Radiofrequency Ablation was the procedure a surgeon was considering doing on my back pain client.

Now to be clear, I'm not bashing this procedure in its entirety, I've just seen too many stores of clients rushing into surgery for back pain without doing the right sort of physical training first.

Surgery is often positioned as a definitive last resort, but the issue is that many people just haven't tried the right physical approach, and so while they feel like there at last resort stage, they're nowhere near it.

My client who is now running, training and performing, needed an intelligent and precise plan, not someone to singe the problematic nerves around his low back.

Keep moving forward,
Colman

Your body needs specificity, precision and care. Not the same rehab plan as the 4 other Plantar Fascitis patients that a practictioner seen this week.

An exercise is only as effective as the assessment and subsequent clinical reasoning used to justify it. If your rehab doesn't have that, it may be slop.

It's not an uncommon feeling, and in this episode, we look to Japan and its approach towards art, to draw a parallel in how we can find depth in the simple aspects of our rehab and training.

You know me, I love a tangent.

In seriousness however, if you can truly understand this and learn to bring depth yourself, and not seek the movement to do everything for you, you're results from your rehab, and your entire physical journey will be more enriching!

I believe pessimism is an important and healthy lens through which to view our physical journeys, not because I'm encouraging you to wallow in despair and never try, but rather to try your hardest, knowing that you'll always face curveballs in your journey. This is a liberating outlook because it minimises the woe is me mentality, and instead encourages you to keep moving forward amidst the unpredictabiltiy of our physical journeys.

It's the most common answer to nearly all fitness and rehab questions. Is it just a cop out from lazy coaches? Well if they don't tell you WHAT it depends on, then yes.

But in my case at least, it's the most intellectually honest i can give you.

In this podcast we dive into this idea so you actually understand it, as opposed to seeing it as a vapid soundbite!

But that's the reality, progress is a cruel mistress. Or rather, it just is, and it's us that need to alter our ideas of how progress will manifest in our rehab journeys.

In this episode, we look at the mental tricks we play on ourselves before starting a new plan, the bodies resistance to change through homeostasis, and how stepping 'back' often delivers the best results.

In this episode we look at the dangers of being someone who's too smart for their own good hinders progress, and how the body can often make do with 'good enough' if it's done consistently and repeatedly.

Short and sharp, so you can spend less time thinking, and more time doing!

In this episode, I explore pain as an emergent, nervous-system-driven process not always visible, measurable, or linear, and why understanding this can ease frustration and help you actually work with pain, and not against it