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DM #551

Saturday, November 25th, 2017

DM #551: First the parts, then the whole.
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Let’s not sit her and debate the difference between strength and stability. The point of this DM is is to simply discuss the notion of isolation before integration. A good friend hit me up today asking about some knee rehab ideas for a patient with an upcoming trail run. My suggestion? Make sure the parts work and THEN make sure that they can work together.
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When addressing dysfunction we should remember two things:
1: The position of dysfunction is a position of stolen strength and stability.
2: To improve the dysfunctional pattern you must regress the pattern.
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What the heck am I talking about? People don’t just fall into dysfunctional positions for no reason. For whatever the reason may be, your nervous system feels safer in that position, finds strength in that position, and thus defaults to that position. So, if you want to retrain that pattern to be less dysfunctional you’ve got to figure out the why. From there, we hone in on the weak link, address that, then reintroduce the pattern, but in a regressed position. Why? Because working on the thing, to get better at the thing, only works if you can already do the thing ?.
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Did I lose you? If your knee hurts when you run, running more isn’t going to make your knee feel better. Gotta to back, figure out WHY that knee hurts, address that (strengthen what needs strengthening, mobilize what needs mobilizing), and THEN begin reintroducing running…gradually. The equation is simple. Isolation, then integration.
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