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Fairway Performance PodcastAuthor: Shaun Diachkoff
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Why Your Sore Back Isn't Actually a Back Problem
Monday, 31 August, 2026
Here is an idea that will change how you think about your body and your golf game forever: where the pain is, is rarely where the problem is.Most golfers, and honestly most of the fitness world, treat the body like a collection of separate parts. Sore shoulder, work on the shoulder. Tight back, stretch the back. But your body does not work like a set of separate boxes. It works like a chain. When one link cannot do its job, another link picks up the slack, and eventually that other link is the one that breaks down.In this episode I walk through the kinetic chain from the ground up: feet, ankles, knees, hips, pelvis, spine, shoulders, arms. In the golf swing, force travels up that chain and every link has a job. If one link is stiff or weak, the force does not disappear. It gets dumped onto the link next to it, which was never built to handle it. A stiff hip does not just give you a bad hip, it overloads the lower back above it and the knees below it. A locked-up mid back forces your shoulders and lower back to do jobs they were never designed to do.I make it real with a golfer who came to us with serious shoulder pain, knots, and the need for treatment just to function. The easy answer was to rest the shoulder. But the shoulder was screaming because it was compensating for what was missing elsewhere, and the pain kept coming back until we fixed what was forcing it to compensate. It is the same story with lower back pain, where the cause is so often stiff hips or a locked mid back robbing the spine of rotation.This is exactly why we screen the whole body before we build anything. We play detective and track the symptom back to its real source, because chasing the symptom is a treadmill. You never go anywhere. So next time something hurts or part of your swing keeps breaking down, do not just attack the spot. Ask what is making that spot do too much. That one question is the difference between spinning your wheels for years and actually fixing the problem.Want to find where to start? Take our free mobility self-assessment: https://golf-performance-call.vercel.app/free-assessmentFollow Shaun: https://www.instagram.com/shaun.diachkoff/Learn more: https://www.fairwayperformance.comHave questions, feedback or suggestions for future episode? Click here to send me a text!
