What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. I’m pretty gifted at getting people out of pain because I understand the concept that the body has a protective cycle and a healing cycle. I just need to get you to flip from that protective aspect to the healing aspect. I do that in very innovative and very creative ways of teaching you how to look inward so you can actually shift that aspect of yourself into a more healing state. Today I want to talk to you about why our extremities are more vulnerable to injury. The reason I briefly spoke about in an earlier post I made in the past, where it’s called stability versus mobility, is a humongous principle inside the whole body. Your body is always craving stability. It’s always going to try to make everything very stable, very similar to the Jenga game that we used to play back in the day. If you still play, you know exactly what I’m talking about. In Jenga, as long as there’s something sturdy underneath, the top half starts to waive. You have to make everything as sturdy as possible as you pull out blocks. The body is going to do the same thing, but it’s losing its stability in certain places, so it’s going to make the next thing in line stable.
\nWhat does that mean? I’m always talking about foundations. Your feet, your hips, and your shoulder glide are three major foundations in the body. If your feet are not in line, it’s going to make the next thing sturdy, which is going to be your ankles; your ankles are supposed to be a movable joint. Then, if that’s not working properly, it’s going to stabilize your ankle and make your knees stable, which is already supposed to be stable, so it’s extra stability. It then begins to lock your knees. When we talk about losing flexibility and not moving a joint properly, it’s based off a concept of stability versus mobility. You have to get the thing underneath it to become a nice stable object so you can get the object above it to become more movable.<\/p>\n