This catchphrase “Functional Movement” is all the rant and rave these days! A few decades ago we never really heard the term. The term represents the correction to DYSfunctional movement. Dysfunctional movement is a much more common and older term when it comes to the field of kinetic medicine. Dysfunctional movement is simply, ‘when the “pieces” of the body do not work together as they were designed to’. W e have this many bones, muscles and cables of dense connective tissue, they take on specific shapes and they connect to very specific locations... This is all for a reason! There’s this nice little quote that goes “nature uses as little as possible of anything.” (Johannes Kepler). Nature is lazy; it only invests energy into expressing material forms when enough time and persistence deem it a necessity. The same goes for the structural design of our modern day human body! So, with all this said. DYSfunctional movement happens when muscles (aka our active movers) have a pattern of ov