Apollo Performance Therapy

This question from my stories last weekend deserves its own post. This is something I hear from almost every person that books a discovery call with us.

The typical pattern goes like this:

Receive treatment.

Symptoms improve for 12-48 hours (or only feels good while it is happening).

Symptoms come back.

Repeat cycle for weeks/months/years.

Here are a couple of the biggest things to keep in mind (but not even close to all the possible reasons).

1. Your plan has only included passive treatments so far.

IMS/acupuncture, massage, adjustments, laser, shockwave, etc all have their place.

But nothing works for everybody.

And if the passive treatments were going to work, they would have by now.

You NEED to include exercise.

Things that can improve your coordination. Your strength. Your overall health to create a better environment for your system.

Strength. Mobility. Power. Elasticity (springiness). Endurance. Coordination.

These are the qualities that you can improve through exercise (and we all have some of these that we can improve).

2. Your area of symptoms is not the problem area. It’s the victim.

I’m all for treating the area of symptoms, but I also want to make sure it is actually CAUSING the symptoms.

If your knee hurts, and you pass all of our clinical tests for the knee (range, strength, jumping, endurance, etc.). I am going to start looking else where.

Is there an ankle/foot issue that is causing the knee to do more work than it can handle?

Is the hip missing range that is causing the knee to take on more rotational torque than it likes?

If you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras.....but also make sure you look around to make sure they ARE horses.