Windy City Performance Posture
Welcome to Windy City Performance Posture! Whether you are an athlete who wants to prevent injury and achieve peak performance, someone who is recovering from an injury, or a person dealing with chronic pain, functional movement therapy can help your body move more effectively and efficiently. Working together, we can design a personalized program that helps you achieve your movement goals.
The Importance of Posture
Good posture is about more than just standing up straight. It’s about your joints being properly aligned: are your shoulders over your hips, your hips over your knees, your knees over your ankles? If one of your joints is out of alignment, the resulting poor posture can lead to other joints and muscle groups compensating for that misalignment. This imbalance is a precursor to chronic pain and injury. By restoring proper balance and alignment, you can reduce chronic pain, lower your risk of injury, and improve athletic performance and efficiency.
What Is Posture Therapy?
Posture therapy is a method of analyzing how your joints align with one another and developing
targeted exercises to achieve an optimal alignment of the skeletal structures in your body. We work
with you to design a menu of exercises to correct your specific alignment issues.
Posture therapy is different from other types of movement therapy because your symptoms aren’t the key factor in developing an effective program. Rather than focusing on symptoms, posture therapy addresses the root cause of the symptom by aligning ALL the joints in your body. By improving posture, you are addressing the root cause of your chronic pain and susceptibility to injury. Optimizing your
posture will help you get out of the training room without wasting effort focusing on fixing recurring symptoms from poor musculoskeletal alignment.
How We Work
We are here to help your body perform at its highest level, free from injury and pain. We start with a one-on-one conversation about your specific concerns and goals, then conduct an assessment to identify your unique functional issues. With that input, we design a program of targeted exercises that will bring your body back into proper alignment.
Like any program, actually doing the exercises is the key to success. We meet with you regularly to ensure the selected exercises are working for you, and we change them up so you don’t get bored.
Sessions can be in person or by video conference.
About Connor Bedell
I’m Connor Bedell, owner of Windy City Performance Posture. I learned about posture therapy during a college summer internship in Texas. The owner of the sports performance training facility where I worked was a certified postural alignment therapist, and as I watched him work with high school, college and professional athletes, I was fascinated with the methods and the results I saw.
I played high-level travel baseball from a young age, and by age 15 I was considered a legitimate D-1 college baseball pitching prospect. My identical twin brother had the same dream, and I’m proud to say he was a high school All American, a standout pitcher at University of Missouri, and now pitches in the St. Louis Cardinals organization. However, three elbow surgeries in high school derailed my plans and left me unable to throw without pain. I wondered what impact postural therapy might have had in my own life as an athlete.
My internship supervisor showed me a series of postural alignment exercises targeted at realigning my shoulders and hips. I was amazed at the difference even a few repetitions created –for the first time in eight years, I was able to throw a baseball without pain. I learned that as you change the position of your body, you are able to move more efficiently, minimizing pain and increasing performance. That experience led me to decide I wanted a career helping people avoid injury and improve their body’s performance.
What Our Clients Say
"I move better and throw harder with less effort"
"My shoulder used to hurt after every baseball game. After 3 weeks with Connor, my shoulder pain has disappeared and my performance has improved. I am moving better and I throw harder with less effort!"
"Thanks to Connor, I live a pain free life with no prescription meds"
"There are no words to describe how my quality of life has improved!. It is amazing to live a pain free life and ditch the excessive amounts of Advil I used to take."
"From chronic pain when walking to going on runs with my daughter"
"I didn't think I would have made the progress I have. I used to have chronic pain that affected me in all areas of life and I was unable to walk more than 15 minutes without pain. Thanks to Connor's work, I hike, ski, workout regularly, and even get to run with my daughter without any pain! Connor goes above and beyond with his clients to provide the best posture therapy you could ask for."
"My back is stronger than ever and I live a pain free life!"
"Working with Connor helped me say goodbye to back pain! I used to struggle to sit for prolonged periods, affecting my work and quality of life. Now I live a pain free life and can do activities I haven't done in years!"
Contact Windy City Performance Posture
Appointments available in person or online
In Person Sessions At the Bradley Fieldhouse in Chicago
