Move Well, Feel Stronger, Live Pain Free

The last thing we want to do is chase pain and symptoms. But, what do you do when you are sore, achey, tight, or even injured?

How do you rehab or prehab your movement before starting a program and how do you maintain it during a program?

If your knee hurts, do you focus on the knee? If your back hurts do you ice it and lay around waiting for it to subside only for it to return suddenly?

The beauty of the body, is that it is all connected. Throughout our body and system, we are made up of interchanges of mobility and stability. Through the chain that goes from our toes up to our head, we have groups of muscles one connected to another. Each plays a role, and each acts on the other.

We often look at a pronated foot as an issue with the ankle or foot. But remember, the chain continues up through the body. An issue further up the chain could result in a symptom elsewhere.

Sometimes we call this referred pain. For example, when youre having a heart attack, majority of us know you experience arm pain. Same is true for movement, but not only with referred pain, but referred compensations if you will.

Compensations are our bodies way of taking the path of least resistance. Compensations could be from bad habits, injury, weakness, or dysfunction. Someone who sits at a desk 40 hours per week will adapt and compensate to have tight hip flexors, etc. This will cause issues in other places like weak glutes. The body then has to compensate around those weak glutes, recruiting other muscles. These compensations can be visual and referred from a weakness elsewhere in the chain.


Dont always look at knee pain as an issue or dysfunction in the knee. A headache is not always stemming in the neck or shoulders.  Shin splints are not issues in the "shin".

Make quality movement a priority over quantity. Avoid chasing symptoms and look at the body as an entire system that relies on itself for optimal function. You may be surprised what you find when your intentions shift from calories and reps, to movement and strength.

Move Better, Feel Stronger, Live Pain Free.

Yours in Strength,
Kris

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