02/10/2026
Standing at the edge of the Fish River Canyon, it’s hard to imagine it wasn’t always there.
It wasn’t carved by one event. It started with the shifting of the earth’s plates hundreds of millions of years ago, which set the shape of the valley. Then came glaciers, moving slowly over that same ground for millions more years, grinding it deeper. Only after that did the river itself take over, quietly eroding the inner gorge we see today, drop by drop, over time.
The spine works the same way. There’s usually an initial trauma that shifts things out of place. The body compensates around it. And then daily life, the stress and the wear and tear, slowly deepens whatever was already set in motion.
Understand the process, and you understand the CAUSE.