PAIN & POSTURE

Functional Movement Training in Thorold

Address the root cause of your physical limitations and reclaim confidence in your body's capabilities. At Recharge Health in Thorold, our Functional Movement Training provides personalized coaching designed to improve your posture, restore natural mobility, and systematically break down the chronic patterns holding your tension in place. By teaching your body to move with maximum efficiency, we help you overcome pain and elevate your daily performance.

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PAIN & POSTURE

Functional Movement Training in Thorold

Q: Is this Massage Therapy?

No. Functional Movement Training is a movement coaching session and does not include a hands-on massage therapy treatment. We also offer and integrated approach that combines hands-on registered massage therapy with movement-based work. In addition to reducing tension, it focuses on posture, movement patterns, and the underlying causes of pain rather than just providing temporary relief. Integrative Functional Massage Therapy is billable under Massage Therapy. Check out Integrative Functional Massage Therapy.

Q: What happens during a session?

Each session begins with an assessment of your posture, movement patterns, and areas of restriction. You'll then be guided through personalized movement exercises and coaching designed to improve posture, movement efficiency, and overall function. The goal is to identify and retrain compensation patterns that may be contributing to pain, tension, or limited mobility and create a more resilient body.

Q: Will I receive exercises to do at home?

Yes. After your movement assessment and discussing your goals, you will be provided a personalized plan of exercises or movement drills to practice between sessions.

Q: Do I need to be athletic?

Not at all. These sessions are appropriate for a wide range of individuals, from those dealing with chronic pain and movement limitations to active adults looking to improve performance. Exercises are introduced gradually and guided step-by-step, based on your comfort and ability. No prior experience is needed.

Q: How many sessions will I need?

This depends on your goals, movement patterns, and consistency. Most clients benefit from a series of sessions to reinforce new movement habits and achieve lasting changes.

Retrain Your Body to Move, Feel, and Perform at Its Best

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Functional Movement Personal Trainer showing client how to use kinetic chains in movement

A DIFFERENT APPROACH

Moving Well to Live and Feel Better

Dealing with chronic pain, old injuries, postural conditions such as scoliosis, and/or hyper-mobility issues? Worried that if you don't address it now, your problems might be overwhelming 5, 10 or 20 years from now? Well, you're not alone.

Most people spend years adapting to the demands of modern life. Sitting, repetitive movements, injuries, stress, and even old traumas can gradually shape how the body moves and holds itself. Over time, these adaptations create imbalanced movement patterns, excess tension, and compensation postures that become your new normal - and often, a painful one. Functional Movement Training helps you retrain those patterns.

Through personalized movement coaching, you'll learn how to improve posture, create well connected, efficient movement, and develop better body awareness. The goal isn't simply to exercise more, it's to help your body move the way it was designed to move - pain free.

This approach is ideal for individuals who want more than temporary relief and are looking to create lasting changes in how their body moves and functions.

This is for you if you:

Have recurring pain, old, unresolved injuries, scoliosis, or hypermobility issues (ie/ EDS)

Want to improve posture, movement quality, and overall body awarenes

Are able to commit to a multi week program

Are willing to invest in your own education and progress

WHY CHOOSE FUNCTIONAL TRAINING?

Addressing Root Causes in Complex Physical Systems

Basic stretching, some exercises on a sheet of paper and 'just go for more walks', isn't going to cut it. Your body is a complex 3D system of dynamic tension that is responsible for dealing with gravity and other daily demands. If you aren't specific about the way you move, at best very little will improve, and at worst, you may make things worse.

Unlike traditional 'treatment plans' and rehab 'protocols', Functional Movement Training works to identify YOUR specific postural imbalances, and patterns of movement dysfunction that contribute to chronic pain. By improving the specifics of your posture, movement mechanics, and coordination, we help the body balance tension and reduce unnecessary strain.

Rather than chasing symptoms, we look at how the entire body is organized. By improving the specifics of your posture, movement mechanics, and coordination, we help the body balance tension and reduce unnecessary strain.

Healthy, pain free movement involves distributing tension across the body, so there is the right of tension in the right places at the right time.

Functional Movement Trainer showing client how to use their body dynamically

SESSIONS & PRICING

Functional Movement Session

55 Minutes │ $130

Improve posture, restore movement, and retrain the patterns that contribute to pain and tension. This one-on-one movement coaching session focuses on helping your body move more efficiently through personalized assessment and corrective movement training.

1-on-1 movement training

Postural and gait analysis

Video Exercise Database

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Your Path to Lasting Results

For best results, most clients begin with a structured plan designed around their specific goals.

Customized plans typically include 8-12 sessions

Ask in clinic for package options and preferred rates

Please note that this service is not eligible for insurance reimbursement. A receipt can be provided for submission to a Health Spending Account (HSA), where applicable.

Meet Your Biomechanics Specialist

Matt Antonello

Matt has almost a decade in experience in Functional movement and posture, and understanding how these related to pain and quality of life. As a Human Biomechanics Specialist trained in Functional Patterns, he focuses on posture and movement patterns that contribute to pain and dysfunction, helping you improve how your body moves and performs over time.

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Matt Antonello RMT and Functional Movement Trainer

FUNCTIONAL PATTERNS

Training the way your body was designed to move

Functional Patterns is physics applied to the human body. The focus is on building competency in the most fundamental movement patterns - Standing, walking, running and throwing (The First Four) in order to gain the most practical movement variability.

The goal is not only postural correction and pain reduction, but also increased athleticism, fitness, weight loss and muscle gain.

CONTINUE THE WORK

Reset your fascia

Reset Your Fascia is a guided introduction to self myofascial release, included in all Functional Movement Training packages.

Using simple tools and techniques, it helps you release tension, improve mobility, and support your progress between sessions, giving you a more active role in your recovery.