Bill Daniels explains why pain doesn't match tissue damage. Your brain triggers pain when it sees movement as unsafe, not because something is actually broken. Training that rewires how your nervous system perceives threat works better than muscle-focused approaches.
The biggest myth about what's keeping people stuck is very simple. People think that if there's pain, there has to be an equal amount of tissue damage. And that is so wrong because of so many different things. You could have a ton of damage in your back and have no pain at all. You could have a ton of pain and no damage. I have people with arthritis all the time. Doctors tell them, you have arthritis in your spine. And they're like, well, I don't feel anything. That can very well be the case. And on the flip side of that, you can have a ton of pain and go to the doctor and they say, we've taken images and we don't see what's wrong. Like, there's nothing wrong with this particular joint and I don't know why it's hurting. The issue is that your brain is telling you whether or not what you're doing is safe. And if it can't feel something or it doesn't know what's happening, say in the elbow when you move it, or it doesn't even understand or register how well you're moving your elbow, it's going to end up telling you, hey, that's not safe because I don't know what you're doing with that elbow down there, and you might get a pain response or a stiffness response. It's not going to work the way you want it to.
Stop Stretching Your Neck. Try This Instead (It Might Improve Your Vision Too)
