The Brain, Posture and Sports Performance

hosted by Paul Gagné and Mat Boulé

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Paul Gagné trains some of the top professional and Olympic athletes. He has developed some of the most advanced testing, rehab and injury prevention training protocols to help his athletes in their recovery and performance enhancement.

Mat Boulé is an osteopath and posturologist. He has been combining Posturology and Functional Neurology in a clinical context, collaborating with the top Functional Medicine doctors in the province, for the past 4 years.

Topics

The Foot

  • The sensory and proprioceptive roles of the foot and the ankles in the improvement of balance, timing and quality of movements.
  • Specific methods to increase foot and ankle proprioception.
  • The neurological and mechanical foot: neurodevelopment and performance.

The Structure

How certain postural imbalances will interfere with balance, timing and quality of movements. The role of the pelvis in balance timing and the quality of movements.
  • The pelvis, ascending and descending muscle chains.
  • Specific methods to develop core awareness and stability.
  • Quality of movement: the role of the cerebellum

The Muscles:

  • Breathing for performance: specific breathing methods to improve performance.
  • Role of the hamstrings and the quality of movements.
  • Specific hamstrings exercises for injury prevention and the improvement of the quality of movements.
  • The hamstrings versus the glutes versus the big toe.
  • How to improve balance, timing and the quality of movements by using eccentric lateral force exercises.