The upshot: if stability toward your center is lost, the body will compensate by locking up something farther out on the extremities. #Repost @themovementmaestro (@get_repost) ・・・ Dm #528: You want that distal mobility back? Go get yourself some proximal stability. --- Remember, folks, in the absence of prolonged immobilization or direct trauma, loss of mobility at an area is typically preceded by loss of stability somewhere else. What does this mean? It means that pain and tightness or symptoms not causes. --- Had a course attendee today tell me she has a patient who has had both knees replaced both hips replaced and is working on his shoulders. 🙈 She then proceeded to tell me that his bed mobility is atrocious. Coincidence? I think not. The poor bed mobility (ability to roll, turn, transfer in and out of bed) is not caused by the joint replacements, but rather, the other way around. The poor bed mobility is caused by poor core STABILITY, and that crappy core stability has lead to joint replacements. --- This lack of core stability has been compensated for by locking down of joints. Why? Because the easiest way to provide stability to an areais to take away mobility from somewhere else. Multiply this by years and years, and suddenly you've worn down a joint so much that you need a replacement. That false stability you've provided your system comes at a cost. --- So, I repeat, pain and tightness or symptoms, joint a replacement (barring congenital issues) fix symptoms. You must go back find, fix, and address the cause. Mobility is the apartment, stability is your rent. You can break in, but the only way you're staying there is if you pay up. Plain and simple. --- Daily Maestroisms dropping every night at 7pm-ish PST. Get yours. Like it? Repost it. Don't understand it? Hit me up and get #Maestrofied. ---------------------------------------------- Be sure to follow The Movement Maestro on FB, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube for all things #movement related. Come move with the Maestro. (at L.A. Sports Acupuncture)