Therapy thoughts (4/6/25) - Thinking more biologically than biomechanically

Last weekend teaching in Canada, I talked a lot about seeing the world through more of a biological lens than a biomechanical one.

Biomechanics definitely help us think about how the body interacts with the world and can be really useful for measuring things like kinematics (movement) and kinetics (forces).

BUT....

For me, it doesn't help us understand so much about pain and injury, or certainly much less than we thought

A biological view really helps me understand why the health of the organism matters so much, something that we have so much evidence for. As well as the role of lifestyle and genetics! 

Also how normal physiological processes such as the wear and repair cycle might become pathophysiological if our biological homeostasis is interrupted. 

It helps us why we can be so adaptable as biological creatures.

But also why for some, adaptation doesn't seem to occur, if their systems are not able to adapt so readily.

The problem is biology is so damn complex, it's might easier to identify a faulty movement and blame that, even if the evidence does not point in this direction as a model for injury and pain.

So maybe we need to think more biologically and physiologically than just mechanically!