Zoom out in order to zoom in
The reductionist viewpoint has always made life seem simpler, but what happens when it doesn’t ?
If we over simplify it can often lead to a diagnosis to a pain, however maybe doesn’t give the reasons why …
A common example I often use is one of a car.
‘If your car engine blows, you replace it because it 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲, but then the engine blows again,
𝗨𝗻𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗸𝘆 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 ? Okay so you get a third engine, sh*t that one’s gone too.
So you look to see what’s 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝘄… 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘩𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵 🤦🏼♂️.
So you take the potato out, and the engine works like a dream.
We need to find your potato 🥔’
So if we zoom straight with *𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲* 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻 in the local tissue, tendon, joint might be where is being overloaded, but going back to the car analogy …
𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹 , on an ankle is stiff and the knee is doing all the work
That’s why we need a bit of both,
At the end of the day the car needs an engine - like your body needs it’s parts to work
𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝘇𝗼𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 and we find the leak in the system.
That’s where global assessments for movement are so powerful, we see how someone moves as a whole person
Then that allows us to zoom in again to what we need to influence.
So if you have pain somewhere in the body and the direct treatment isn’t working
Remember 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙤