Balanced Beast

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Challenge end ranges, exhaust mid ranges

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Ligaments aren’t just passive stability.

They are sensory organs that connect your joints to your central nervous system.

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Something that “feels” inflamed is usually not inflamed.

Those are just symptoms and signals from your body that you are interpreting as inflammation.

Joints and tissues creating symptomatic inflammation is not as common as you’d think.

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A loss of motion can be from a soft tissue restriction, a joint derangement, a joint articular dysfunction.

All three of these conditions are significantly different in how much pain to push into, the type of stretch to do, and the speediness of improvement.

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If rest makes your symptoms worse, you may be missing a spinal component contributing to your pain.

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If you have a big shot of pain upon rising after sitting for a long time, there is a BIG chance that you are dealing nerve/lumbar pain, not leg or hip pain.

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Tightness Sensation ≠ Loss of Mobility

If something feels tight, that is a sensation, not a loss of motion.

Many times stretching into “tight” directions won’t resolve the issue and can sometimes actually make the tightness worse in the long run.

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Back Pain:

Normal?
No

Common?
Yes

Serious?
No, unless you don’t take care of it correctly.

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Most PTs go into PT with a passion to help people and a hunger for knowledge.

The system chews up PTs through a focus on quantity VS quality.

We end up with a bunch of zombie clinicians who are under slept and overworked with the expectations to change people’s lives.

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Our body is shaped by the accumulative movements, positions, postures, and shapes we put it through on a daily basis

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You can get pain free relatively quickly in many cases, but getting back to full activities, exercising without pain, and preventing a recurrence usually requires extensive habit changes with lifestyle, strength training, and general health changes.

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You are with your PT one hour a week, which leaves 167 hours for the rest of the week.

If you rely on that one hour to fix all your issues and you’re not mobilizing and strengthening at home, you will most likely will not see improvements. At best, you may be able to maintain.

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Tip for consistent workouts: Don’t judge your motivation.

If looking good for your upcoming trip or event gets you into the gym, then who care about the “why”.

You’ll still get the other psychological, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal benefits no matter your motivation.

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Sometimes it’s the intention behind the treatment, not the type of treatment, that is important.

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Mobility needs to be dosed like strengthening.

Keep in mind intensity, duration, frequency.

We also want to think about balancing our stretches in all directions to keep our joints healthy and unobstructed.

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Movement is like nutrition.

A well balanced movement diet provides a variety of stimuli that keeps our musculoskeletal system healthy.

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The nervous system doesn't know tissue damage, it knows inputs and perceived threat.

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Pain free movement is a privilege.

This privilege is hard earned by learning about your body, listening to it, and taking care of it.

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When the disc moves in the spine, so does facet joints, joint capsules, ligaments, muscles, tendons, fascia, bones, synovial fluid, nerves, even the segments above and below.

The disc model is good at explaining a lot of spine pain, but it's much more complex than one tissue.

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Physical Therapy is beyond just physical stimulus.

Soft tissue work, cupping, joint mobilizations and manipulations, activation exercises, facilitation, these are all just different ways of providing stimuli to the nervous system to influence change on the complex system.