Daily Maestroism

DM #309

Tuesday, March 28th, 2017

DM #309: The nervous system ALWAYS wants to feel safe. Even if that’s at the expense of your mobility and perhaps even some pain.
If you didn’t have an injury, surgery, or some kind of prolonged immobilization like a cast, joints just don’t lock down for no reason. If you’ve got stiffness, tightness, or an area just keeps ‘locking down’, there’s a REASON! That’s your body’s way of telling you that you’ve lost stability, somewhere, and it’s trying to help you out.

Don’t have such good ‘core’ stability? Well, you could always just use your back and lock down your SI-joint and find a tremendous amount of strength and stability. Don’t have such good midfoot stability? Well, how about if we just collapse through that arch, lock up that ankle, and suddenly we’ve found a way to create a rigid structure off of which to propel ourselves.
When things get tight, stiff, and locked down, that’s less movement that your nervous system has to control, which means it is more stabile. However, clearly that stability comes at a cost. Wearing down of joints. Pain. Loss of mobility. You get the picture.
So, once again, the take home message becomes: treat the symptoms but find and address the cause. Mobilize that ankle. Mobilize that thoracic spine. But figure out why it got ‘locked down’ in the first place. Remember, where you think it is, it ain’t.

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