Dr. Hector Martinez

01/30/2026

Most people think the spine is just about back pain.
It’s not.

Your spine houses your spinal cord. That’s the connection between your brain and everything else.

When your spine stops moving well, your body compensates. Adapts. Works harder than it should.

That shows up in ways you wouldn’t expect.
Sleep gets worse because you can’t relax. Breathing gets shallow because your ribs can’t expand.

Headaches creep in because your neck is doing too much. Energy drops because compensation takes effort.

You’re not broken. You’re just stuck.

When the spine moves the way it’s supposed to, a lot of things can shift. Not because we’re treating all of it directly. But because your body finally has room to function.

This isn’t magic. It’s mechanics.

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01/28/2026

Toughness isn’t the problem. Ignoring signals is.

Your body doesn’t forget pain just because you do. It adapts around it. Shifts the load. Other muscles pick up the slack. Other joints take the hit.

That’s compensation. And it works - until it doesn’t.
Meanwhile your nervous system gets louder. What used to be a 3/10 ache becomes an 8/10 flare. Not because the problem got worse. Because your body got tired of being ignored.

The “tough” ones always take longer to fix. Not because they’re broken worse. Because they waited until broken was the only option left.

Strength is listening before it gets that far.

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01/27/2026

There are two ways to approach your body.

Wait until something breaks. Treat the pain. Go back to life. Wait for it to break again.

That’s pain care. Reactive. Symptom-focused. A cycle.
Or you stay ahead of it. Optimize. Prevent. Perform.

That’s performance care. Proactive. Function-focused. A different game entirely.

Most people live in pain care mode. They don’t think about their body until it screams at them.

The ones who stay active, stay sharp, stay ahead?

They chose performance care a long time ago.

Which one sounds like the life you want?

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01/26/2026

You’re not broken. You’re stuck.

Something hurt. You stopped moving. Your body tightened up to protect you.

Now it hurts worse than before. Not because of damage. Because of the cycle.

Fear. Avoidance. Stiffness. More pain. More fear.
It feeds itself.

Breaking it isn’t complicated. But it takes the right approach.

Education first. Understand that pain doesn’t always mean damage.

Then gradual movement. Safe. Guided. Building trust back with your body.

Adjustments to restore what got stuck along the way.
Strengthening so the cycle doesn’t start again.

That’s how you break free.

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01/25/2026

You’re probably doing at least three of these right now.
And you don’t even realize what they’re costing you.

Here’s what I stopped doing after I became the body mechanic:

1️⃣ Cracking my own neck. That pop you’re chasing? It’s the joints that already move too much. The ones actually stuck? They don’t budge. You’re creating instability where you don’t need it. And the relief gets shorter every time.

2️⃣ Sitting for 8 hours straight. Your joints lock up. Your muscles shorten. Your posture collapses. And by 3pm you’re stiff and wondering why. Your spine was never designed for this. It’s adapting. Badly.

3️⃣ Carrying everything on one shoulder. Same side. Every single day. Your body compensates. One hip hikes. One shoulder drops. You’re training asymmetry into your frame and calling it convenience.

4️⃣ Sleeping on my stomach. Your neck rotated 90 degrees for 8 hours. Your lower back arched with no support. You wake up stiff and blame the mattress. It’s not the mattress.

5️⃣ Relying on the massage gun. It feels amazing. But a tight muscle is often protecting a joint that isn’t moving. You’re treating the symptom. The restriction underneath? Still there.

👆 These aren’t rules I read somewhere. They’re things I stopped doing once I understood what they were actually doing.

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01/24/2026

01/23/2026

You’re still showing up. That’s the problem.

Nobody sees what it’s taking to get there.

The sleep you didn’t get because you couldn’t find a position that worked.

The coworker you snapped at. Not because of them.
The task you quietly passed off because you knew what it would cost you physically.

The meeting where you checked out halfway through. Body in the chair. Mind somewhere else.

The sick day that wasn’t really a sick day.

You’re working. But you’re working twice as hard to deliver half as much.

And the only person who knows is you.
That’s exhausting in a way that doesn’t show up on a performance review.

Comment PRODUCTIVITY if you’ve been carrying this.

01/21/2026

I get it. You’ve handled it yourself this long.

The stretches. The hot packs. The massage gun at night. It’s worked well enough for years.

Until it didn’t.

Now your back goes out doing nothing. You’re stuck on the couch wondering what happened.

Here’s the thing. You didn’t suddenly get worse. Your body just ran out of ways to compensate.

20 years of dysfunction doesn’t get fixed in one visit. There’s no popping it back into place. That’s not how spines work.

The people I can help are the ones who are done putting band-aids on a problem that keeps coming back. The ones who want to actually understand why their back keeps failing them.

If you’re still hoping for a quick fix after years of this, I’m probably not your guy.

But if you’re ready for a different approach, save this.