FINDING THE TRUE SOURCE OF PAIN

FINDING THE TRUE SOURCE

This talented athlete was about to give up on sports. She had tried it all & was presented with a pretty nasty surgery as her only “potential” option. I remember how distraught she and her mom were at the idea of seeing her talent, source of joy and passion go out the window at such a young age. The issue was obvious to me. Her calves were working WAY TOO HARD. Stretching, rest, and massage weren’t succeeding because the source of her calf overuse was still there. Her diaphragm was inefficient. Her back extensors, quads and neck muscles were all also overactive. All of this was keeping her center of mass way too far forward. IT WASN’T THE CALVES FAULT. I got her to breathe efficiently, bringing her center of mass back where it belonged and allowed her calves to finally take a breath. Literally - the tension had been cutting off the blood supply to the legs! A little retraining to shift and rotate her body appropriately - from heel to head - and she was back to tearing up the track… and doing what she loved.

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