Bree Tremblay

One of my favorite things about FP is how easy it is to bring it with you where ever you go (although I do miss my Regen Trainer when I’m away).

You don’t need much. I went camping for a few days and brought a lacrosse ball, massage cane, a dumbbell, and a couple FP resistance bands. I focused on the basics, like MFR and exercises from the 10weekonlineprogram

Being consistent keeps my body feeling good and allows me to keep doing things that I enjoy, like getting out into nature for a few days.

This comment comes up often when it comes to scoliosis. We hear all the time that "scoliosis will get worse, but it can never be improved without surgery". Why does adaptation only happen one way?

Functional Patterns aims to apply the correct stimulus on the body to allow adaptation in the right direction.

If you're looking for a non-invasive treatment to your scoliosis, is leading the way in this area.

When addressing scoliosis we can't just look at the diagnosis. We need to look at how the entire body is moving through space.

Humans have evolved to walk and run. When we target the deficiencies in our walking and running mechanics, it allows our entire body to reprogram and take on a better structure. This is how we can get to the root and unwind a scoliosis, just like any other imbalance in the body.

This is what I'm doing when I train FP to address my scoliosis and this is how I got out of pain. If you have scoliosis or any kind of imbalance in your body and want to get to work at solving for it, send me a message!

Great post here from explaining why prioritizing biomechanics should be a top priority if you’re seeking health and longevity.

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Most people think movement is just muscles firing. The reality is, every step you take is full of subtle perturbations, small shifts through your muscles and fascia.

In a dysfunctional system, that fluidity disappears. Joints lock up, tissues stiffen, and the body slowly ossifies.

In a functional system, those same perturbations turn into recoil and balance. The joints play off one another, energy transfers cleanly, and walking or running feels fluid instead of forced.

We’ve helped thousands of people around the world overcome postural and movement ossification by restoring this fluidity in their bodies. You can see countless examples of this transformation at .evidence.

This is the difference we train for. Helping your body build and sustain strength through movement so it adapts instead of breaking down.

Scoliosis needs to be treated as a symptom of poor movement mechanics.

When we view the body as a system, rather than focusing on the diagnosis, we can finally start to find more balance in our body. That’s what I’m doing when I train Functional Patterns. I focus on optimizing the 4 movement patterns that humans evolved to perform: standing, walking, running and throwing.

I no longer have daily pain, and rarely experience any pain at all.

Online training sessions available. Send me a message when you’re ready 💪

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Most people believe that movement is medicine. The problem is, not all movement is created equal.

Everyone understands that food is meant to be nourishing. But not everything we eat actually supports our biology. People accept this when it comes to diet, but forget that the same logic applies to how we move.

You wouldn’t expect a human to eat bark like a beaver, just like a beaver wouldn’t thrive on meat. Each species has a biological blueprint it’s meant to follow. For humans, certain meats, fruits, and vegetables provide the nourishment our bodies are built to process. Movement follows the same principle. It only supports us when it reflects how our bodies are designed to function.

You wouldn’t teach a dog to ride a bike. Its body isn’t built for it, and doing so would wreck its mechanics. Yet people are often taught to move in ways that go completely against how the human body is meant to operate.

Human movement and exercise should be built around the fundamentals: standing, walking, running, and throwing. These are the primary patterns we evolved to perform. Most athletic movement is just a derivative of those. But the further you drift from them, the more likely you are to feed dysfunction. Movements like yoga, deadlifts, and static stretching routines may be popular, but often lead to joint instability and disrupt how the body functions over time. So yes, the more you passively stretch your joints through yoga, or compress your spine excessively with deadlifts, the more those movements become poison, not medicine.

To get real benefits from your training, you have to start with the basics. Today, those basics include standing, walking, running, and throwing with sound mechanics. These are skills most people lose as they age.

So next time you’re selective about what you put in your body, ask the same about how you move.

Is it aligned with your biology, or slowly working against it?

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WHY PASSIVE HANGING DOESN’T WORK

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Most people look at scoliosis and assume the solution is to create more space in the spine.

That’s why passive hanging is often recommended.

The problem is that scoliosis isn’t simply a compressed spine. It’s a three-dimensional distortion of the body involving asymmetrical positioning of the ribs, pelvis, vertebrae, muscles, and fascia.

When you hang from a bar, you’re applying a general traction force to the body. While that may temporarily create a feeling of decompression, it does very little to address the specific rotational and lateral asymmetries that are driving the dysfunction in the first place.

In many cases, passive hanging can actually increase mobility in areas that are already excessively mobile, particularly the shoulders, rib cage, and hips, while doing very little to change the deeper tissues that are maintaining the spinal distortion.

The goal shouldn’t be to simply stretch everything.

The goal should be to apply force to the body in a way that helps reorganize the position of the spine, rib cage, and pelvis while improving the ability of the surrounding musculature to move the body toward a more neutral position.

This requires targeted movement, not passive suspension.

This is why we focus on specific exercises that push and pull on the body through rotational forces. By addressing asymmetries directly, you can begin restoring more balanced mechanics throughout the body, reducing pain and improving posture and movement quality.

If you’re looking for a systematic approach to decompressing the spine, reducing pain, and addressing the compensations associated with scoliosis, our provides the exact framework we use to get started.