Corrective Exercise

Corrective exercise (CE) is a program designed to address the musculature and restore functional movement. You can incorporate CE into your massage therapy session or set up a separate CE session. You can choose to have a program that is mostly done on your own at home or come to the office for supervised sessions.

Each CE session has three components:
1. Calming overactive muscles. Overactive muscles are working too hard. Calming strategies:

• Massage Therapy
• Myofascial Release, either in-session or take-home strategies using foam rollers or other self-massage tools.
• Movement
• Stretching

2. Activating underactive muscles through strengthening exercises. Underactive muscles aren’t working hard enough. We start gently with body-weight exercises (no resistance except gravity) and increase from there. All exercise is designed to be within your tolerance levels. Activating strategies: 

• Body-weight exercises
  
• Resistance bands
• Hand-held weights
• Balls
• Other equipment as needed

We don’t suggest activating exercises until you can do them pain free. Otherwise the problem can get worse.

3. Integration exercises. These exercises tie it all together by working both underactive and overactive components to get them working together.

Deb is a Certified Personal Trainer and holds an M.S. degree in Exercise Science. CE is a specialty program within the fitness industry. CE restores strength and balance that has been lost due to injury, illness, inactivity, or repetitive motion that habitually works muscles in a way that creates imbalance.

​Once a person graduates from CE work, Deb will refer to personal trainers she knows and trusts.​