Why Your Body Hurts.

July 6, 2025

The most basic concept to understand with an injury is your body is going to attempt to protect you from that because it is a direct threat to your survival, right? This is a very proper response. If you were to run face first into a wall, smash your face, and you didn't feel anything, thank you.

 There would be a problem and there would be something significantly wrong with your body because you'd basically be able to just go around destroying yourself and get no feedback that you were doing that. So it's understanding that the body... You with feedback after an injury or after a surgery for the good of it, because it's saying, 'Hey there's something wrong here.

I want you to survive, so I'm going to give you this feedback, so that you know it's there, right? So, if we take that very basic concept and we understand that, the primary goal of a rehab is to be able to put your body in a position where it no longer feels or thinks that that is a threat to your survival, right? 

So that means, for example, if you have an elbow injury, that's a threat to your survival. We need to train or rehab in a way where that is no longer a threat to your survival. And that means that we have to, over a long period of time, put that tissue, put that area, and put yourself through a very, very, very high level of stimulus that's greater than the injury, that's greater than the pain.

 Be able to take and accept that, and actually feel good with that, so that that area or you yourself can see that this is no longer a threat to your survival. And that's the most basic, most important fundamental principle when it comes to rehab after injuries or surgeries.