The principles underpinning the NMAHM® are used to analyse movement, and also to inform and guide the development of appropriate and proper movement practice.
With regard to supporting people in their movement practice and assisting in injury prevention, MovES Ltd suggests that individuals should be enabled:
- to identify whether or not the activities they perform are appropriate from a (health and) safety perspective – if the activities are hazardous and riskful, the individual should be made aware of this to enable health choices to be made from an informed perspective
- to ascertain whether or not the way they move is actually healthful and protective - if the individual is moving inefficiently, then ideally the choice is offered to continue as they are (with the additional awareness of problems that may be being set down within body systems), or:
- to accept the opportunity to change their habitual movement style and begin to develop efficient movement skills
- to be increasingly aware of the effects of different movement styles
In the workplace such enablement should further enhance and support any in-house health, safety and well-being policies and procedures, and are ideal for supporting any drives towards enhancing the efficacy of participatory ergonomics etc schemes. The start point for the NMAHM® is recognising that people move
- all the time to carry out their daily activities
- reflexly/ subconsciously with generally little or no thought about how they move
UNTIL/ UNLESS something (usually
tension/ache/pain/musculoskeletal injury) stops them from doing so.
The initial question to be asked then is: Is there a need to change? And if so should the change focus on
- what people do?, Or
- how they do it, Or
- both -
- equally?
- one more than the other?
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