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Forty-eight hours before teeing off at the Canadian Open, a tour pro faced withdrawal. Every step to the range sent lightning through his medial arch. Traditional treatment would've chased the pain. We chased the source instead.
Elite athletes live by one rule: everything's connected. Your foot doesn't work in isolation – it's the end point of a kinetic chain that starts at your head and flows through every joint. When one link fails, another compensates. Keep compensating long enough, and something breaks.
That "something" is rarely where the problem started.
This PGA pro's foot pain? Just the final domino in a cascade that began with a stuck rib, traveled through an inhibited hamstring, and ended with an overworked tibialis posterior screaming for help.
Standard assessments test strength. Our Entry Point protocol tests reactive stability – how your nervous system coordinates protection and performance under load. It's the difference between knowing a muscle works and understanding why it won't.
What we found:
Each finding told part of the story. Together, they revealed the plot.
Stuck rib → Hamstring shutdown → Foot overload
When posterior rib 3/4 gets stuck, it sends faulty signals through the nervous system. The brain interprets this as danger and inhibits the hamstring on that side. But the hamstring's job – controlling knee flexion and rotation during the swing – doesn't disappear.
Enter the tibialis posterior. This deep foot stabilizer suddenly has to help control rotation it was never designed for. Do that for thousands of swings, and you get inflammation, pain, and a golfer considering withdrawal.
But wait – why was the rib stuck? Apical breathing pattern. When you breathe through your chest instead of your diaphragm, the scalenes work overtime. Tight scalenes limit neck rotation. Limited neck rotation kills your swing's natural flow.
Everything connects.
We didn't ice the foot. We didn't inject the arch. We adjusted the rib.
Immediate results:
The golfer didn't just play – he reported his swing felt "30% more automatic." When you remove the interference, the system remembers how to work.
Pre-intervention:
Post-intervention (10 minutes):
Tournament outcome:
How many compensations are you playing through right now? That slight fade you can't fix. The power leak at impact. The fatigue that hits the back nine.
Your nervous system might be protecting you from an old injury you've forgotten about. A breathing pattern you've never noticed. A joint restriction three segments away from where you feel it.
The Entry Point Assessment maps these hidden limitations. MOCAP captures how they affect your swing. Together, they reveal the shortest path back to automatic movement.
Stop chasing symptoms. Start solving systems.
Book your Entry Point Assessment and discover what's really limiting your performance.
From tour pros to weekend warriors – when the system flows, the game follows.