When I see people trying to sort out their pain, I see them making their lives harder. Doing core exercises. Correcting their posture. Going to endless appointments to be fixed. This is what I did for a long time too. I was following advice. It was stuff that ‘made sense’, but it was always more […]
It is easy to get stuck in the serious business of trying to relieve your pain. Like: Training one abdominal muscle to fire more quickly ‘Correcting’ your posture. Doing a exercise you hate because it is supposed to help. But how do mammals learn best? Through play! Getting out of pain* involves a lot of learning
Telling yourself to relax is useless. Just as dogs don’t understand English automatically, your body doesn’t know what your instructions to yourself mean, unless you teach them properly. Dogs learn what words mean well, despite us often being fuzzy, imprecise trainers. But it’s amazing how many people will repeat ‘Come here Bella!’ in the park
If you think of posture as a position, you will hold it. Probably too tightly and tensely. Like the second picture of the woman: standing up straight, sure, but wow it looks like hard work. Understanding how to have better posture starts with this simple shift in thinking: posture isn’t really staying in a static
I deal almost exclusively with people have tried everything for their pain already. People with complex, long standing issues. A lot of them are hypermobile. Sometimes they know they are. Sometimes they have had a physio mention it about a joint or too, but not had any further information. Often they have never considered it
“Pain is in the brain” If you have been looking for solutions for a persistent pain problem, then you will likely have heard this phrase at some point. Urgh. I know the reaction it triggers in so many people living with a pain problem. They hear: “it’s all in your head” With good reason. Often
