Remember as a kid when you use to hear the song “the knee bone is connected the thigh bone, the thigh bone is connected to the hip bone” and so on…. Well not only have I come to realize that the song is true but it is also soooo much more complicated than that.
Where this comes from
When people get injured, many times will they only try to fix the symptoms but they never try to answer the real question of an injury. What caused this to happen? That is the question, and a good question at that, but it so rarely is answered. Many people only treat the symptom which means if their calf hurts, they treat their calf and only their calf. This approach does not always work well.
The Issue
The calf is connected to so many other parts of the body. Many times the symptom is treated but as soon as you jump back into activity it just hurts again. Why, because something else in your body is having an issue and causing more strain on other parts. If you fix the issue and you treat the symptoms the injury is gone.
My Experience - The Back
Let me take you through an example, an experience of mine. My back had hurt for years and through those years I would get treatment on it. When I got off the table my body was feeling great. The second I got on the track it would slowly revert back to hurting. The reason for this was because I was treating the symptoms. When I started to dig into things a little deeper I started to find the causes of the injury. I found that my hips were extremely tight and my glutes were not firing at all. Our bodies are smart…the major issue with those two things is that to make up for inflexibility and lack of strength my back had to do the majority of the work, explaining why it was always in pain. When I fixed the issues than fixed the symptoms the injury was gone.
Connecting the dots
I am in no way expecting you to be able to connect the dots right away, you need help from a professional who understands the body. Eventually you will begin to see the map of how injuries work. I do not fully understand this; but I do understand that things happen because a chain reaction of problems may be taking action in your body.
