Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation focuses on increasing awareness and education of particular lifestyle habits and choices that can greatly assist the body to recover from years of poor or compromised health.

Controlling and optimising foot function with prescription orthoses is a great and valuable start, but there's lots more you can do to maximise and maintain the benefit you get from improved foot function. By incorporating some positive changes to your lifestyle choices, such as the food you choose to eat, what chair you choose to sit on and how you move around and use your body, you can reap even better and longer term benefits.

Rehabilitation is based on the fundamental naturopathic principle that the body has it's own innate capacity to heal itself, provided it is not obstructed or prevented from doing so.

Abnormal foot function is a constant obstructive force that forces the body into a compensatory pattern of survival. Treat the symptoms and the body will continue to function abnormally, with health and vitality deteriorating with age. By optimising foot function using functional custom orthoses, the body is free to begin to heal itself.

Because the effects of abnormal foot function have been with you since you started to walk, the changes will have occurred gradually and slowly. Your patterns of movement will have developed in part as a compensatory effort by your body to adapt to your unstable foundation. In turn this will have weakened certain areas and muscle groups of the body, which then encourages slouching and poor posture to develop.

Furthermore, the chronic stress generated from constant adaptation to an unstable foundation forces changes to take place in other areas of the body. Sleep disturbances, weight fluctuations, the development of asthma, intestinal problems, exhaustion, fatigue, irritability, anger, anxiety, frustration, difficulty concentrating, impatience, losing control and brain fog can be some, but by no means all of the problems that can develop as a result of years spent adapting to abnormal foot function.

Here, we want to increase your awareness of how different foods interact with your particular body and how relearning to move and sit efficiently can result in significant health improvements now and for the long term.

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