Step 1: Identify the limiting movement pattern (broad movement assessment)
Step 2: Break down the limiting movement into its components (narrow movement assessment)
Step 3: Create a new movement pattern addressing both independent joint function and integrated synergistic function (integrated plan)
Step 4: Progress this new movement pattern through a variety of periodised training stimuli (ONI Movement Training Model)

Isolate and Integrate

Once you have identified a limited broad movement pattern (eg squat movement pattern) and it’s corresponding narrow limitations (eg limited hip flexion - adductor magnus flexibility or hip flexor weakness), your plan should aim to address both broad and narrow levels of function progressively. Isolate and retrain the singular joint function and seek to integrate that new level of function into the collective synergistic relationship of the whole broad movement pattern.

Isolate:

Addressing isolated areas should seek to expand the range of motion in a singular joint and reeducate and increase activation of underactive tissues to control that range of motion. This normally includes stretching techniques as well as muscle activation exercises.

Integrate:

Integration should involve regressive and progressive corrective exercises to retrain the collective synergistic function of all muscles involved in the compound movement pattern that was found to be limited in your broad assessment. This pattern is then placed in a variety of different demands so that it can adapt to have more well-rounded function (ONI Movement Training Model).