01/14/2026
Pain is one of the biggest reasons faulty movement patterns stick around.
When something hurts, your body avoids it. That makes sense. You move around the pain instead of into it.
Most of the time, when the pain goes away, your movement cleans itself up. You go right back to moving normally.
But sometimes the pain has been there long enough that the compensation sticks.
It becomes the way you move.
I see this all the time when people squat. I can tell their knees have hurt for a long time, because they no longer choose to use them.
Instead of bending the knees, they sit their hips way back and turn the squat into a hinge.
They are not doing it wrong on purpose.
They are avoiding what used to hurt.
The problem is that once pain is gone, the pattern does not always fix itself.
It has to be retrained.
And retaining takes time and hard work that most people aren’t willing to put in.
It took time for your injury/pain to cause these problematic patterns, and it will take more than 2 weeks for them to be retrained.
This is not meant to be fear-mongering. You are capable and able to re-write the stories and patterns pain has made, but you have to be willing to DO something different.
You need to find someone who actually works to get you better so you never have to see them again for that same pain.
Save this for when you need it.
Follow along for helpful info how to get out of pain and move better.
