02/27/2025
Yesterday I was working with a former D1 College Level Basketball Player, now in her early fifties. She had scatic pain going down both legs. It was a 8 out of 10 level of pain.
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First we started with a drill that specifically targets the sciatic nerve & it gave her some relief. Then we did some sensory testing on a tattoo on her lumbar spine & found that certain directions on her skin made the pain worse & others made it better. Very useful information.
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Neither of these did much for her ability to touch her toes. She was LESS than HALFWAY down her SHINS trying to touch her toes. Combining the sensory work on the tattoo with some pelvic mobility, we started moving in a direction where the pain wasn’t improving.
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So we decided to switch gears. I saw that she had a 3 inch horizontal scar above her left knee from a cyst removal.
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When I went to assess the scar she noted to me that the area is always tight. Upon assessment the area actually moved well up, left, & to the right. But it was “STUCK” when trying to move the skin DOWNWARD.
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While moving this scar downward with my fingers she was now TOUCHING HER TOES!
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In addition, now the SCIATIC PAIN was also GONE!
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PAIN is an output of the BRAIN. Looking only LOCALLY would be a critical MISTAKE.
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