Imagine that the front left tire on your car wasn’t properly balanced. Your car would start vibrating as you drove down the road. Normally you would get this checked out by a qualified mechanic, but imagine if you did nothing to correct this issue.

Over time and several thousand miles, the imbalance would worsen, and other parts of the vehicle would begin to break down. Essentially the wobbly tire would wear out the car more rapidly than if the tire were properly balanced and aligned.

Now imagine that the ligaments and tendons that hold together any joint in your body become loose, damaged, or weakened. This is much like the wobbly car tire where proper stability and tissue integrity in tendons and ligaments is necessary to protect joints from becoming unbalanced and out of alignment.