Article about John Yoffee's return to a normal life
John Yoffee ran into chronic low back pain that started eliminating more and more of his sports and daily activities.
His symptoms continued to get worse to the point where even sitting was painful after a few minutes.
He basically had to stop doing everything because it caused pain.
John is no different than anyone else I have ever worked with. His pain and dysfunction came on from how he has used his spine to move. It is the system Nature started him, and everyone on the planet, out using.
We all use the same movement method as infants. We all start out with all the body flexibility without control. So we all crawl, roll, press-up, sit-up, etc. until we build enough mobility control to finally be able to stand. We all continue to build our movement strength around this system I call “mobility control” or moving spine system.
This mobility control system strengthens the body by having the spine move along with the extremities. This is where the spine moves out of its anatomical position to help move the arms and legs to move.
Meaning we bend and rotate and side-bend the spine to help the arms and legs generate movement force.
Once we build enough strength in this moving spine system we then have the ability to walk around 10 to 12 months into our movement journeys.
John, like everyone I have ever worked with was a master at this movement system. He built his body strength around a moving spine system. This system worked until it didn’t. Eventually his overusing the spine to move the arms and legs caught up with him. That is why he came for help.
John, like everyone else I work with needed to learn a new movement system to restore normal function for the rest of his life.
Column-core training is that system.
It is a “stability control” system or what I call column-core training.
This system is the opposite of the mobility control system.
We started teaching John how to begin to control his spine (T1 – Sacrum) instead of moving it along with the arms and legs. I taught him what it felt like when his spine did not move.
He re-learned how to do basic movements like bridges, leg flexion exercises, side leg lifts, etc.
As he gained the feeling the difference between when the spine moved along with the extremities versus when the spine did not move to assist the extremities he started to “feel” the muscle activation difference.
Building this new skill, something he will use for the rest of his life, started him on the road to recovery.
As he quickly built on this skill he started to better understand these new muscle activation feelings and then we got him on the Kaehler Core to enhance this column-core process.
As with everyone I coach, once they get this new feeling map going, we build their movement skill library so they can return to doing all the things they once did.
The best part of this process is they have it for the rest of their lives.
John is back to skiing, running, and normal function. He also has his own Kaehler Core so he can keep this movement system sharp and strong.
This column-core system needs to be embedded into everyone’s movement brain. Now he trains his column-core strength as part of his regular training routine, just like his coach.