Why It Hurts... There

A question I get over and over especially from clients with joint pain is this. “If it hurts here, (pointing to an elbow or shoulder or hip or knee…you get the idea), why are you working there, (pointing to their bicep, tricep, quad, hamstring or calf muscle)? Then I find the tissue that is pulling across the joint that is causing the imbalance/pain, push into it and then they scream. Then they (usually) understand. If they still don’t get it I use this illustration. I have them grab a lock of their own hair, (okay, sometimes I grab their hair), have them pull on it and ask them if their head hurts now. “Yes.” I ask if their head is the problem or is the fact that they are pulling on the hair that attaches to their head the problem. “Oh! Yeah, that makes sense!” The point is that you will almost always feel pain at the place a muscle attaches, not in the ‘belly’ of the muscle which is why most peoples’ pain is “in the joint.”

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