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Fear of Reinjury.Your body gets to trust you again.

Rehab is done, everything checks out, you've got the doctor's okay. And still your body won't go all in, like it's still holding onto the old danger.

What it is · Fear of Reinjury

A movement block after injury is a protective reflex that stays even though the tissue healed long ago. Your nervous system filed the injury away as a warning and keeps the brake on, even without any real reason left. The structure is healed. The trust in the movement isn't, not yet.

Sound familiar?

On paper you're fit again. At full sprint, something holds you back.
You notice yourself cushioning the landing without thinking, on exactly that side.
The doctor gives you the green light, your body stays cautious.
The moment the old movement comes up, everything tenses before you even decide to.
You're back, but not as free as you were before the injury.

Why more of the same won't fix it.

After an injury, your nervous system remembers the movement that hurt, and builds a guard around it. That guard keeps firing even after the bone, ligament, or muscle has fully healed. No amount of strength training erases that memory, because you're training tissue that's already healthy. The reflex sits deeper, in the place where your body manages danger.

This caution isn't imagined. It has a place in your body, a spot that shuts down, pulls, or locks up during the critical movement. That's where the session goes, not to the tissue that already healed.

The way out: one session.

1

Find your desired feeling

First we clarify how the movement should feel again. Usually it's a feeling of trust, of safety in your own body, anchored in your heart space. That feeling becomes your lighthouse, the target the session heads toward.

2

Locate the block, don't explain it

Then you locate the protective reflex in your body. No explaining, no going back to the injury, just feeling: where does it shut when you think about the full movement? Your body knows the spot right away. Your Guide only ever asks about the place and walks with you as you feel into it.

3

Release it and anchor it for 40 days

In the session, the block releases right there. Afterward, you anchor the new trust in your body for 40 days with the app, morning and evening, about 90 seconds each time. Short sessions, until your nervous system files the movement as safe again and the guarding just lets go on its own.

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Common questions.

My scans are clean. Can the block still be real?
Yes, and that's actually common. Imaging shows the tissue, not the control system behind your movement. Your nervous system can keep sending the old warning even though everything structural has healed. That's exactly the gap between a healed body and a still-active guard that the session closes.
Do I have to talk about anything?
No. You don't have to relive the injury or tell any of the story. The session works through the body, through locating the spot. Whatever happened back then stays with you.
Is one session enough before competition?
For releasing the protective reflex, yes. To make the new freedom stick, the 40 days with the app follow, where your body takes the full movement back on as normal. If you're working toward a competition, plan the session with enough lead time before it.
Is this mental training or therapy?
Neither. It's a body-based method with its own approach, grown out of roughly 1,000 sessions and today carried by more than 40 Guides in five countries. It doesn't replace medical rehab, it deals with the protective reflex left over once healing is done.

What holds you back has an address.

Over 40 certified guides in 5 countries work with this method. Around 1,000 people have had a session. Yours takes 90 minutes.

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Where do you find support near you?

Fear of Reinjury: A session takes 90 minutes, in person or online via video. Then the app anchors the result over 40 days.

Andy Dittrich, Founder & Trainer bei FIVE MOVES in Rheinfelden
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Sévérine Bächtold, Guide & Trainer bei FIVE MOVES in Sursee
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Sursee · easy to reach from Lucerne, Olten, Zofingen, Willisau
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Alexandra Koch, Guide & Trainer bei FIVE MOVES in Zurich
Alexandra Koch
Guide & Trainer · Zurich · easy to reach from Winterthur, Uster, Dietikon
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