Primal Rotational Patterns works to improve kinetic chain functionality by leveraging the relationships between biomechanics, neurology, and gut health. These systems are interdependent, and lead to a greater rate of improvement of cortical mapping – a biomechanical and neurological process of placing oneself in space and time.
Kinetic Chain
Ask most people how the body moves, and they’ll answer: “muscular contraction”. Movement is actually the result of a complex set of systems working synchronously in what we call the kinetic chain. Limiting movement to the action of muscles is like treating the body like a piece of meat.
The classic breakdown of the kinetic chain contains the entire musculoskeletal system – bones, ligaments, muscles, and tendons – as well as the central and peripheral nervous systems. However, it is the integration of these systems with the connective tissue organ known as fascia, and the entire cohesive unit’s relationship to the gut, that ultimately allows kinetics – movement – to take place.
The Primal Rotational Pattern
The primal rotational pattern is a movement cascade that occurs across the entire fascial web when muscles are innervated by the neurological system to produce contraction. The web is deformed – forced to adopt a new shape and orientation – as a result of muscular contraction.
The bones of the skeleton are designed to accomodate fascial deformation. Bones are faceted shafts that meet other bones to create articulations, or joints. As a result, fascial deformation – movement – creates a rotation / counterrotation cascade throughout the entire musculoskeletal system.
We don’t witness this movement take place, because the rotational cascade is too small in comparison to the gross movement of the joint, but is happening all the time. When you move a finger, you really move the entire body.