Dr. Kelly Starrett

She's fully returned to play.

A couple months later, I walked back into the gym.

She's wearing her boot again.

And I was like, oh no, like you injured yourself again.

She's like, I don't know what happened.

I just woke up and it started hurting.

And what I said to her was, tell me more.

And I was like, what's going on?

Like, this is not, that's not how the brain works.

It's not how your body works.

Like I've seen you move after the scene.

She's like, well, my dog just died.

And that death was so significant for her that her brain was basically took stock.

What was going on with her body was like, must be the ankle again.

So just lowering that, that sensitive or raising that sensitivity by that stressful event was enough for her to trigger her brain thinking that that body was unsafe.

So as we're working through this,

and trying to gather information about a complex system, and remember the brain is the most sophisticated structure in the known universe, we can start with saying, well, do you have range of motion here?

That's an easy place to start.

Because we can play press and guess, where I get you to scrape and we mobilize and we can do some isometrics, but we could be much more targeted in our approach here.

And rarely is it like the tendon, right?