What Volleyball Teaches Us About Low Back Pain and the Nervous System
Is Your Nervous System Secretly Sabotaging Your Back? Let’s Find Out!
Imagine your foot, knee, hip, back, shoulder, head are all individual players on a volleyball team and your nervous system is the coach. The coach needs to keep the team playing as efficiently as possible. In the case of life, the nervous system helps you survive by finding the most efficient way for you to move. However, no coach is perfect!
Your nervous system could be the hidden culprit behind your persistent back pain. Intrigued? We’re going to walk through the 7 step process describing how back pain can “come out of nowhere.” We’re going to use the volleyball coach analogy to bring this example to life.
Picture: Coach Dave Powell and the Needham High School Boy Championship Volleyball Team.
Step 1: The Accidental Ankle Sprain: The Coach Calls a Meeting (Time-Out).
Step 2: The Emergency Adjustment- Limp
Step 3. The Ankle Heals, But the Limp Lingers
Step 4. The Domino Effect: The Left Hip Gets Involved
Step 5. Shifting the Load: The Pelvis’ New Role
Step 6. The Spine's Tactical Maneuver: Keeping the Team Upright
Step 7. The Unexpected Twist: Sudden Back Pain
Big Picture!
In this volleyball coach analogy, your backup hitter is your low back. He is the one who is making a fuss, but not the true cause for all the chaos that’s happening. When you zoom out and assess the whole situation, you’ll realize that getting your original star hitter back to 100% would set off a reverse domino effect that fixes the entire system.
Would This Approach Work For Me?
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