The Monday Effect, or Why Your Massage Lasted Only Two Days

Every other day of the week is fine. Yeah Here’s a common frustration for therapists of all kinds (and their clients.) After a session, whether it’s massage, chiropractic, a Feldenkrais movement lesson, Rolfing, osteopathy, whatever, the client feels great, as if there has been a major progress. Pain is reduced, coordination improves, movement feels easier, […]

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Strategies to Reduce Chronic Pain, Part Two

No gain? In a previous post I discussed some basic strategies to reduce chronic pain, based on what we know about pain science.  As discussed here, chronic pain is sometimes not so much a problem with actual ongoing physical damage to the body, but instead due to overactivity in the pain alarm system itself.  Here […]

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Strategies to Reduce Chronic Pain, Part One

Image via Wikipedia In the previous post I discussed the fact that chronic pain is sometimes not so much a problem with actual ongoing physical damage to the body, but instead due to issues with the way the central nervous system processes pain.  In other words, the pain alarm system is just going off too […]

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How to Improve Proprioception

What exactly is proprioception? You could call it body sense or kinesthetic awareness – it is the brain’s ability to sense the relative positions and movements of the different body parts. Because of proprioception, you know exactly where your hand is in space as you move it around, even though your eyes are closed. All […]

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Sensory Motor Amnesia

Sensory Motor Amnesia (“SMA”) is a great term coined by Thomas Hanna, the inventor of Somatics  SMA describes inefficient patterns of muscular activation that are so habitual you can’t sense or control them. For example, you might have simply forgotten how to relax areas such as the neck, low back and shoulders, or how to […]

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