Maintenance Before Movement: Tuning Your Body
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Speaker: [00:00:00] When was the last time that you took your body in for a tuneup?
I'm treating this patient right now who has a debilitating low back pain. He, he came to me on the crutches. He couldn't walk and he says that it started because, or after he, he did a lot of walking while on vacation. Now, I mean, he added like four to 5,000 more steps than usual. And when I asked him if, if he were doing any sort of stretching, um, he said yes, but he wasn't doing the stretches that he should have.
Right? So one day he wakes up and he can't walk. Too painful. Uh, nor can he like lie on his stomach or bend backward. [00:01:00] This looks like a disc herniation. Um, but it's not Hip muscles were just too damn tight. Now, fast forward after just one or two sessions, he is walking. He is walking again and he can go without the crutches, but now his quad muscle is so weak that his knee gives away.
Our bodies are going to wither away really, really quickly depending on. Uh, the type of activity or stimulus that we expose it to for this particular individual. There was no maintenance done when he increased his mileage on loosening up his hip flexors and quads and [00:02:00] he did nothing to sort of repair them as they were doing more work.
And then he became so impaired
that when he got back on his feet, the muscles were too weak to support him.
See, even while on crutches, you could still put weight through your leg. He didn't do that. I'm aware of the expression go until the wheels fall off. Well, I'm all for putting 400,000 miles of my car and I plan on doing that with my body.
You need [00:03:00] maintenance done on your body. If you don't know what exactly to do, then I encourage you to book a consult with me at kinesmovement.com and we can figure that out. Until then folks, take ownership of your movement. Do more, wait less, and I'll see you on the next one.
