02/03/2026
When pain keeps coming back, most people assume something new must be wrong.
In reality, the body is usually doing the same thing it has been doing all along.
Early on, the body adapts to keep you moving. It shifts how you load, how you breathe, how you stabilize, and how you move through daily life. Those changes are not mistakes. They are solutions that worked in the moment.
The problem is not the adaptation.
The problem is staying in it.
Over time, those short term workarounds become the default strategy. The nervous system stops exploring new options and keeps running the same pattern, even when the original issue has changed or healed.
This is why pain can move.
This is why relief does not always last.
This is why treating the same area over and over can feel like starting from scratch.
When you only chase symptoms, the pattern stays intact.
When you identify the pattern underneath, progress becomes possible.
That is why everything we do starts with clarity at Conrad Spine and Sport.