Improve your movement, improve your golf game

If you’re a golfer, you are always striving to get better: to hit it farther, to get closer to the pin, to lower your score.  Taking lessons is one way to improve your game. But if you’re feeling stuck, not seeing the amount of improvement you want, perhaps it’s not your swing that’s holding you back.  It might be your body.

Movement is inherent to being human.  We all learn to move as babies and develop more complex movement patterns as we age.  The problem is that time, environmental factors and injury can change our movement patterns for the worse.

Learning to swing a golf club, or trying to improve your golf swing is a complex movement pattern.  More complex than the basic movements that we learned as babies. It’s more complex than just bending forward, squatting, or crawling.  But those basic movement patterns can affect the way you swing your club.

Since the golf swing is a complex movement, it can’t happen if you can’t perform basic movement patterns.  If you can’t stand on one leg or squat, how can you produce enough ground reaction force to hit a drive or weight shift to your left side?  Is it because of an injury or surgery or a motor control issue?

In my previous post, I talked about a movement hierarchy.  Screening out basic movement dysfunction is important, it can prevent injury and improve the way you swing your golf club.  So if you want to hit it farther, get closer to the pin, or lower your score, get a movement screen.

Physical Therapy is NOT just for treating injuries and rehab.  It’s also about movement performance.

At Par 5 Physical Therapy, we are a movement specialist company, not just a physical therapy clinic.

If you want to move better, feel better, and play better, come in to see us.