What You Need To Know
Square 1 System is a revolutionary advanced movement framework to restore optimal sensory integration to movement in order to correct the root cause of pain and dysfunction. It focuses on how the nervous system perceives load, particularly ground reaction forces, joint load and positioning to restore the body's ability to move safely and efficiently.
Most rehab focuses on the body - not the brain. Square 1 System pinpoints the specific joint actions that the brain perceives as unsafe (a threat to the nervous system) or intolerant to load. Through precise assessments and interventions, it recalibrates the nervous system and allows those joint actions to function optimally again. This leads to immediate improvements in strength, mobility, balance and coordination.
Your Brain Guides Every Movement, Every Time
The Brain Controls Everything You Are Trying to Change
If the brain feels unsafe, the body won't perform optimally. You can rehab a joint or strengthen a muscle- but if your brain still senses a threat, it will limit movement through tension, weakness or pain.
Until the brain feels safe, the body stays cautious in its movements. The brain constantly integrates input from your eyes, inner ear (vestibular system), and body awareness systems to coordinate balance, strength, and control. When these signals become mismatched, your brain may restrict motion or increase pain as a warning to keep you safe.
When the brain feels safe again, the body becomes confident in movement, tension drops, coordination improves and pain naturally decreases. The problem isn't that the traditional rehab is wrong, it's just incomplete. Brain-based rehab strengthens the connection between the brain and body.
Why is it unique?
The Missing Link Between Pain and Performance is Your Brain
Unlike traditional therapeutic methods that often address symptoms of compensation, Square 1 targets the source of compensations at the neuromechanical level. It provides real-time results without long-term corrective exercises to retrain the chronic mispatterning. Chronic conditions particularly are no longer a "hardware" problem, they are now a "software" problem - the nervous system's control over muscle balance and movement.
If your brain recieves unclear or mismatched signals about the body, it can cause tension, instability or pain. Improving sensory input enhances how the brain controls movement improving how your brain perceives the body, and enhances how it controls the body. Certified in Square 1 system, practitioners at Vital Balance Therapy can help you move better, reduce pain and perform at higher levels almost instantly.
Brain-Based Rehabilitation Serving Metro Vancouver
Square 1 System and brain-based rehabilitation are available at Vital Balance Therapy in Coquitlam, serving clients throughout Metro Vancouver who are ready for a different approach to pain and movement dysfunction.
Who travels to see us: Athletes, weekend warriors, and individuals with chronic pain from Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Burnaby, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, Surrey, Langley, and the North Shore regularly make the trip to our clinic. Many have tried traditional rehab without lasting results and are looking for the neurological piece that's been missing.
Why they come from across the region: Square 1 System is a specialized brain-based approach that few practitioners offer. Colin is one of the only certified Square 1 System practitioners in Metro Vancouver, making Vital Balance Therapy a destination for those seeking this advanced movement framework.
If you're in the Tri-Cities, Fraser Valley, or greater Vancouver area and want to understand why your pain keeps returning despite rehab, brain-based therapy may be the answer you've been looking for.
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