Sports chiropractic often involves movement training. Some may call this functional training, which essentially means exercises built to help your body move properly for you to simply live your life. Functional training typically falls towards the middle or end of your treatment plan, depending on the case. All too often I see people attempting instagram exercises that are said to be “the cure all for pain” but they forget there is a progression when it comes to functional training. If you use IG or facebook you have in no doubt seen someone doing a crazy exercise progression that looks like they are going hurt themselves, or at least the average person would surely hurt themselves if they tried the maneuver. When these videos come up they have awesome clickbait titles that make us think that everyone can do this and it will help all movement or pain problems. However, when you click it there is some 20-30 year old woman in yoga pants performing some contortion move that if you attempted you would need an appointment with your chiropractor immediately. Unfortunately, there are people trying them that are unfit for these moves and they end up getting hurt or delaying their recovery. Most often the simplest move is the most effective. If you’re thinking, “Why is it then that I have tried the simple moves and they don’t work?” it’s most likely the attention to detail, proper training requires specific activation patterns that you aren’t executing properly. I have always had problems with just giving patients an exercise print-out with instructions to do them at home and expecting any real results Every patient is unique and oftentimes they have minor execution issues doing even the simple exercises. Taking time with patients to go through the exercises, especially to give proper muscles ques will help speed up their recovery and allows patients to take control of their wellness. The most important thing you can do when prescribing functional training is to figure out what the patients goals are. If you are undershooting those goals they may not get better and if you are overshooting for those goals you may injure or burn them out.