of our generation’

NHS‘Exercise is the Miracle Cure we’ve always had’

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/fitness/Pages/Whybeactive.aspx

Joke

Reality

Passive

Active

Reality

Prolonged Sitting and Common Problems

Change?

Sensorimotor LearningPractice:‘Feel’ Position andMovement

SimpleMovement

Skillsto Practice

Movement skills to practice

Sitting

Movement skills to practiceShoulder blade

MovementPositioning

Movement skills to practice

Standing and reaching

Movement skills to practiceCalf muscle

Gentle StretchStrengthening

Movement skills to practiceYour foot is a spring!

…..avoid the office shuffle

Movement skills to practiceDance!

Desk Exercise

Enjoy movement!

Thank YouKeep moving!

Mark SextonChartered Physiotherapist

Sexton Physiotherapy and Acupuncture Clinic

01 671 0222