What’s up everybody? Patrick Lerouge here, from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. Folks, I help people that need to live an active pain-free life. They need it. So they need to eliminate pain for the long term, not just for a little bit. That’s what we’re going to be focusing on today, as well as enhancing performance, whether it would be playing with kids, running around, weekend warrior, whatever it takes, every now and then. Whatever it takes every now and then, that’s a good one. That’s what I help with folks. I help you eliminate pain for the long-term and enhance your performance.
What we’re going to be talking about this week is actually how to eliminate pain for the long-term. I want to dive deep into this a little bit today. I was working with a client and they asked me about all these different ways, “Should I eliminate PT because they do this, this, this, this – all these different things?” I want to remind you, folks, everything works.  Everything works, but the video tip today is how not to get stuck by using Band-Aid solutions.  No, don’t think that’s the end-all-be-all.

If you keep on doing something over and over again, it’s giving you results, but not for long-term, that’s something that you want to use for the time – the intermediate time – but not for long-term.  You want to find out the hidden driver, what’s going on.  You don’t want to consistently keep on putting a Band-Aid on it.  You don’t want to consistently use meds to keep on going through things.  You don’t want to keep on using braces.  You want to find out the hidden cost.  A brace is great if you have a bony issue or a ligament issue that needs time to heal – long-term time – but not because you can’t sit up.  Every time I run, I have to do this because this muscle tissue is not working and I have to brace it forever.  People that run with the knee pads on – I call them knee pads because they’re huge – but you want to focus on that.
You want to focus on the long-term solutions rather than the short-term gains and staying with the short-term gains. Yes, the long-term solutions do take a little bit of time, especially if you’re dealing with the way the body wants to communicate and the body works. So it takes 7 to 14 days for your body to recycle and learn a new trait. If it hurts, it’s going to protect itself. It’s going to bind down on itself so it doesn’t move as much.
It’s going to take 7 to 14 days to unwire that and keep it unwired. You can break tissue up relatively fast. The massage therapists do it very very well.  Ralpher’s do it very very well, but long-term– and that’s not a knock on them. They do very good jobs, it’s just those are short-term gains. Long-term gains is you actually taking what they did and taking it that extra further step. So furthering their work by learning how to move properly, actually walking properly, doing all those things on a constant basis, that’s what it’s all about. Taking what you’ve done, rewired something and then take it for the constant basis so you no longer need that Band-Aid, that crutch of a brace, the med that you’re using to be that anti-inflammatory. You want to start getting the body to start learning how to do this properly so you no longer need that brace, that crutch, that Band-Aid. Eventually, once you put a Band-Aid on something and you start working because the body is so adaptive, it’s going to realize that it can’t use that area anymore, it’s going to compensate.
Now that compensating area is going to turn around and start doing a different job description than it’s normally doing. So a hinge joint now is going to start turning into a mobile object rather than a straight stable object. It’s going to start doing more things with its job. Then it’s going to start tweaking and grinding, and grinding turns into mashing, and then it’s just going to not want to move because it’s just going to freeze itself. That’s the way the body is designed. It’s going to adapt until it can’t adapt anymore and then it’s going to freeze that area and make the next area adapt.
So folks, this week is all about getting you to realize, let’s stop using Band-Aid solutions for the long-term and realize what works now, works now. But where can we take it a step further? What’s the driving force? Find that out and poof, you’ve got your answer for long term pain relief. Folks, if you enjoyed this, pass it along. This is a great thing for the people that need to be pain-free. They need to hear this consistently so if you know somebody, pass it along. If you are not part of this family, the restored away family, please sign up and get me dropped in your inbox every week, giving you different tips on how to restore your body and eliminate pain for the long term and enhance your performance. Until next time, folks, bye.