Run Free
If you are a runner looking for an edge, something that will help you run faster, longer and more free, visualize your fascia when you run.
With your mind’s eye, imagine every step transmitting the force of your impact from your great toe, diagonally through the plantar arch, to the outside of your heel as it travels up into your leg. Imagine this as part of a spiral line that creates the diamond of your calf muscle, crossing over to attach to the inside of your knee, pulling on your ACL and crossing over to the outside of your femur, moving up your IT band on its way to your hip.
Feel the criss-crossing movement of your pelvis, from left to right, with your tailbone as the keystone at the base of your spine. Imagine your pelvis pulling on your ribcage, tethering to your scapula in the front and back, and crossing the midline again to your neck and TMJ. See these twisting pillars of connective tissue that link coccyx and sacrum, xiphoid and sternum, occiput and cranium. Your body is a machine, and this is how it is built. This is how you move.
This whole-body approach to biomechanics is called tensegrity, a new paradigm for anatomy and physiology, linking structure and function, with spiral lines weaving from right to left, front to back, transmitting rotational forces along the entire vertebral column of the spine. From this perspective, treating pain in your foot, your ankle, your hip or your knee without treating the rest of the line seems absurd.
Every injury you have ever sustained has the potential to distort the alignment of these spiral lines, creating tension, inflammation and stress in joints, tendons and ligaments, that buckle and strain under these increased forces. Injuries heal, but that healing is never 100.0% complete. Sensitized nerves and residual tissue changes can create tension, inflammation and stress in these local areas, and in the psycho-immuno-neuro-endocrine (PINE) system that regulates the body as a whole.
Neural therapy is a little-known approach that targets these lesions, called interference fields, with injections of local anesthetics. As the President of the North American Academy of Neural Therapy (www.NAANT.org), I see the lesion as far more important than the therapy. I want chiropractors, physical therapists, acupuncturists and any other provider to consider every place where tissue damage has occurred as low-hanging fruit for healing.
This is an approach I call Blockage-Based Care. The hypothesis that these blockages can contribute to a wide range of chronic diseases is logical and scientific, and while it is a major part of many of the world’s healing traditions, it is totally absent from modern healthcare. If it is correct, it represents a major advance in the history of medicine.
This is a new way of understanding how the human body is built, how it functions and how it moves, in health and disease. If it is correct, it represents a major advance in the history of medicine.
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