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EDS

March 18, 2025 · In: Pain Science and Healing, Science-Backed Education

Understanding Hypermobile EDS and How Physical Therapy Can Help

Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, or EDS for short, are a collection of connective tissue disorders. This connective tissue is affected throughout the body. Symptoms can range from hypermobility to digestive issues and…

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shoulder impingement exercises

March 11, 2025 · In: Pain Science and Healing, Science-Backed Education

The Truth About Shoulder Impingement

Understanding the biomechanics behind shoulder impingement exercises will reveal why shoulder impingement is an outdated diagnosis. Shoulder impingement, now known as subacromial pain syndrome (SAPS), involves pain under the acromion,…

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anterior pelvic tilt

March 4, 2025 · In: Pain Science and Healing, Science-Backed Education

Do I Need to Fix My Anterior Pelvic Tilt?

Anterior pelvic tilt. It is often a buzzword tossed around. Fun fact: anterior pelvic tilt is NOT a diagnosis! So if it isn’t a diagnosis, then what exactly is it?…

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cross training

February 18, 2025 · In: Movement, Strength for Resilience

Why is Cross Training Important for Athletes?

Athletes strive for peak performance and mastering in their respective sports. All athletes looking to train effectively to propel them forward should be incorporating cross training. Cross training incorporates different…

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hip impingement exercises

February 11, 2025 · In: Mobility and Restoration, Movement

Top Hip Impingement Exercises to Relieve Your Discomfort

Have you ever gone to the gym for a leg workout only to find out you have to stop because of this pinching pain in the front of your hip…

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plantar fasciitis symptoms

February 4, 2025 · In: Body Region Support, Foot/Ankle, Science-Backed Education

Recognizing Plantar Fasciitis Symptoms & What to Do About It

Have you every woken up in the morning and to take those first steps out of bed and experience pain in your heel and bottom of your foot? You could…

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big toe extension

January 28, 2025 · In: Mobility and Restoration, Movement

Unlocking the Role of Big Toe Extension

When you think about foot mobility and mechanics, the big toe might not be the first thing that comes to mind. However, big toe extension plays a big role in…

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gut brain axis

January 21, 2025 · In: Pain Science and Healing, Science-Backed Education

The Important Connection Between Exercise and the Gut Brain Axis

The gut brain axis refers to a communication pathway between the gut and the brain. More specifically, it refers to the communication between the central nervous system and the enteric…

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sprained ankle

January 14, 2025 · In: Injuries and Surgeries, Science-Backed Education

A Comprehensive Guide For a Sprained Ankle

A sprained ankle can happen to pretty much anyone. It can occur while playing your respective sport, walking across the grass and stepping in an inconspicuous hole, stepping off of…

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exercises for knee pain when walking

January 7, 2025 · In: Body Region Support, Knee, Science-Backed Education

Knee Pain When Walking? How to Walk with Pain Free Knees

Walking should be a welcome daily activity that doesn’t come with discomfort. Yet, for many, daily steps can come with either a sharp or throbbing sensation of knee pain. Knee…

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hi, i'm tera!

I'm a licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy and the founder of PT Complete. I built the Regulate and Rebuild Method because most people trying to get back into their body after chronic pain are told to either push through it or rest completely, and neither one actually works. I write from the clinic and from my own body, since I'm working through my own chronic pain story right now, too. When I'm not working, you'll probably find me managing the regular chaos of life or curled up with coffee and a dessert I can't seem to quit.

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You don’t actually want to be pain free. You want You don’t actually want to be pain free.

You want to walk further without thinking about it. Get down on the ground with your kid and back up again. Sit through a full dinner without shifting in your seat. Sleep through the night. Say yes to the spontaneous thing.

Maybe the goal was never zero pain. Maybe it was a body you don’t have to negotiate with.

That’s the shift I want you to make, from tracking pain scores to tracking your actual life, whether you can do the things you want to do, not just how much it hurts while you do them.

The order still matters to get there. Regulate first, rebuild the strength, then the habits hold.

Send this to the friend who needs to hear it’s not just about the pain.
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I stood in front of my fridge for an hour. Couldn’ I stood in front of my fridge for an hour. Couldn’t decide, not even sure I was hungry. Just stuck. And one decision felt like the hardest thing I’d been asked to do all day, even though I’d made decisions all day long without a second thought.

I kept wondering what was wrong with me. Turns out, nothing was.

Fight, flight, and freeze are all protective responses your nervous system reaches for under threat. Fight and flight speed you up. They give you the energy to push back or get away. Freeze does the opposite. It shuts things down because there’s nothing left to fight with or run from.

That fridge moment wasn’t a discipline problem. It was my nervous system running out before dinner could be decided and made.

Freeze doesn’t get talked about as much as fight or flight, but it’s just as real and it shows up in the most ordinary places…a kitchen, a closed laptop, a decision that shouldn’t be hard and somehow is.

If you’ve had a night like this, you already know exactly what I’m talking about.

If this sounds familiar, tell me in the comments, or text someone who’d know exactly what I mean.
I reached for the weights I used to lift before my I reached for the weights I used to lift before my brain caught up.

It took half a second in my garage. The half second was the moment I realized I couldn’t even lift the dumbbell. I registered the gap between the body I used to train and the body I have now.

I dialed back down. Instead of the 30s, I picked up the 10s, and I did the work that fits what my system can absorb right now.

Nobody warns you that the rebuilding work has these moments built into it. The half-seconds when your old identity reaches for a load your current capacity can’t carry, and you mistake the disappointment for evidence that you are failing.

Your current body is not a smaller version of the one you used to have. It is a different body, doing real work, on a different scale.

You can train this one.

Tag the woman who’s still reaching for the weight she used to lift. Remind her she’s not alone.
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