The Robust Human Project

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This was an interesting case with chronic neck pain. She had a major concussion decades ago. Concussions, more often than not, create dysfunctions within the muscles of the eyes.
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The order of operations is as follows. The brain thinks, your eyes look, and then your body goes. If your eyes can’t properly look, the threat response kicks in. It will lock up muscles to prevent you from going in a direction where it can’t properly see what’s coming.
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Your neck and your pelvis rotate opposite of your thoracic spine. In this case, a dysfunction in her right eye causes the rotational muscles in the left side of her neck to tighten up and the muscle involve in pelvic rotation to the left to weaken.
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In this case, it’s chronic neck pain, in others it could present as chronic low back pain. Release the right muscle involve the right eye and kachow, pain goes away.
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One of my favorite quotes is, where you think it is, it ain’t. Imagine the frustration people have when they’ve consistently been treated at the sight of pain rather than treating the root cause.