Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter says if you spend 20 minutes on daily stretching, heating pads, and braces before you can move, your body is compensating for something broken, not healed. That's a sign to see a doctor, not a routine to accept.
If it takes you 20 minutes to prepare your body for normal human movement, then we should probably talk. I'm not talking about warming up for a marathon. I'm talking about the routine you do just to get out of bed, walk downstairs, or make it through the workday. The stretching, the cracking, the heating pad, the brace, the careful steps. You may have gotten so used to that routine that it doesn't even feel unusual anymore. But constantly working around pain is not the same as addressing it. If your body requires a full pregame ceremony just to function, consider having the underlying problem properly evaluated.
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