The nervous system plays a huge role in sports. Nerve pain puts any athlete on the sideline, and most people get nerve pain over time. Whether it’s you sciatic nerve or another location, caring for the spine is the only option.
Nerves run through all our limbs up the CNS(Central Nervous System) in the spine. Nerves do not stretch like muscles, and are designed to slide and glide instead. This sliding accommodates for joint mobility. There is a certain amount of Neurological Slack in our body, and sometimes we run out of slack. If the CNS is a hose, we through kinks in it.
What feels like back pain and leg stiffness is often our nervous system protecting itself. If we hunch our back and bend down, moving too far can cause damage. The nervous system stops further movement. When the nervous system is neglected, the body restricts movement and power output. This happens to everyone to different degrees.
Mid to high level movement restriction is very common, unless athletes have trained for years (hopefully following a proven system and not winging nervous system care). This might look like a lack of flexibility, when it is actually the nerves running out of room to move. Skillful care improves the quality of our movement.
TRS has a simple way to care for the nervous system: the bracing sequence. It is a way of prioritizing good position(namely good starting position), and working towards it all the time. This sets TRS athletes apart from almost any other, they understand spine position and how to prioritize it.