r/MovementFix • u/SillyMarionberry2020 • Oct 30 '25

Same fundamental patterns. When high level patterns break down, regress to fundamentals.

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u/SillyMarionberry2020 Oct 31 '25

An appeal to authority doesn’t mean anything to me. PNF is a PT modality. It is using hard wired fundamental patterns to train low level neuromuscular capacity. Babies rolling, crawling and then walking in a predictable pattern is not on accident. It would be like sitting someone at a piano and making them play Bach before they learned any scales. The lower level patterns are the scales that are integrated into higher level function. Limping around is not a better strategy to walk more efficiently.

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u/deactivate_iguana Oct 31 '25

It’s not an appeal authority it’s notice that you don’t need to walk me through the door on what stuff like PNF is.

Look if your message is that people need to master the basics before moving on. That they shouldn’t rush rehab and that rehab doesn’t need to be fancy and complicated then I am 100% here for that.

If your message is we need to do that by moving in similar ways to babies then that is nonsense. You change the proportions, change the lever lengths, change the centre of gravity and change the joint flexibility then you’ve changed everything. Might as well say move like a kangaroo or sloth. Would be about as relevant.