Part 3 (of 4):

TREATING PAIN ISN'T ENOUGH

HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW
Part 2 (of 4): The Missing Piece

  1. School taught you to treat the painful structure, but not how to assess at a deeper neurofunctional level that will ensure the fixes hold.

  2. Without that neuro-muscular lens, every “perfect” protocol is just a temporary fix.

You learned how to treat where it hurts.


Low-back flare-ups? Mobilize the lumbar segments.

Anterior knee pain? Strengthen the VMO.

Headaches? Release the traps, adjust C-spine, cue posture.

You drilled the pain-site protocols:

“Strengthen this. Mobilize that. Tape here. Adjust there.”

And sometimes, patients walked out feeling better...

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:

 
👉🏼 If treating the pain-site were enough, every patient would get (and stay) better.

 
👉🏼 If standard protocols solved the problem, your results would be automatic.
 
We all accept that every patient is different.
 
Their body, their history, their lifestyle, their movement—all unique.
 

So why were you taught to treat them all the same?

Real results require that you trace the signal deeper than where it hurts.
 
They require the ability to decode the specific dysfunction at play:
 
Is it fascial?
Is it muscular?
Is it neural?
 

Because when you don’t know the true driver:

🔁 You treat what’s reacting, not what’s causing.

🔁 You chase symptoms, not systems.
 
🔁 You apply “best practices” that don’t actually fit the patient in front of you.
 
 

This is the missing piece in almost every assessment model you were taught...

 
... and it's exactly what I teach in FIFA (Foundations in NeuroFunctional Assessment)
 
And it’s why your outcomes, no matter how skilled you are, still feel inconsistent.
 
It’s not that you're doing something wrong.
 
It’s that the tools you were given are incomplete.
 
Until you assess through the nervous system with FIFA, you're only playing with half the deck.
 
You’re also missing out on the patients who invest in long‑term performance and keep clinics solid... even when the economy wobbles...
CONTINUE →

NEXT: Part 4 (of 4): The "Economy-Proof" Patient Market

HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW

  1. General patterns and one-size protocols can’t solve unique neuro-muscular drivers.

  2. Until you pinpoint whether a dysfunction is fascial, muscular, or neural, you’re treating reactions, not causes.