Ever fixed your shoulder by teasing your hip? 👀

"Brainy What-Why-How"

Your weekly nibble of brain-based tips to help you move and feel great!

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What:

You can ease up your cranky shoulder by.... getting down and dirty with your hips?

Yeah, I said it. 

Mobilise your hips, and your shoulders might just moan in relief. 🤯

Welcome to the wild and wonderful world of inter-limb neural coupling – aka the science-y way of saying your limbs are in a long-distance relationship. 💌

Why:

Turns out, your limbs like to whisper sweet nothings to each other across your nervous system. 

When one moves (say, your left hip), it sends a little love note to its long-lost partner on the other side (your right shoulder). 💃🕺

Why? Because we’re wired that way.

Quite literally — neurons that fire together, wire together 🧠 

It’s part of the primal dance of walking, crawling, and not falling over in public.

How:

Each joint has a “partner in crime” — and shoulders and hips are a total power couple 👯‍♀️

So if your left shoulder is throwing a tantrum, and you’ve tried every massage, banded distraction, and TikTok rehab hack in existence… 

try mobilising your right hip. 

I know it sounds like sci-fi. 🛸

When I first found out about this, I wanted it not to work, just to prove it wrong. 

But damn it, it works.

🧠 It’s just good ol’ brainy biomechanics.

True stories from my body’s weird love affairs:

• Right knee pain that stalked me for months? Cured by showing some TLC to my left elbow 😏

• Tight left hip flexor -- soothed by doing things to my right shoulder.

• Lingering left big toe pain (courtesy of one aggressive bed frame)? Sorted out by mobilising my right thumb 🤷‍♀️

It’s weird. It’s wonderful. It’s annoyingly effective.

If you want to go deep into those nuances,
then you're going to want to join my next 
Functional Neurology Training 

Wishing you and your joints the kind of mobility that feels borderline illegal,

Adell xoxo

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