11/08/2025
‘They told me the stretch was supposed to hurt… so I just kept pushing through it.’
She told us she trusted the process.
The PT said the pain meant progress.
So she gritted her teeth, pushed harder, and hoped the next session would feel better.
It never did.
In fact, things got worse.
Every stretch felt like her body was fighting back.
But instead of being listened to, she was told to “keep going — it’s normal.”
At E3, we don’t believe in pain as a sign of progress.
We believe pain is your body’s way of saying, “something’s not right.”
So we stopped asking her to push through it —
and started asking why her body was guarding in the first place.
Once we found the real issue, the pain stopped fighting her.
Her body started trusting movement again.
And for the first time, she left a session feeling stronger — not sore and defeated.
Our patients tell us that’s the difference.
And this is what we call the root cause.
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