17/11/2025
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💫 Post-Surgery Follow-Up: Healing Isn’t Passive — It’s Participatory
I had my surgical follow-up today.
A big thumbs up from the team:
“This is healing wonderfully. Any pain? Any trouble anywhere?”
All good news.
But here’s the interesting part…
I didn’t explain what I do — not in depth anyway.
Because yes, the fracture needs time.
Yes, the tissue damage needs biology’s timeline.
But everything around the injury still matters.
Your brain doesn’t heal you in isolation.
Your movement patterns, your breathing, your posture, your reflexes —
all of them either support healing or make it harder.
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👃 My Nasal Breathing Has Improved
But here’s the nuance:
Nasal breathing in a stationary body is almost pointless.
It doesn’t trigger its own pattern generator.
It just sits there — like a dormant circuit with no spark.
But when you place nasal breathing inside movement —
laying → sitting → transitioning → walking with focus
everything lights up.
Suddenly the brain is paying attention.
The ribs expand.
The diaphragm lifts.
The vagus, trigeminal, and phrenic pathways switch on.
Cognition sharpens.
The whole body participates in healing.
That’s when nasal breathing becomes actionable.
That’s when recovery becomes intelligent.
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🧠 Healing the Local Injury Means Supporting the Global System
A fracture needs stillness.
But the rest of the body needs integrity.
If you let the rest of the system shut down —
• joints compress
• muscles deactivate
• breath stays shallow
• movement patterns deteriorate
• your brain goes into “protection mode”
And that slows everything.
My job — and what I teach — is maintaining
the rest of the body’s competence
while the injured site heals.
This is where true recovery evolves.
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🏥 Cleared for Light Duties
The surgeon has cleared me to slowly return to work.
One-hour sessions only,
starting Wednesday.
I’m grateful.
And I’m ready.
If you need help —
Firstly hands on overhaul but then your HW
ACTIONABLE APPLIED WORK
with walking, breathing, pain, pattern generators, movement confidence,
or simply resetting the whole system after your own injury, fatigue, or overload —
holla.
This is what I do.
And I’d be honoured to help you reconnect your whole body again.