Christopher Ellis challenges the idea that pain comes from tissue damage or bad movement. He describes how sleep deprivation amplified his own pain, and explains that pain is complex and multifactorial, not just a local problem. No movement is inherently bad; pain happens when you do something your body isn't ready for yet.
It'd be common for them to come in and I slept pretty good today. And no, actually the pain's actually not that bad. And that's when I was like, okay, this, this, you know, lack of sleep is an amplifier. So we've been stuck in this sort of biomechanical model of pain. So if your knee hurts, your ankle hurts, it's gotta be something you're doing. You're moving wrong, which I hate, by the way. There's no really bad movements or bad exercises. It's just, you're not ready for it maybe. But the tissue is the issue. That's the phrase to kind of explain the biomedical model of pain. That it's a local issue, you're doing something that's irritating it, which certainly could be the case, but that's not really how pain works.
