Posture Therapy Training: Your First Week With Function Rx

Adding a service usually comes with a course to take, an exam to pass, and months before the first client.

Posture therapy training with Function Rx is shorter than that, because you aren’t learning to design the programs. Our team does that part.

Here’s what your first week looks like → from signing up to sending in your first assessment.

Posture Therapy Training: What You Learn, and What You Don’t

Let’s keep it simple. Offering posture therapy through Function Rx doesn’t require a new certification.

The reason is the split of work. The slow part of any corrective exercise method is learning to read a body and build a program for it. That takes specialized training, and it’s the part we do for you.

What you learn:

• How to take the assessment photos
• How to read a sequence when it comes back
• How the four sequences build on each other
• How to explain posture therapy to a client

What you don’t have to learn:

• How to analyze the photos
• How to choose and order the exercises
• How to progress a client from week to week

Exercise itself isn’t new to most practices. A national survey found that 98% of chiropractors already use corrective or therapeutic exercise, as reported by Foot Levelers. You’re adding a method and a team to something you already do.

One note on your license. You offer posture therapy within your own scope of practice. If you’re unsure what that covers, check the rules for your profession and your state.

The Four Steps of Your First Week

Here’s the breakdown.

1. We onboard your clinic. Your practice is set up on the platform, with a dashboard for assessments, approvals, and client progress.
2. You onboard your practitioners. Each person who’ll take part gets their own access.
3. You review the resources. Short guides cover the basics of posture therapy, how to take the photos, and how to read a sequence. Our team is there for questions along the way.
4. You submit your first assessment. You take a set of posture photos of one client and send them in.

All four steps can be done in a single day. A week gives you room to fit them around a full schedule.

A good first client is someone you know well, whose results haven’t held. You’ll learn the process on a case where you can judge the change yourself.

Your First Assessment and Your First Sequence

The assessment is a set of photos. Your client stands naturally, then holds a few simple test positions.

A few details make the photos usable:

• Barefoot, so the feet and ankles show
• Fitted clothing, so the body’s outline is clear
• Ear and ankle bone visible in the side views
• Standing the way they normally stand, with no attempt to straighten up

It can take as little as ten minutes. If you’d like the assessment to be its own paid appointment, you can take 30 to 45 minutes and walk the client through what you see.

The first sequence comes back within 24 to 48 hours. It reaches you before it reaches your client, so you can check that it’s right for them. If something doesn’t fit, our team changes it.

That’s where your clinical judgment stays in charge. We build the program, and you decide whether it suits your client.

What Happens After the First Week

From there, the rhythm is steady.

• The client does one sequence a day at home. About 20 minutes is typical, and each sequence is built to the time that client can give daily.
• A new sequence arrives about once a week, built from how the last one went. You see each one before your client does.
• You or our virtual trainers take the client through the exercises. You can choose client by client.
• After four sequences, a reassessment shows what changed, with add-on sequences for clients who continue.

It works the same way across settings:

• A chiropractic or physical therapy clinic starts with a few existing clients.
• A personal trainer starts with one client whose pain keeps interrupting training.
• A workplace wellness provider starts with a single team or site.

A clinic subscription keeps all of it in one place. If you’re wondering how to raise it with clients, see introducing posture therapy to your clients. If staff time is the worry, see chiropractic staffing.

For the full picture, start with our guide to adding corrective exercise to a chiropractic practice.

See how it works for practitioners → functionrx.health/practitioners

From months of coursework before your first client → to your first assessment in your first week.