A JANMI Journal reflection on a golfer with right lumbar and upper glute pain linked to left scapular restriction, shoulder flexion limitation, and full-chain rotational imbalance.

Dear reader, Two days ago a female client in her early thirties came to see me at JANMI after one of those moments that modern people never expect to become a full body crisis. She bent down to pick something up from the floor. That was all. No car crash. No deadlift competition. No wild sporting accident in the Alps. Just one ordinary bend in the middle of an ordinary London life. And yet from that moment the whole lumbo pelvic area seized up. She could hardly move the trunk in any direction...

Dear reader, A few days ago I saw a young client in his early twenties who had started to feel pain on the lateral side of his right knee after playing tennis. At first glance, many people would look only at the knee and begin the usual local drama there. But the body is rarely so simple. The knee often suffers from a problem that was born lower down and then pushed upward through the chain. On assessment, what stood out to me was a flat overpronated foot, together with very tight hamstrings...