Dr. Kelly Starrett

Injury for us is there's a clear mechanism of mechanical trauma. There's a bone sticking out of your leg, Andrew. Time to go to the hospital. Injured. Right, you're injured, right? I heard a snap and a pop. Yikes. I have night sweats, dizziness, fever, vomiting, nausea, unaccounted for weight loss, weight gain, changes in my bladder, bowel function, problem like cough, sneeze, or swallow.

Those are red flags. You're not sore, you're sick. Let me introduce you to the doctor again, right? If your pain or dysfunction is so bad you can't occupy a role in your family, can't occupy a role in society, can't occupy a role in the team, that's an emergency problem. That is a medical condition that needs medical. So you come in today, you've tweaked your back. We need to activate EMS.

Those are red flags. You're not sore, you're sick. Let me introduce you to the doctor again, right? If your pain or dysfunction is so bad you can't occupy a role in your family, can't occupy a role in society, can't occupy a role in the team, that's an emergency problem. That is a medical condition that needs medical. So you come in today, you've tweaked your back. We need to activate EMS.

Those are red flags. You're not sore, you're sick. Let me introduce you to the doctor again, right? If your pain or dysfunction is so bad you can't occupy a role in your family, can't occupy a role in society, can't occupy a role in the team, that's an emergency problem. That is a medical condition that needs medical. So you come in today, you've tweaked your back. We need to activate EMS.

You need to go to the hospital. Because it's so severe, you can't do your job. Everything else I want to call non-injury. I want to be very specific with the language you use. We call it an incident. It actually comes out of this sort of language. There was a guy, here's the long way around the barn. I read this great book called Deep Survival.

You need to go to the hospital. Because it's so severe, you can't do your job. Everything else I want to call non-injury. I want to be very specific with the language you use. We call it an incident. It actually comes out of this sort of language. There was a guy, here's the long way around the barn. I read this great book called Deep Survival.

You need to go to the hospital. Because it's so severe, you can't do your job. Everything else I want to call non-injury. I want to be very specific with the language you use. We call it an incident. It actually comes out of this sort of language. There was a guy, here's the long way around the barn. I read this great book called Deep Survival.

which is Lawrence Gonzalez, which is about why people end up in survival situations. And it's literally a lot about, like, we got away with it for a long time. And then I just didn't have a, you know, I ended up two miles out sea. I've done it a million times. And this time, right, that's it.

which is Lawrence Gonzalez, which is about why people end up in survival situations. And it's literally a lot about, like, we got away with it for a long time. And then I just didn't have a, you know, I ended up two miles out sea. I've done it a million times. And this time, right, that's it.

which is Lawrence Gonzalez, which is about why people end up in survival situations. And it's literally a lot about, like, we got away with it for a long time. And then I just didn't have a, you know, I ended up two miles out sea. I've done it a million times. And this time, right, that's it.

But there was a footnote in there from a book called Normal Accidents by Charles Perrault, who's recently passed on. I emailed Charles because I was like, this is blowing my mind. He calls a lot of times we'll have trivial events in non-trivial systems. So he's taking systems thinking. He's looking at complex system organization.

But there was a footnote in there from a book called Normal Accidents by Charles Perrault, who's recently passed on. I emailed Charles because I was like, this is blowing my mind. He calls a lot of times we'll have trivial events in non-trivial systems. So he's taking systems thinking. He's looking at complex system organization.

But there was a footnote in there from a book called Normal Accidents by Charles Perrault, who's recently passed on. I emailed Charles because I was like, this is blowing my mind. He calls a lot of times we'll have trivial events in non-trivial systems. So he's taking systems thinking. He's looking at complex system organization.

And his idea is that an accident, a normal accident, is actually just expression of the system if you gave the system long enough to express itself. The inputs and outputs are so tightly coupled that it's difficult to see what causes what and how they influence each other. That's the body. So your stiff shoulder isn't a problem until you fall on the ice.

And his idea is that an accident, a normal accident, is actually just expression of the system if you gave the system long enough to express itself. The inputs and outputs are so tightly coupled that it's difficult to see what causes what and how they influence each other. That's the body. So your stiff shoulder isn't a problem until you fall on the ice.

And his idea is that an accident, a normal accident, is actually just expression of the system if you gave the system long enough to express itself. The inputs and outputs are so tightly coupled that it's difficult to see what causes what and how they influence each other. That's the body. So your stiff shoulder isn't a problem until you fall on the ice.

And then that stiff shoulder suddenly can't take over pressure and overhead, and you tear your rotator cuff off at high speed. You'd say, oh, black swan event, super crazy. But that's actually just a normal expression of that shoulder system if we gave it enough time to express itself. So he has sort of like incident and accident.

And then that stiff shoulder suddenly can't take over pressure and overhead, and you tear your rotator cuff off at high speed. You'd say, oh, black swan event, super crazy. But that's actually just a normal expression of that shoulder system if we gave it enough time to express itself. So he has sort of like incident and accident.

And then that stiff shoulder suddenly can't take over pressure and overhead, and you tear your rotator cuff off at high speed. You'd say, oh, black swan event, super crazy. But that's actually just a normal expression of that shoulder system if we gave it enough time to express itself. So he has sort of like incident and accident.

So an incident is I want us to start to think about incident-level problems, our pain, loss of range of motion, numbness, tingling. We're becoming curious. Why is the brain sending me the signals? Pain is a request for change. So if we ask our athletic population, I just did this with 100 kids. I'm like, how many of you are pain-free? 100 high school kids. Two hands go up. High school.