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Your spine doesn’t need a surgeon. It needs a foundation.

Most back and hip pain isn’t structural failure. It’s muscular weakness pretending to be something worse. The medical system is built to intervene. Cut. Prescribe. Manage. Not rebuild.

I’ve lived this. Still working through it. What changed everything wasn’t a diagnosis. It was loading the right muscles consistently and letting the body do what it was designed to do.

Your glutes are probably asleep. Your core is probably decorative. Your hip flexors are probably running the show because nothing else showed up to work.

Fix that and the pain starts losing its grip.

Nobody’s selling you this because there’s no revenue in someone who got stronger and stopped coming back. The body is remarkable when you stop outsourcing its job to a pharmacy.

Start light. Stay consistent. Build the foundation your skeleton is begging for.
You don’t need management. You need capacity.

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margurite 🌼 · 1w
Well said! The Bird Dog exercise is good for this
Swear Jar · 1w
Love this. Figured i would share a bit since i know how shitty chronic pain can be. In case it helps someone: Eating carnivore fixed every pain in my body. My body was fucked from rucking and para and all sorts of stupid work things. I did physio for years and was strong. I had healthy movement ...
Detective Deft Defector · 1w
My hands hurt less when i do my push ups on my knuckles. Makes zero sense to me but the results are flawless.
1nerd · 1w
When i start to feel not 100% I just fast for a day or two
398ja · 1w
The glutes, yes, but also fascia. Very underrated, but so important imho
Neal · 1w
💯 Hurting my back was the best thing that happened to me because it got me started down the mobility path. Looking back at the way I trained. it was inevitable. Consistency is king here. It doesn’t happen overnight, but just like stacking sats, you look backwards after some time, and can’t...