A clinical examination is part of the first contact. Through interviewing, looking at body position and motoric possibilities we try to sketch a first idea on what’s causing the complaints. After examining the muscles, ligaments and joints we make up a work diagnosis and a customized treatment plan. Dependant on the evolution in time, this plan can be adjusted.

Fasciatherapy is a form of treatment that focusses on the connective tissue. Connective tissue is everywhere in the body as some sort of skin around muscles, organs, blood vessels and nerves and it is very sensitive to physical and psychological changes. Long-term stress can rise the tension in this tissue and through that cause pain and even blockades to vertebrae or joints.

By using soft manual techniques on this tissue and also actively involving the patient in the treatment by means of placing the attention, the vicious circle of complaints can be broken, blockades can be removed without manipulation and the patient gets back the control over his own body.

The power handling of the body needs to be at all times bigger than the powers it endures daily. That’s why it’s necessary to optimize the 5 physical pillars of the athlete, being strength, stamina, coordination, speed and litheness by means of active remedial therapy.

In addition to a lower power handling, a wrong motion pattern is also responsible for a lot of injuries. A perfect coordination of the muscles that steer the movement is necessary to prevent injuries and this we can train through perceptive pedagogy where we make conscious what is unconscious and train on correcting movements in the present. By doing so we can write a new motion plan in the brain.

In medical taping we use special elastic tape that lifts the skin and so positively influences the underlying connective tissue and embedded pain and motion receptors and stimulates blood and lymph vessels in their working.

Depending on the direction of the tape and the degree of stretch the muscles are immediately approached to relax or to tighten and the movement of the joints can be channelled. The information concerning the new condition of the tissue will be transferred to the brain which leads to recovery.

Medical taping is a ‘passive’ form of therapy and is therefore only used as an addition to other manual treatments and exercises to prolong the effect of the therapy in the daily activity.

In equestrian sport everybody agrees that an ‘independent seat’ is the pre-eminent instrument for good communication with your horse. But how is your seat actually? 9 out of 10 people isn’t even aware of ‘errors’ in their pose. Bad habits become natural because of the ingested pattern in the brain. It’s not easy to change an automatism in one day.

In our practice you can come for a training without the horse. We help you become conscious of and improving your sit by means of sensory re-education and core-stability training. It’s initially easier to train without a horse because the awareness of the own body and the correction of it already asks a lot of attention and it becomes even more difficult when the attention has to go to two bodies, but of course is that next step a necessity. All learnt techniques and awareness are confirmed only when in the saddle on location. On the longe as well as when you are riding we work on the refinement of your ‘integrated seat’ and ‘independent aids’ as we like to call.