Movement hygiene

Remember the last time you wore black socks?

Remember the fuzz that accumulated between your toes?

There is a similar lint-like fuzz that accumulates between your skin and the underlying tissues when there is no movement between the layers for an extended period of time. This occurs every night as we sleep and in regions that are not used throughout the day.

This sliding layer is crucial for communicating body information that the brain uses to coordinate movement.

This is why you, and every other animal in the kingdom, wakes up and immediately performs seemingly random stretches, aka pandiculation, to reset the sliding layer and break up the fuzzy adhesions that prevent access to ranges of motion.

Imagine if you wore black socks every day and just ignored the space between the 4th and 5th toes on your right foot. Imagine the accumulation of the fuzz over a week…

A month…

Decades.

Remember when you used to be able to put your leg behind your head?

Remember when you could touch your toes?

Remember when you could pick something up off the ground without groaning?

Toe fuzz washes out easily unless you wait years. Then you have to deal with the fungal infection too.

The fuzzy adhesions releases easily unless you wait years. Then you have to deal with the subconscious compensations that have taken up root in your neurology.

Wash between all of your toes every day.

Move every joint in your body at least once…

Every day.

This is movement hygiene.