Kyler Brown
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first heard May 2025
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that dorsiflexion or bring your toes up, the pogo, when it's a sudden like acute force like that, you probably also just create a little bit of a joint irritation. It's analogous to jamming your finger.
If you move those two joint structures together really hard quickly and your body can't absorb that force, that'll get a lot more sore than if it's just kind of a slow repetitive stress like the rucking. The pathway is, and you've noticed the relief, like when we do the manual therapy and things like that, that's a nice short term, like, oh, it feels a little better, a little less pain. Great.
But the bigger picture and the ask of your body is teaching it, how can it respond to this and how do I build that force in those tendons to where not only does that tendons start to regenerate and heal, but then it's also ready to react to all the things you do. So knowing for you specifically that you love to use those feet, And the more barefoot you are, like you're more likely to do that.
We need to do a ton more quick work with you that's deloaded to train all those tendons. I mean, there are so many tendons in the lower leg and the ankle. We need to train all those tendons to get quick and stiff in different positions so you don't jam the joint or create a stress in the tendon. Should I be doing less barefoot activity? No, I don't think so at all.
I think that's a pathway to frailty. You want to stimulate the receptors in the bottom of your foot. Do I want you running on like a river barefoot with sharp rocks? No, because that's going to cause other problems. But I think having you barefoot makes your foot mobile and strong. But then if we piggyback that with this specific type of training for where your gaps are, it's a huge payoff.
Let's look at the other side. Most people don't have your situation. More often than not, people have a really rigid foot that's weak and stiff. So we're actually going with a whole other direction where we're trying to get motion in the foot. We're teaching that foot to separate rear foot and forefoot. How do those people present? What's the pain or what's the injury they present with?
Interestingly, they actually get a lot of symptoms up the chain. Our foot has so many bones and all these articulations where we're supposed to comply to the ground. If that shock absorption goes away, like let's say I'm wearing these big goofy running shoes that they sell now that have the rocker where it's all just like patching holes in the boat rather than optimizing movement.
If we have a foot that is stiff, those force factors go up through the body. So now my knees, my hips, and my spine have to figure out that force distribution because one of my best shock absorbers is the foot and the ankle. If that's not doing its job, everything else pays the price. So I see a lot of people, let's say the soleus is weak, their lower part of their calf.
So that control of their tibia as either walk or lunge isn't there. So that ankle just walks up and then they send all that force to their knee. That's why one of my favorites is anyone with a chronic knee issue, I'm going right at that foot and ankle first. Because if the foot and ankle isn't up to the task, then my knee is going to take a beating.
I mean, it's a good theory, but absolutely. Yeah. You're really good, wide, mobile feet. Your knees gets to be a knee.
If that rotation, that pivot joint that's supposed to happen at the ankle isn't pronounced to the amount you want and it isn't mobile enough, then that knee and that force vector is going to happen at the upper tibia and the femur where now you start to get these little meniscus things that showed up out of nowhere. That torsion has to happen somewhere.
Yeah, I love what you just showed there. The graph is always going to have peaks and valleys. When your brain perceives threat, whatever that could be, maybe your dad hurt himself playing football, so you're scared to play football. But when your brain perceives threat, not only is your heightened awareness up, your nervous system is kicked up, but we're more sensitive to pain.
So certain things hurt more when we're ill or when we're stressed than if we're not. And if we stick to just movement themselves, a lot of people are afraid of certain movements because it hurt me in the past, or they heard it could hurt them, or maybe they just haven't done it a long time, so they're nervous about it.
So you can actually empower people if you show them there's a rational reason why that fear could be there or why that pain is there. Pain does not always mean injury. Pain is your brain telling you, hey, I don't like what's happening here, but it doesn't always mean you're broken or busted. Another thing to think about is your image isn't always a death sentence.
If we MRI 100,000 low backs, there's going to be wear and tear, especially if you're over 30 years old. Same goes for every other joint in the body. Does that mean we design your whole clinical plan around that? No. We really need to think about, okay, how much is there? What do they want to do? What are their strengths? What are their weaknesses? All those things we already spoke to.
So when there's fear involved, you really have to address that because the individual needs to know that A, you have a plan for them, that you understand their fears. And then B, we got to account for those fears in one way or another. So this is not data, but in my private practice,
The amount of low back flare ups, just your traditional back spasm, not a surgical candidate, just high back pain, but no damage. The amount of those people that have come in when their wife's about to go into labor or they're worried about getting fired from their job where they have like an emotional mental stress in their life. The amount of those people is infinite.
I've had thousands of people come in and go, my back flared up out of nowhere. And then you start to dive in, like what else is going on? And they're really worried or stressed about something. The goal there is you can't always fix those external, cultural, psychological, emotional things, but we can address them and identify them. And sometimes they need therapy.
They need other things to address those. But more importantly, we need to empower that individual and give them rational reasons why you're like, hey, this might be why you flared up in that glute or in that mid back. And this is what we're going to do about it. And if you outline those plans for people and give them the tools, now you've equipped them to actually help themselves.
This whole game of, I'm going to take an x-ray view and look, oh, there's one little bone spur, but now I'm going to scare you into like a 40 visit package to my chiropractic clinic or something. That game needs to go away fast because the only thing you're doing is making people feel more frail, more afraid, and you're actually only helping the bottom line of your business.
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