Why Does The Same Injury Keep Coming Back
The Postural Pattern Underneath The Pain That Rehab Never Addresses
You rest it. You rehab it. You ease back into training. And six weeks later, the same injury is back. The same shoulder, the same lower back, the same knee. Recurrent injuries are not bad luck. They are the predictable consequence of training on top of an unresolved postural pattern.
Why Rehab Works But The Injury Returns
The rehab industry is excellent at treating tissue damage. Rest, progressive loading, manual therapy, and exercise rehabilitation can restore tissue health effectively. What rehab often misses is the positional pattern that caused the tissue damage in the first place. The rehab was successful. The problem was not solved.
The Pattern Underneath The Pain
The pattern creates a positional stress. The stress accumulates with every rep. Eventually the tissue fails. You rehab the tissue. You return to training. The pattern is still there. The stress accumulates again. The tissue fails again. This cycle is predictable and preventable.
How Pelvic Rotation Creates Recurring Shoulder Impingement
The Right BC pattern internally rotates the humerus and drops the shoulder forward. This narrows the subacromial space. Every overhead press, every lateral raise compresses the supraspinatus tendon. Rest resolves the inflammation. Return to pressing. The shoulder is still internally rotated. The tendon gets compressed again. The pattern, described in PRI research, must be addressed from the pelvis up.
How Pelvic Rotation Creates Recurring Knee Pain
The Left AIC pattern rotates the femur, changes the Q-angle at the knee, and alters ground contact forces. Rehab the knee all you want. If the pelvis is still rotated, the forces through the knee remain asymmetrical. The same logic applies to recurring lower back spasm, which is driven by lost Zone of Apposition and compromised bracing.
How To Break The Recurrence Cycle
Breaking the cycle requires looking upstream from the site of pain. The shoulder impingement is a ribcage problem. The knee pain is a hip problem. The lower back spasm is a breathing problem. MOVECHECK tests the position and function of every major region, identifies the upstream patterns creating downstream stress, and targets the pattern instead of the pain site. When the pattern resolves, the positional stress disappears, and the injury stops recurring.
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