Treating Symptoms v. Treating the System

Think about the last time you hurt your knee. It may have been a minor injury. Perhaps you treated
it with ice, rest and maybe even some doctor-prescribed anti-inflammatory medication. But you
can’t lie in bed for a week while your knee heals. So you limped around for a week or two as you went to work, to visit friends, while you cleaned house, and so on. All that was good, right? You nursed your sore knee, while you got things done and lived your life.

The problem with limping
The only problem is that your body began moving in unnatural patterns in order to ease the burden on your sore, injured knee. You may have begun turning your back at an awkward angle so you could more gently drag your injured leg behind you. You may have even begun to hold the foot of your injured leg in a gawky position to keep from scuffing your toes. And your off-leg, had to take
up the burden left by the injured leg.

The point is that the rest of your body was strained and contorted over a two-week period. AND, during that time, it learned a new, unnatural way of moving that it may not have been able to
unlearn. So your body continued moving slightly askew, though healthy, in the weeks, months and years that followed. Further stressing and straining you’re your off-leg, your back, your foot, and (through disuse) weakening the knee that was originally injured.

Limping Times 2, 3, 10
Now multiply that by perhaps one injury every couple of years since age sixteen, and you can see that treating only the immediate, visible symptoms is not the answer – unless you want to live with a mounting system-wide problem that may someday turn into something very, very bad. You could spend endless days, weeks, and months chasing the pain to try to fix each isolated problem.

Giving CORE a Go: Treating the System
Or you could give CORE structural therapy a go, and solve all of those interrelated issues at the system level.

Why do our bodies feel 'stiff' following aging and or injury? Listen to the famous 'Fuzz' Speach: