Recurring niggles
The same back, hip, shoulder or other problem seems to appear during or after golf.
Body Unity M.O.T.
Golfer's
Golfer's
M.O.T.
Understand your body. Keep doing what you love.
A head-to-toe physical assessment for golfers, designed to identify relevant restrictions, understand recurring problems and give you a clear plan for what to work on next.
Individual assessment with the Body Unity osteopathic team in Hemel Hempstead.
Our role
We assess the golfer. Not the golf swing.
We're here to understand the body producing the movement — not to coach your swing, analyse your technique or tell you how to play golf.
No swing coaching. No swing analysis.
Assess
Understand how your body moves
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Identify
Find what may actually be relevant
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Act
Treat, rebuild or simply advise
A physical M.O.T. for golfers
Golf asks a lot from your body. Let's understand how yours is coping.
The Golfer's M.O.T. looks at the person behind the game — your movement, mobility, strength, control, symptoms, previous injuries and physical capacity — then helps determine whether anything actually needs attention.
Who it's for
You don't need to be injured to understand your body better.
The Golfer's M.O.T. can be useful whether something is bothering you now or you simply want a clearer picture of how your body is functioning.
Feeling stiff
Particular areas feel restricted before, during or after playing.
Returning after injury
Things have settled, but you want more confidence before returning fully to golf.
18 holes feels demanding
Your body becomes increasingly uncomfortable or fatigued as the round progresses.
Something feels limited
You know something doesn't move comfortably, but you're not sure whether it matters or what to do about it.
Proactive check-up
Nothing is particularly wrong. You simply want a thorough assessment of how your body is functioning.
We assess the golfer
Your body and your golf are connected. But they aren't the same thing.
Your golf professional works on your game. We work on the body you're asking to play it.
We can assess movement, joints, muscular function, mobility, balance, strength, control, symptoms and previous injuries.
What we don't do is tell you what your swing should look like.
Different expertise. Same golfer.
Where useful, the physical information you gain from your M.O.T. can sit alongside the technical work you do with your golf professional.
What we look at
A head-to-toe assessment, shaped around you.
It isn't a rigid golf checklist. We select the tests that are relevant to your history, symptoms and what you're trying to do.
Feet & ankles
Mobility, comfort and lower-limb movement.
Hips & pelvis
Hip mobility, control and relevant restriction or discomfort.
Lower back
Lumbar movement, symptoms and tolerance to physical demand.
Upper back
Thoracic movement and comfortable rotational capacity.
Shoulders
Shoulder movement, control and previous injury where relevant.
Rotation
How different areas contribute to comfortable rotational movement.
Balance & control
Relevant balance, stability and movement-control tasks.
Strength & capacity
Where appropriate, whether relevant areas are prepared for what you're asking of them.
The important question
Your golf exposes the demand. We assess your capacity.
We're not searching for a theoretical perfect body or perfect movement pattern.
We're interested in whether anything we find appears relevant to your symptoms, your history, your goals and the demands you're asking your body to tolerate.
A restriction is only useful information
if it matters to you.
Your Golfer's M.O.T.
Assess. Understand. Treat. Plan.
This is a clinical appointment, not simply a fitness screen.
Consultation
We discuss your health, golf, previous injuries, current symptoms and what you want to understand.
Physical assessment
We assess the joints, movement, mobility, strength, balance or control relevant to you.
Test & treat
Where appropriate, osteopathic or manual treatment can be incorporated rather than assessment existing in isolation.
Clear next step
You leave knowing what we've found, what appears relevant and what, if anything, should happen next.
Want to understand what your body is bringing to the course?
Book a Golfer's M.O.T. for an individual physical assessment with the Body Unity osteopathic team.
What happens next?
The assessment should lead somewhere useful.
What happens afterwards depends entirely on what we find.
An important point
Not every golfer needs fixing.
Bodies are different. Differences in movement, mobility or symmetry don't automatically mean something is wrong.
Our job is to decide whether what we find appears relevant to you, your symptoms, your history and what you're asking your body to do. If it isn't relevant, we won't invent a problem.
Staying in our lane
What a Golfer's M.O.T. is not.
We want the boundary to be completely clear.
We can help you understand and work on your body. For technical changes to your swing or game, your golf professional remains the expert.
Not swing coaching
We don't teach golf technique.
Not swing analysis
We don't diagnose your golf swing.
Not club fitting
Equipment remains outside our role.
Golfer's M.O.T.
Know what your body is bringing to the course.
Get a clearer picture of how your body is moving, where relevant restrictions may exist and what, if anything, is worth working on next.
Golfer's M.O.T.
Understand your body
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