What We Do

At Active Rehab we aim to help you to be able to understand why you are in pain in the first place. We do this through an extensive assessment process followed up by educating you how you can fix the problem long term.

Once we have completed our assessment we will then help you to create and build a strong and powerful foundation. This is based on mobility, stability and motor control. (Mobility is the ability to access a position. Stability is the ability to hold a position, and Motor control is your ability to control and coordinate movement patterns).

We then help you to focus on developing good quality movement based on the principles above in the 6 primal movement patterns (Squat, Hinge, Push, Pull, Lunge and Rotation). This part is extremely important as we encourage you to not load on dysfunction. Loading on poor movement patterns generally leads to injury, so it is important we focus on quality, not quantity. Our aim is to build you up not break you down.

Our system is designed to progress you as aggressively as possible, but as cautiously as we can. Every exercise we select to help you in your journey is designed to consider risk versus reward. We generally work on building you up from the ground. This means that we can put your Central Nervous system (CNS) at ease in order to build strength safely and effectively as quickly as possible. It is worth noting at this point that your CNS grants you strength and mobility (flexibility). Therefore, learning movement from the floor allows us to speed up this process. Think about how a baby first learns movement. This is called Dynamic Neuromuscular stabilisation (DNS). Sometimes we have to regress to progress. For example we learn to run by first learning how to roll, then crawl, then stand then walk. This is DNS

We believe pain has a hierarchy, and as such we are looking for the root cause of your problem. No system works alone, they are all connected.