Entry Point Assessment: why your body’s still protecting you from injuries that healed years ago

If the same area keeps flaring, the tissue may be fine — the nervous system is still running a protection protocol. You can stretch and strengthen forever, but if the brain’s rules don’t change, the pattern returns.

Why your body “remembers” old injuries

Injury teaches the brain specific lessons about safety. Those lessons can persist: the ankle sprain you had at 16 can still bias your gait at 35. The system builds workarounds that push force into healthy tissues that weren’t designed to absorb it — and the cascade begins.

What the Entry Point Assessment does differently

We stop chasing symptoms and test the system:

• 3D motion capture to quantify compensations (no guesswork).
• Neuro-driven screening to surface protective reflexes and sequencing errors.
• In-session loading and retests to see what actually changes — that’s the entry point.

How compensations cascade

One protective reflex can ripple through the chain:

• Foot stiffness → tibial rotation limits → hip strategy changes → lumbar bracing → shoulder overload.
  Once you see the chain, you can break it at the highest-leverage link.

What changes after the EPA

• The brain stops over-protecting what’s healed.
• Stabilizers wake up; global muscles stop overworking.
• Movement becomes repeatable, not brittle.
• Strength work finally “sticks” because the base is stable.

Stop treating symptoms. Start solving systems. The EPA shows precisely where to start so the whole chain adapts.