How Your Body Works

August 9, 2025

One of the biggest mistakes I see in rehab and training is thinking that different areas of your body respond or need to be trained or attacked differently. And so what I mean by that is, like, if we look at what makes up an elbow, what makes up a knee, what makes up a shoulder, the exact same things make up each of those areas. There's a joint, they have cartilage, there's a ligament, there's tendons, there's muscle, right? There's all the different tissue that's involved with each joint that we have. 

And those specific tissues or that tissue type is going to respond to the input that we put into your body in the same way across your whole system. Right?

And so the way or the principle that we use to rehab a knee is no different than the principle that we use to rehab a shoulder or the principle that we use to rehab a spine. Right? We're going to use the feedback that we get from those tissues, which are the same. They're configured differently and they move differently. Your hip rotates, your elbow doesn't rotate. Good. But the actual tissues that make it up are exactly the same. The feedback that we get is going to work the same. And that's probably the most important part. The feedback is going to work the same. If something hurts to the point where you're not supposed to do it, you're going to feel that no matter where the area is, right?

If it feels good and you're able to do that, then you're also going to feel that no matter where the area is. So as long as we can take into account and consider, like, You know, this is what the area does. Like, the hip is going to rotate. It's going to flex, extend. It's going to abduct. The elbow is basically going to, like, flex, extend. As long as we know what those are, we can then use the principles of it, right? The principle is the feedback.

 The principle is working with your body to give the stimulus that it needs. As long as we work with that, then the actual rehab that we do doesn't really matter or the body part that needs the rehab or the body part that needs to be addressed doesn't really matter because they're all going to be addressed in a similar way in terms of the principle of how we do it.

 And so if someone is telling you that, like, our knee is rehab different from a shoulder, they don't understand that the body is made up of the same tissue, no matter where it's at. And that those are going to respond the same way in stimulus. And so that principle is what guides what we do, which makes it very similar. In terms of how we rehab each different area that we're dealing with