I'm not here to fix you

Something flared up last week.

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Maybe it was the squat session. Maybe you slept weird.

Maybe it just showed up out of nowhere, the way it sometimes does.

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And the first thing you did was reach for your phone to book an appointment.

No judgment. That's what you've been taught to do.

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My thoughts on this:​
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Every time you hand that moment off to someone else, you get a little less capable of handling it yourself.
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You stop trusting your own body. You stop knowing what to do when things flare up.
You start feeling like you can't train, can't push, can't make a single decision without someone else signing off first.

That's not healing. That's just getting managed until the next flare-up.
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Real rehab isn't passive. It's not something that gets done to you on a table.
​The goal should be to give you the tools and understanding to stay out of pain, not just get you out of it for now.
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There's a big difference between relief and actual results. One keeps you coming back.

The other makes you more resilient.

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Talk soon,
Gabe

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P.S. Good rehab should eventually make itself unnecessary. If your current approach doesn't have an exit strategy for you, that tells you everything.
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