The road to recovery doesn’t have to be daunting, in a majority of cases with SQUARE 1 I’ve seen life changing moments happen in 5 minutes to 3 to 4 hours ranging from acute - chronic pains to stroke recovery.

We’re talking subconscious threat here. The less tasks perceived as threat to the CNS the less reason for the body to produce symptoms of pain, muscle tightness, weakness etc.. this is something you don’t have conscious control over. As more tasks are seen as SAFE instead of THREAT that’s how we neurally prepare the CNS & body for what it needs to do day in and day out. This task will change based on the individual. In extremes grandma needs to be prepared for walking up/ down steps and getting in and out of chairs, an Olympic level wrestler needs to be able to dish out and take countless collisions & scrappy uncommon positions. SQUARE 1 covers the full spectrum.

I don’t believe in sports specific movements I believe in human movement, shoulder external rotation isn’t exclusive to baseball players and football QBs. We just have different intensities and purposes for combinations of joint actions. Your brain is continuously putting together a plan of how to move you and executing it in real time. Things you’re not expecting will happen. Why not prepare yourself for the inevitable like tripping, coughing vigorously, shifting to the side when squatting etc.. give yourself safe options to fall back on while still under the umbrella of SAFE input to the CNS with SQUARE 1 . Who’s lived a perfect life so far? Nobody!

Coming back to injury & recovery. Their are some obvious cases like muscle tears and broken bones but when all of that heals why do we still move different, or takes forever to get back to where we were before the injury? Just because physically we have healed doesn’t mean we have healed neurally. Their is still potential to be reached. No one system is fully complete, however I believe SQUARE 1 is the closest we have seen.