<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do You Ever Wonder If The Terminology You Use Is Right?</span></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe you get flummoxed between lay language and technical speak when switching chat between clients and peers?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Or </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe you have simply got so used to speaking that language with clients that you have forgotten how to use technical jargon which makes you anxious when speaking your thoughts to peers or on courses?</span>
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<h4>Language in relation to the human body can be rather ambiguous.</h4>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Tight</span></h4>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Inhibited</span></h4>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Overactive</span></h4>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Dysfunctional</span></h4>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Spasmodic</span></h4>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Weak</span></h4>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Dominant</span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s language that very often causes great controversy in the health &amp; fitness industry and in my opinion, often unnecessarily.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The language we use can potentially result in a great session or a not so great one - Are our choice of words hitting the spot with the person receiving the information?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Or</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do they look at you confused when you try to communicate what you feel might be going on?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Or</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Are the words we choose relevant to their capabilities of understanding or even what they give a damn about to be blunt!?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Communication is absolutely paramount in, not only for our client's sessions but between us and our peers.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">And there is still a gap between us.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">PT’s generally call problem muscles tight or short</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Therapists mostly call them overactive or inhibited</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But what’s the difference?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, it doesn’t really matter too much what you call it in your own thoughts….</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s what you're going to do about it and to whom you want to communicate it with that is key.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">For example, you wouldn’t be explaining to a client that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">you feel their piriformis muscle may be reciprocally inhibited by the gluteal muscles due to the laws found in a research paper a or b.</span></i>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">No! You would likely just say </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">your hips are a little stiff or limited</span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">But when seeking ideas from a peer then your language should switch to a more technical vocabulary. This allows you to have an absolute clarity to discuss thoughts on potential causes of musculoskeletal ‘issues’ and therefore the various interventions you may have between you. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">As an education company, we are very pedantic about the language we use during our workshops. We train all of our Master Trainers to speak with absolute clarity otherwise what we are saying can be misinterpreted.When it comes to the duty of care for our learner's skills clarity is imperative. This also goes for our learner's ability to communicate with their clients, which is often a whole different set of words. It kind of like being bilingual!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">‘Language’ and the problems it can cause means we are faced with challenges when it comes to choosing the right words. This is something I would like to talk about in more detail in an endeavor to bridge the gap between all practitioners. Ultimately this offers further opportunity for us to provide an even better duty of care to our clients. Doing this </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">together </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">through inter referral sites and systems has got to be smarter than possibly struggling on our own; don’t you think?!</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">So with meetings planned with colleagues to discuss this very topic keep your eyes peeled for more information and resources coming your way!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Within our <a href="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">academy</a>, we provide all of our learners with all they need to utilise the most appropriate language to communicate professionally with both clients and peers.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">If you would like to improve your communication skills when talking human movement stuff why not try one of our really cool workshops?</span>

Click <a href="https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HERE</a> to find out more.