04/11/2019
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“There are so many things that we do in our everyday life that can potentially give us discomfort when we overdo them but we don't classify them as detrimental. I recently went backpacking with my girlfriend in Europe for almost three weeks and we walked an average of 15 miles after only maybe doing 5 miles a day prior. Our body ached but we didn't think walking was bad for us.
A lot of what we think is detrimental stems from social learning that occurs from friends or maybe people who we perceive to be an authority figure(parents, teachers, etc). Common examples that we hear in the rehab field are "make sure you pick up the box correctly or you'll hurt yourself", "leg extensions are bad for your knees", "my pelvis is too anteriorly pelvic tilted", etc.
Most of these narratives don't necessarily have any evidence behind them but when you begin to feel certain sensations as a result from performing those activities or sustaining certain positions, you begin to attribute THAT to the sole reason of your discomfort. The truth is that A LOT of what we do can be painful if the applied load is greater than the tissue tolerance. Another way to mitigate that is changing positions but if you don't have variability then you're going to overload one position.
This doesn’t make the movement or the position BAD. With that logic, we shouldn't be doing a lot of things that we deem are "good". Just some food for thought.”
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