07/05/2025
The answer: a nervous system in a sympathetic (fight or flight) response.
When there’s no acute injury, ongoing illness, or active stressor, persistent symptoms like pain, tightness, or reduced mobility are rarely the true issue - they’re signals. The real problem is often deeper: your CNS is responding to a perceived threat, even if that threat no longer exists. Or a lack of parasympathetic stimulation over a period of time.
If you’re constantly needing to stretch, foam roll, or get massages just to feel normal or continue training - and the relief never lasts - it’s because your nervous system still feels unsafe. It hasn’t received the input it needs to stand down.
That threat may lie in the area of discomfort, or it could stem from something completely different - even from a separate system entirely, like retained primitive reflexes for one example. Perhaps your proprioceptive, visual and vestibular systems need some recalibration/integration.
This is why we always start with the nervous system. It drives everything else. And when it’s regulated, the rest of the body follows.
If this resonates with you (or your grumpy, dysregulated neighbour) feel free to DM, call or book in via the website.
