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Kinesiophobia: “the avoidance of activity because you fear it will cause pain.”
--Norman J. Marcus, MD
While I was talking with one of my clients who had suffered from back pain for over four years, he realized that only when distracted did he not have pain with movement. In his...
Please enjoy an excerpt from my book, Winning the Injury Game, available on Amazon
Katy Bowman, a well-renowned movement biomechanist, has a great discussion about loads in her book, Move Your DNA.1 If you are into this sort of thing, definitely check it out. In her example, she...
Please enjoy an excerpt from my book, Winning the Injury Game, available on Amazon.
Neurosciences Professor Dr. Lorimer Moseley says, “Pain is a construct of the brain.”1 Now to be clear, I am not suggesting that the pain is all in your head or that you are making it up....
Many people blame injuries and pain on their age. However, I'm here to tell you that you don't need to give up sports just because you're growing older. Sports themselves do not cause your injuries, either. Sports are not bad! We are designed to move and play for all of our days. Sadly, the...
“Pain is part of the body's defense system, producing a reflexive retraction from the painful stimulus, and tendencies to protect the affected body part while it heals, and avoid that harmful situation in the future.”
This is the evolutionary and behavioral role of pain as described...
I've heard a saying regarding pain in the body, “the victim screams while the criminal is silent.”
When Tom Myers, internationally known fascia expert and author of Anatomy Trains, said this, he was referring to the interconnected relationships between the soft tissues in the body....
In case you missed my article in the Los Alamos Daily Post it is reprinted below.
Do you have joint or muscle pain? It may be your posture. According to the Egoscue Method® of posture alignment the “design posture” of the human body is to have the load-bearing...
To reduce joint pain my Egoscue® therapist recommended I measure and work to improve my body pH. Defined as "potential for Hydrogen" pH represents the acid-base balance in arterial blood. The density of positively charged hydrogen ions makes a solution acidic or basic. An acid has a greater...