1:1 Training for Pain Relief

Build the strength you need from within to live a life free from chronic joint and muscle pain.

It seems like no matter what you try…

Yoga, chiropractic, stretching, massage…
Crossfit, weightlifting, physical therapy…
No matter how many hours or dollars you invest…

The pain in your body never fully goes away.
Whether it’s the ongoing tension in your neck and shoulders or lingering sensitivity after an injury…
You’re wondering if this pain is something you’re just going to have to live with.

That doesn’t have to be the case.
The problem is that chronic pain is a symptom of deeper issues going on in your body that most modalities fail to address in a comprehensive way. This leaves you stuck in a cycle of hopping from modality to modality finding only partial or short-term relief.

You need a system that allows your body to actually HEAL chronic joint and muscle pain by resolving its underlying causes.

The 2 underlying causes of most chronic joint and muscle pain are

1. Improper movement
2. Systemic inflammation

Human bodies have evolved over hundreds of thousand years to be incredibly well adapted to our environment.

We would walk vast distances following the seasonal availability of food.

We’d sprint and throw while hunting.

We were in constant contact with the earth and would wake and sleep with the sun.

Today, most of our lives carry little semblance to the environment our bodies evolved in.

Most people are relatively sedentary and have poor posture, and this lack of proper use of our body leads to our musculature being underdeveloped.

Underdeveloped muscles result in your bones and joints not being held in their correct alignments while you move throughout your day. Which then leads to joint instability, poor posture, injuries, and ultimately–pain.

This pain is then exacerbated by whole body inflammation due to the exposures of modern day living.
Toxins are in our food, drinking water, personal care and cleaning products…
We are constantly surrounded by artificial lighting that disrupts our circadian rhythm and leads to less restorative sleep.

Fortunately though, through introducing the right patterns of movement and reducing sources of inflammation, your body is capable of healing. This is what Functional Patterns is designed to do.

Functional Patterns was developed with a biological understanding of the body.

Functional Patterns methodology is threefold.

1. Relax adhesions in the muscles through myofascial release
Your body stores tension in a network of tissues that wrap around and support your organs and muscles. We use a self-massage technique called myofascial release to smooth and rehydrate stiffness points that keep you in poor positions and movement patterns.

2. Strengthen musculature to hold joints in their most optimal alignment as you move
FP exercises train your body to efficiently perform the core functions of the human body – standing, walking, running, and throwing. This is achieved through training 2 crucial functions:

1. Elastic recoil: The ability of your muscles to “spring” back after applying a stretching force and
2. Contralateral reciprocation: When opposite sides of your body are moving in opposite directions in a coordinated way.

These functions teach your muscles to move as the agile and integrated system they have evolved to be.

And this is what most other modalities are missing:

• Chiropractic may realign the joints, and massage relieves muscle tension, but in both modalities, nothing is done to repattern the musculature in a way that keeps the results from reverting.
• On the other hand, yoga, CrossFit, weightlifting, and physical therapy provide some isolated strength increases, but they typically don’t train elastic recoil and contralateral reciprocation across the body. Thus, your body doesn’t know how to hold the joint alignments and muscle engagements it needs to move pain-free.

In FP training, we start with the foundational exercises that teach you to engage your main muscle groups correctly. Once these engagements are established, we then build into movements that use these two functions in more dynamic and powerful ways.

3. Reduce sources of inflammation through intentional lifestyle changes
Learn how to support your body’s healing by shifting your diet and daily practices to accelerate your training results.

We believe that everyone deserves to feel strong, confident and free in their body.

Your physical and mental well being are intimately intertwined.

Functional Patterns not only strengthens your body, but also improves your awareness of your body in time and space. As you train, you’ll become more intentional with your breath and build a deeper connection to the postures and shapes your body is making as you move.

As you implement the lifestyle habits we teach, you’ll be getting better sleep and have less inflammation that leads to feeling more energized throughout the day.

Moving and eating in accordance with our natural blueprint is foundational to our sense of wellbeing. Coming back to these basics creates physiological safety and helps your nervous system relax.

This process, paired with the reduction of pain, helps you feel more connected to and at home in your body.

Imagine a reality where your body isn’t a source of pain in burden, but instead enables you to fully enjoy all life has to offer–Functional Patterns makes this possible.

What types of pain do we address?

We also help with movement issues such as: