Ok so my right arm has been asleep for a long time due to my injury as a boy, when I dislocated my elbow and fractured the bone. So I had always unconsciously and naturally compensated for the work my biceps and triceps should have done with my shoulder. It was firstly to allow it to heal, but then compensation became default.
My right knee’s ligaments were compressed together since I was a born and in time they became slowly fused and did not allow full mobility anymore, and I unconsciously and naturally compensated by tip-toeing – when I walked, when I ran and when I went up the stairs. Which made it fuse further through atrophy.
And that’s one of the reasons I could never really do the Asian squat and make that sucking lip-smacking sound with my lips while squatting down by the sidewalk and watching cars and girls go by. That explains it. Dammit, it does.
When we hurt, our body compensates. We walk a certain way, we do things a certain way, we avoid further possible hurt, and it’s because doing so helps us heal. But sometimes by the time we are healed, the compensation has already become a habit. This is how we move, and this is how we will be moving from now on. We become our scars.
But compensation should not extend beyond the time it is needed for us to heal, and we should revert to our natural state…
