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In clinical practice, there can be a danger of focusing into where the patient is saying that they have pain and forgetting that there is a whole body attached to that painful part. Often it is the aspects distant to where the pain lies, that is the ultimate seat of the problem. This often shows its self when patients present with recurrent issues, often describing an "old injury" that keeps coming back or describing an ongoing weakness in an area that has been there for years. We have a choice in clinic, to either treat the area that hurts and hope that the pain stays away for long enough to allow the patient to get on with their often modified approach to life, or we can seek out the root cause of the issues and provide a more lasting solution which seeks to normalise the function of that painful area in relation to the function of the whole body, and in doing so, allow them to function without modifying there activities. The problem we have, is how do we define that normal function..

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