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Everything we have written on pain, posture, gait and training, and the results our clients have made.

Bone Density & Muscle Mass: A Different Approach For Women Over 40

Decreasing bone density and muscle mass becomes a real concern for many as they pass 40 years of age. Our bodies naturally begin to slow down.

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Functional Training in Dublin: A Better Way to Train With Old Injuries

For many people, motivation is not the only thing needed in order for them to finally get consistent with an exercise regime.

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Scoliosis & Hip Pain: What If Traditional Physio Isn’t Working?

Scoliosis can present very differently from one person to another. For some people it may cause very few issues, while for others it can be associated with pain, limitations in movement or difficulty doing the activities they enjoy.

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Back Health Experts Dublin: Overcoming Chronic Lower Back & Shoulder Pain

Ross came to Functional Patterns Dublin after years of recurring lower back and shoulder pain that had affected his daily life and participation in sport.

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Why Does My Knee Hurt When I Walk? Knee Pain Treatment Dublin

Approximately 10% to 25% of adults experience some sort of knee pain while walking, with general knee pain effecting 25% to 60% of adults at some stage in their life.

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Hip & Knee Pain Treatment in Dublin: A Real Client Case Study

Jorge came to us after years of persistent hip and knee pain that had gradually taken away one of the things he enjoyed the most, running.

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Why Stretching Isn’t Fixing Your Tight Muscles

Most people assume that their muscles feel tight because they are short. In reality, muscles often feel tight because they’re working too hard, trying to compensate for poor movement mechanics, or trying to stabilize the body in moments of instability.

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Tech Neck: Neck Pain Relief & Posture Correction Treatments in Dublin

Why do some people suffer more from neck & shoulder pain? Tech neck is a term that has been coined over the last two decades due to the strain and soreness in the neck and shoulders caused by the…

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Why the Same Exercise Can Help One Person & Hurt Another

The problem is that the answer to this question is not black or white. Even though people would like it to be this simple, movement can’t generally be put into such simple categories, good or bad, functional or not.

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Returning to Running in Ireland: Overcoming Chronic Pain After 50

At 52, our client Jorge had been unable to do something that he loved due to chronic pain. He enjoyed running for fitness, but pain in his ankle, knee and lower back for three years previous had meant he had to stop.

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Anterior Pelvic Tilt Or Shift? Why It Matters for Pain and Posture

The anterior pelvic tilt is one of the most demonized things, and hottest topics found in modern training today. Everyone and their mother seems to have an anterior pelvic tilt, and blame it for contributing to their pain and injury problems.

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Lower Back Pain When Walking: Why It Happens (And What Actually Fixes It)

Why Does My Lower Back Hurt When I Walk? Getting lower back pain when walking can be frustrating, and confusing. Walking is supposed to be the most natural movement your body can do. So why does something so simple start to hurt.

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Chronic Back, Knee & Foot Pain: How a Carpenter Overcame Years of Pain Through Postural Training

By 28, Kieran had already spent years trying physiotherapy, searching for answers and getting nowhere. The pain had become something he just accepted as part of life.

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Be The First to Experience 3D Postural Scanning at FP Dublin

We are delighted to announce that our new 3D posture and body scanner is officially up and running! After much anticipation, we have got it set up now have it as a service to offer our clients.

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One Hundred 5 Star Reviews On Google! Thank You

One hundred 5 star reviews on google is a great milestone for us to hit, and while we are not ones to give ourselves a pat on the back too often, we are delighted with some of the feedback in these reviews.

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3D Posture & Body Scans Now Available in Dublin

Finally the wait is over! After what seems like months of preparation, we are delighted to say that from this week on we will be taking bookings for our new 3D posture and body scanning service.

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Stuck in the Wrong Gear? Why Pain and Injuries Keep Coming Back

Are you dealing with pain or recurring injuries and struggling to understand why nothing seems to give lasting relief? You stretch, you strengthen, you rest, and yet the discomfort keeps returning.

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3D Posture & Movement Analysis in Dublin: SCANECA @ FP Dublin

At FP Dublin, assessments have always been the foundation of our work. Before we try to change anything, we need to understand what is actually happening with your body..

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Can Scoliosis Be Improved Without Surgery? A Movement-Based Practice

Scoliosis can be a very challenging thing to deal with, and understandably, an issue that can bring huge feelings of fear and confusion for anyone that has been diagnosed with it. Too many people are told to “observe” and wait helplessly to see if their condition gets bad enough to warrant invasive surgeries.

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Movement Is Medicine – But Only If The Quality is Right

"Movement is medicine” is often oversimplified. In this blog, learn why the quality of your movement matters much more than just staying active, and how poor movement can reinforce pain rather than resolve it.

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Why Your Pain Keeps Coming Back – And What Most Assessments Miss

Do you feel like you're losing strength? But every time you try to do something about it you end up in a viscous cycle of getting injured, running to the physio to get hands on treatment to manage the injury, only to get reinjured.

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Understanding Hamstring Injuries: Symptoms, Causes & Recovery

Hamstring injuries have quickly become the most common of all sports related injuries over the last few years accounting for 10% to 30% of all injuries caused while playing.

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Christmas Opening Hours at FP Dublin

It’s that time of the year again! We at Functional Patterns Dublin hope the year has been a good one for everyone reading as we close out 2025. It has been a good year us.

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FP Dublin Welcomes Golf Pro From Belgium for Intensive Training

We were delighted to welcome golf professional Richard to Functional Patterns Dublin this week for an intensive training block. Richard not is not only a golf pro, but professional hockey player to boot.

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Plantar Fasciitis: Foot Pain Explained

If you’ve ever suffered with foot pain, you’ll understand the hardship and discomfort that comes along with it. The stabbing sensation under your heel when you touch the ground getting out of bed in the morning.

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Achilles Tendentious: Understanding the Symptoms, Causes & Common Rehab Mistakes

Achilles tendentious can be a real pain, and a really debilitating injury. Not only can it put a complete stop on activities like running and field sports, but it can also be a real hindrance day to day affecting peoples ability to do simple tasks like walking.

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Guide to Chronic Low Back Pain Rehabilitation

Low back pain is something that most people will experience in their life, with many experiencing more long term chronic symptoms. This type of back pain can last anywhere from a couple of months, to years, depending on the individual and circumstances surrounding.

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Google Invites Functional Patterns Dublin To Irish HQ

This week Stephen and the team took some time away from our facility to visit Google’s European HQ in Dublin City. We were delighted to have been invited to speak to some of their staff about posture in the workplace and how to utilize some of our techniques in order to feel better day to day.

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Posture Correction: Top 5 Signs Your Posture Needs Help

Do you suspect that your posture needs work? Most people have an awareness that their posture might be a bit out of whack, but is this something that should concern you? Posture correction is a hotly debated topic in the health, fitness and rehab worlds. Some would say everyone has their own unique posture and that the body is very adaptable, adapting to positions it gets itself into good and bad.

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Functional Fitness Classes in Dublin: New Beginner Term Starting

At Functional Patterns Dublin we offer beginner functional training classes running in 8 week blocks. We are delighted to announce that our next group will be kicking off on October 13th and we are already fully booked.

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Sprint Mechanics: Improve Speed & Prevent Injury

Sprinting is the ultimate form of human movement. If you can sprint well, you can build muscle, strength, power, and mobility all at the same time. This is what we focus on at Functional Patterns, getting people to a closer approximation of good sprinting mechanics.

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Physiotherapy vs Functional Patterns: Key Differences Explained

A question we often get asked is how the Functional Patterns method differs from more traditional style physiotherapy when it comes to effectively dealing with pain and injury. While the intention of this blog is not to be negative about the effectiveness of physiotherapy in general, it will highlight what we see as key differences in the practical application of both methods.

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Hip Pain: Understanding the Root Cause & Effective Treatment Strategies

Hip pain is a common issue which many face on a day to day basis. The root cause is not often understood, and as a result, we tend to put too much focus on what the structural diagnosis is rather than understanding the movement issues that are the source of the problem.

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Stop Overtraining: How Doing Less Cured Tom’s Shoulder Pain

There’s a misconception that we at Functional Patterns limit people’s exercise choices when they initially come to see us. The reality is that there are activities that people do that contribute to issues their body is having.

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Strengthen Your Spine: Understanding Spinal Mobility

In order to successfully strengthen your spine, it's important to account for asymmetries that are present when you train. You can build muscle on a twisted frame, but in the long run, you eventually need to untwist yourself to have a healthy functioning spine.

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Weight Bearing Exercise for Bone Health: How You Do It Matters

Weight bearing exercise and resistance training are often recommended to people who may be at risk of decreasing bone density due to numerous factors.

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Dublin City Marathon 2025: Better Biomechanics For a Better Race

With the Dublin City Marathon fast approaching, people will be training hard and upping their mileage in preparation for the last weekend in October. Unfortunately, what can often come with this increase in load and distance is injury and training setbacks.

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Back Pain in GAA Players: Improve Posture, Enhance Performance

Back pain is becoming a more common issue among GAA players in Ireland, with studies showing that 30% – 50% of athletes will experience back pain at some point during their career. It’s difficult to suggest why, but it seems modern training practices seem to be a big contributor.

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Functional Patterns Dublin Head to Skibbereen Co. Cork

Our team hit the road this weekend and headed to Skibbereen Co. Cork. A hugely successful weekend assessing and introducing people to FP

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Integration Over Isolation: A Systematic Approach to Health

Tom discusses integration vs isolation as it relates to training and rehabilitation, and what a systems vs symptoms approach looks like.

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Maximizing Your Results: Follow up Sessions

Watch what happens during follow up sessions at FP Dublin. Develop your skills and progress your training with the guidance of our team

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Sciatica or Biomechanical Pain? How to Tell The Difference

Sciatica is one of the most misdiagnosed issues we see today. Anytime someone presents with pain that radiates or travels down their leg, they are told that it’s likely sciatica. GP’s often make this mistake without any imaging or testing to support their hypothesis.

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How Better Posture Can Help Relieve Migraines

While migraines can be varied and come in many forms, could it be possible to dull their effects by working on your posture and the way you move.

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Top Causes of Joint Pain in Irish People and How to Treat Them

Approximately 23% of adults worldwide experience some form of joint or musculoskeletal pain with the number on this rise. The most common areas of the body that seem to cause people the most problems are the knees, hips, back, shoulders and neck.

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The Link Between Bad Posture, Movement, and Anxiety

Exercise is often seen as a tool for managing anxiety, but would it be better to focus on how we move rather than how much?.

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The 2 Biggest Problems With Deadlifts: Asymmetry & Instability

Do you currently have deadlifts included in your training regime? This exercise holds it's place as one of the three big compound lifts done by many.

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Initial Assessment 101: Understanding your Bodies Needs

In this video we outline the assessment process, what is involved, and how we structure your first session at Functional Patterns Dublin..

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Meet the Team: Getting to know the Practitioners at FP Dublin

Get to know our team of practitioners in this short video where we outline what got us into Functional Patterns as well as our backgrounds.

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Reclaim Your Shoulder Health: Fixing Scapular Winging For Good

One of the biggest indicators of poor shoulder health is scapular winging. It can also be a symptom of poor pelvic and ribcage alignment, and while not always symptomatic, can normally be paired with some sort of back discomfort due to poor stacking in the body.

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How Better Posture Can Improve Pectus Excavatum: Eoin’s Story

Pectus Excavatum is an issue that presents as a "sunken chest" and is traditionally thought to be a birth defect and untreatable..

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Functional Patterns: A Holistic Approach to Solving Low Back Pain

Today, 1 in 4 people suffer from back pain and it is estimated that 80% of people will experience back pain at some point in their lives.

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Tensegrity: What Does it Mean for Your Training?

Tensegrity is a combination of the words tension and integrity. It refers to the collective muscle tension that holds the body together.

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Back Pain Recovery: How Pete Overcame a Bulging Disc

Hear Pete's story outlining how he overcame backpain and bulging discs by using the Functional Patterns system..

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What is Functional Training: The Real Story

For training to truly be considered as functional, it must objectively improve functions the body has been designed to execute.

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What Happens After Your Initial Assessment?

This is a question we often get asked, and one that can have a few different answers depending totally on individual client circumstances..

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What are Functional Patterns Fundamentals?

Functional Patterns Fundamentals form the basis of the first few sessions when a new clients starts with us..

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No More Runners Knee: Lorna’s Successful Return to Running

Watch Lorna's video testimonial to hear her story, and find out how she used Functional Patterns to overcome chronic knee pain.

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Stephen’s Personal Journey with Functional Patterns

Since beginning Functional Patterns Stephen has made massive upgrades to his structure. Check out his before and after..

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Osteitis Pubis Resolved: Is Posture a big Piece of the Puzzle?

Seamus came to us in Feb 2022. He was dealing with suspected osteitis pubis and was totally unable to play soccer as a result..

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Scoliosis Improvements with Functional Patterns

Emma arrived to FP Dublin with a host of issues due to her scoliosis. Check out the improvements she made to her posture here..

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What is Self-Myofascial Release?

Myofascial release is the process of releasing or breaking up adhesions found in the layers between the muscle and fascia (myofascia)..

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Why is Postural Analysis Important?

Have you ever had your posture analyzed? This information is a crucial starting point if we want to improve the way we move..

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What is Video Gait Analysis and Why Do We Do It?

Video Gait analysis is the process of recording a slow motion video of someone walking or running. We start every assessment with this..

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Are we Disrespecting the Evolutionary Blueprint?

The human body has evolved over millions of years with a biological imperative, prioritizing standing, walking, running and throwing..

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The Evolution of the Human Body & the FP First 4

Standing, walking, running, and throwing are the primary movements that have shaped the evolution of the human body over millions of years.

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Six Month Posture & Mass Gains

Check out Daniel's posture and mass gains in this before and after. Made over 6 months using the Functional Patterns training method..

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ACL Recovery: Gait Before & After

Great progress here from soccer player Luke. He had previously ruptured his ACL, and wanted to understand the underlying movement issues..

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Pelvic Stability Improvements After 18 Months of FP

Check out Functional Patterns practitioner Tom's personal results using FP. He had massive pelvic instability after years of poor training..

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Knee Pain Case Study: Patellar Tendentious Rehab

John is a GAA footballer and would have pain in his knees following any running. We identified the root issue and he is now back to his best.

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Low Back Pain in GAA: Biomechanics are Key

Here is a snapshot at Evan’s progress over 18 months using Functional Patterns. He has made some huge changes to his running mechanics..

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