Aquatic Exercise Association

Neuromuscular Retraining  with Ruth Sova

Tuesday, August 13 - 2:00 - 4:00pm Eastern Time (Miami, New York)

Change random, flailing actions into intentional core activation and purposeful movement of the extremities. Explore the Heavy Concept and other ideas to re-educate neuromuscular patterns so that movement is intentional instead of random. Teach proper sequential muscle recruitment and guide clients to initiate movement from the inner core outward. These concepts can be applied to UE or LE, proximally or distally placed body segments, and core. Neuromuscular retraining has been successfully applied to pain, balance, ortho, and some neuro (requires cognition) conditions; clients must have some kinesthetic and body awareness. When functional movement is initiated from the core clients can achieve proper biomechanics and coordination of extremity movements. Functional movement is what we want, and this course will help!

Learn how to …

• Analyze the body to ensure movement is proximal to distal.
• Experience movement initiated from the core rather than the extremities.
• Observe how to trigger deep-tissue muscles prior to extremity musculature firing.
• Feel deep-tissue core muscles engage to improve balance and stability.
• Recruit muscle tissue in an efficient, effective progression.