About Us:
Prehab Health and Wellness Inc. is a professional personal training company offering TPI Golf Fitness, Athlete Performance, and Movement Correction training to clients in Edmonton, St.Albert, and Sherwood Park. Our philosophy is simple: Enhance performance, reduce incidence of injury, promote well-being, and educate. Daily activity, demands of sport, and injury cause the human body to develop asymmetries, imbalances, and faulty movement patterns. These compensations must be corrected and that is why we, at Prehab, pride ourselves in being movement correction specialists.
Training Philosophy:
- Get Mobile
Mobility is different from flexibility, as flexibility looks at the ability to elongate (lengthen) a muscle. Mobility is a larger picture of the freedom of movement around a joint. Some joints are meant to be mobile, others stable. Joint dysfunction and faulty movement patterns contribute to compensation and asymmetries. Our programs focus on correcting mobility restrictions and joint dysfunction to ensure our athletes are reducing their incidence of injury. If you begin to strengthen an individual with mobility issues, you strengthen this mobility dysfunction and increase their incidence of injury. Proper movement and range of motion is necessary before training strength, speed, and power.
- Get Stable
When we discuss stability in our training programs we are not only referring to core and hip stability, as many athletes assume. Stability is the ability to control force or movement. As mentioned above, some joints are meant to be stable and not mobile. Strengthening and movement patterning around that joint is necessary to promote stability of that joint. Think of stability as your body’s way of sufficiently managing external forces and movements in a way that promotes efficiency and effectiveness to perform better and reduce incidence of injury.
- Get Functional
Proficient mobility and stability in an athlete create the foundation of building effective movement patterns. Depending on the severity of dysfunction, some programs will only focus on mobility and stability in the early stages. However, through proper movement drills and corrective techniques we may be able to get the body properly moving with an effective warm up. For example, if an athlete has poor ankle mobility we may be able to complete drills early in the session to get that ankle moving to a point where we can train a deep squat. If the ankle is restricted, then the athlete won’t be able to effectively squat. If the athlete doesn’t effectively squat they begin to develop faulty movement patterns and we begin to compound a problem rather than correct it. Efficient and effective foundational movement patterns are mandatory when physically training our athletes. Once we have an athlete moving properly we begin to functional train them for their sport. Knee dominant, hip dominant, horizontal/vertical pushing and pulling, and anti-rotary exercises are implemented to improve strength, power, and speed in our athletes.
