Place your neutral spine conditioning program on hold if you suffer any injury regardless of source. Move your next digital coaching session up as soone as possible so that we can evaluate the injury. Quick medical evaluation ensures safety and enhances recovery. You can purchase an Injury Screen for prompt attention. Often we can keep you on a modified version of your program to reduce the impact of the injury on your neutral spine conditioning program.
What it took to get to this level of conditioning is your new lifestyle to ensure long term Injury Management and Injury Prevention. The Injury Prevention 8-pack will condition you to safely return to fitness, sport and recreational activities with healthy posture.
You cannot unload your neck or low back until you restore your ability to “Stack Your Upper Back!"
If your pain is coming from muscle tightness and resolves after a few repetitions, it is likely safe to work through this pain. This is why we have you perform your joint clearing techniques before strengthening exercises. We will be able to identify and many times treat mis-alignments to allow you to safely complete your workout. Discuss any pain issues with your PT on Demand PT/PTA during your next coaching session for clarification.
If you do not resolve any pain issues at one level of exercise, DO NOT advance to the next level of exercise. Move on to the next exercise in the workout.
At this level of neutral spine conditioning you are able to return to the gym and some sport and recreational activities without faulty loading patterns. Your PT on Demand PT/PTA will be able to outline clearly what tasks are appropriate for you based on you demonstrated abilities to maintain neutral spine alignment.