Dr. Slava Shut

It’s such a simple concept: one part of you is effected by others. When there’s nothing wrong with us, it can be easy to make sense of.

But the second there’s something wrong that we can’t figure out, things tend to get a lot more complicated!

Let’s say you have an important meeting coming up with some special clients. You’ve found the address, got yourself a halfway decent parking spot, and you’re walking in the front door. 

Once you’re inside the building, you check your email one more time to find the suite number: 391. You glance around at the lobby. It’s a large building with shiny marble floors and happy, smiling faces. It’s easy to like it here.

When you ask where the elevator is, a pleasant sounding worker politely informs you that the elevators are down, but the stairs are just around a corner.

What’s the first thought that enters your mind in this case? Do you just bound up the stairs and start looking for the right room?

Or do you panic a little bit at the thought of having to climb three flights of stairs?

Welcome to Topic Thursday, where we discuss something specifically related to fitness, health, or life in general. Today, we’re going to talk about how your confidence is linked to your physical well-being.

Mind-body Connection

When you feel well, you can do more. It makes sense when it’s put so simply. But there are going to be times along the journey to health, wealth and happiness that get a little more complicated.

Think about the last time you didn’t feel so well. It made everything else just a little bit more difficult, didn’t it? Even if something relatively small was the matter, the effect it can have on everything else can be pretty dramatic sometimes. 

Take for instance the example in which I described the important meeting in the nice building. Let’s say you’re the person that has a moment when they find out they have to take the stairs to meet an important client. Regardless of how capable you are, your mindset won’t be the same when you get to the meeting. You might not be as confident, or feel as prepared. And when you finally do make that all-important first introduction, you might not come across the way you really want to.

Whether or not you actually have had this exact scenario take place in your own life, if you’ve ever been held back by concerns about a physical limitation, you’re already familiar with how your psychological and physical states are interconnected. It’s been studied and documented at this point. The lives we live sometimes allow us to overlook one thing to succeed at something else, but you can never truly be a success if a part of you has failed.

How To Balance Physical And Mental Health

In order for me to help any of my patients, the most important thing for me to do is to get a full understanding of their current situation. At Back 2 Health, we don’t just spot treat symptoms; our goal is to treat as many people as possible and heal as many lives as we can. If all we looked at were the symptoms, we’d be chasing one after the other; never getting that patient back to their healthiest selves. 

Getting a full understanding of the patient’s day-to-day struggles can really help with identifying why they have certain issues. Sometime over the course of treatment, certain patterns and habits start to become a little more clear to us. Their effects on each patient are easier to spot.

Especially with my chronic pain patients, there’s something that’s causing an imbalance over the long term. It could be their posture, creating tension in areas that aren’t the best at dissipating load. It could be a stubborn pelvic floor dysfunction, which is often exacerbated by unmanaged stress. It could be that many of these seemingly unrelated symptoms all have to do with the same thing; your life is out of balance.

If you’re recovering from an injury or need help working through range-of-motion, physical therapy can be just the piece you’re missing to unlock your true potential. Once you get to see what you’re capable of, it’s much easier to believe all the other things you can do. Health and happiness go hand in hand.

Are you ready to unlock your potential? Let’s get started. Contact my team to schedule a 1-on-1 with me today!