Ivette Pinela|Structural Integration

Have you ever stood up after sitting for a long time and suddenly your ankle hurts so badly you can barely put pressure on it?

You didn’t roll it.
You didn’t fall.
You didn’t injure it.

So why does your ankle hurt?

Think about what happens when you’ve been sitting for hours.

You shift. You cross your legs. You tuck one leg underneath you. You twist your pelvis to one side because you’re simply trying to find a comfortable position and give your body a break.

And sometimes that compensation doesn’t stay where it started.

Your sitting bone can rotate. Your pelvis can become twisted. The relationship between your hip, knee, lower leg and foot changes.

And suddenly you’re feeling it in your ankle.

The ankle may be where you feel the pain. It may not be where the problem started.

Fascia is a continuous 3-dimensional web. A restriction higher up can change the way force travels through your leg and how your foot meets the ground with every step.

You can massage the ankle.
Stretch it.
Ice it.
Strengthen it.
Work on the foot.

But if the ankle is compensating for a restriction somewhere else, you may be working on the symptom without addressing the larger structural pattern.

This is where Structural Integration can change the conversation.

Instead of looking at the ankle as an isolated part, we look at the relationships throughout the body.

What is pulling on this ankle that may have nothing to do with the ankle itself?

If you’ve been dealing with ankle pain that doesn’t make sense—or keeps coming back—maybe it’s time to look beyond the place that hurts.

The hidden piece of the puzzle may be your fascia.

DM Ivette for the link to get started.

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