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Ever feel like your shoulders are doing all the work?

In this exercise, Alice uses the ball to help her patient work on core stability, shoulder blade control and getting some of those other postural muscles involved, instead of relying so heavily on the upper traps.

And as her patient demonstrates, it can look very different when you first start.

Sometimes progress is simply teaching your body a better way to do the work.

Fall, in Trellis, is about reflection.

It’s easy to look at something that didn’t go the way we hoped and decide we failed. We weren’t disciplined enough. We fell off. We should have done better.

But reflection gives us a different way to look at it.

What worked? What didn’t? What got in the way? What did we learn about ourselves?

Sometimes moving forward starts with understanding where we’ve been.

That’s Fall.

Turns out, getting my spine where we want it means doing some work at home too.

In this part of My Spine Project, Dr. Sarah Kamiel walks me through my home-care equipment and explains how each piece connects back to what she’s seeing in my spine.

Now comes the harder part: actually doing my homework.

"Summer" isn't about pushing harder just because you can.

In Trellis, "Summer" is what happens when there's enough capacity to reach a little further.

More movement. More challenge. More connection. More life.

But knowing when you're ready for Summer, and what growth should actually look like, isn't always obvious.

That's where the seasons start to become useful.

We spend a lot of time thinking about the relationships closest to us.

But travelling has reminded me that there’s another kind of connection that matters too.

The conversation with someone you’ll never meet again. A smile from someone passing by. A few words exchanged while you’re waiting for something.

These interactions might be brief, but they connect us to the world around us.

Maybe we need strangers more than we realize.

An MRI showed a tear in the back portion of this patient's medial meniscus.

But the finding is only part of the story. Here, Yang works with his patient on a single-leg bridge to load the hamstrings and glutes, while keeping the knee controlled throughout the movement.

And when the exercise becomes easier? Progression doesn’t always mean adding more weight. Sometimes a pause and a little more control are enough to make an exercise significantly harder.

This is what individualized rehab can look like: understand what’s going on, choose the right starting point, then gradually build from there.