Adapting our whole body posture to compensate for pain is a natural response, e.g. limping.  When limping, we use different muscles, which puts a strain on the rest of our body.  Each time the body is injured, the site of injury has an impact on the rest of the body.  However, our bodies are very clever at adapting and finding a new normal in order to be able to continue everyday life, but the original injury pattern often silently remains. As we use and abuse our bodies over the years, we continue to adapt and our posture alters accordingly, brushing off minor aches and pains and effectively plastering over the cracks, until one unfortunate day, there are no more adaptations available to make and suddenly, we are in severe debilitating pain, for no apparent reason.  It is often only at this point that we start to contemplate seeking help.  The pain may be in your back for example, but the original injury, or the root cause, may have been in your shoulder.  Therefore, Amatsu Practitioners are trained to look at the body as a whole, we look for patterns of adaptations with an understanding that muscles and ligaments interconnect and have an overall effect on our posture and shape.  In order to reveal the root cause of pain, each layer of compensatory reactions need to be unravelled until the body is back in balance.