This week is all about pain.
Pain, we’ve all experienced it at one time or another. Pain is a protective mechanism designed to protect our tissues from trauma, and it is an illusion 100% of the time. The longer we are in pain the better we get at running the pain circuits. That is we learn pain. The problem is that as pain persists and we get better at it, it changes its quality. Ultimately it’s not even informative, it’s both unhelpful and uninformative.

People are increasingly unhappy with their status quo. They remember being more comfortable in their bodies and wonder what has changed. The guilty party seems to be time. But how exactly has the passage of time managed to compromise our feeling of youth, resilience, health and wellbeing?

The typical response is, aging, I am getting old. Yes, but age is just the passage of time. It is our behaviour during the passage of time, which ultimately determines who we have become and what we are feeling today.

The question becomes how can we modify both our environment and our behaviour to change the quality of the mechanical input acting upon us so that we move away from the path of deterioration and we move towards the path of restoration.

The goal of these Pain Paradox emails, is to provide you with the latest information in pain science and care. This will allow you to make informed decisions about your pain, decisions will that empower you to transform your pain care journey, positively and sustainably.

Adaptive Bodywork is not imposed on the client

Adaptive Bodywork is not imposed on the client. The work should be on this side of the pain threshold, and the client and practitioner work out where the pressure and intensity level should be for maximum benefit. No good will come of ‘grinning and bearing it’ through an entire series. Occasionally, it is beneficial to ‘expose’ pain stored in the body, but imposing pain is not a part of Adaptive Bodywork.

Secondly, the client moves during the application of the manual therapy. If you are lying passively on the table or the floor for most of the session, you are not getting the best work you can get. Adaptive Bodywork follows Ida Rolf’s pithy dictum: “Put it where it belongs and call for movement.” Your movement produces several benefits: it lessens the sensation by spreading it out, it engages your proprioception (inner sensing) that helps integrate the work, and it also helps the practitioner stay on the right layer of fascia during the release.

Thirdly, your Adaptive Bodywork practitioner wants to hear about how the process is affecting you – physically, emotionally, in your exercise or other performance activities. Letting your practitioner know what’s up is very helpful in getting the best work for you.

Pain – Why am I feeling it?

Pain is about survival. Pain is an illusion 100% of the time. It is an illusion designed to protect you, to help you survive.

How do we convince people in pain, that we understand that they are in pain, but that it’s not just about the tissues in their bodies. How do we convince them of that?

Pain is designed to protect you
Pain is an output of the brain designed to protect you. Pain is the end result. Pain is not something that comes from the tissues of your body.

The brain has to project the illusion that pain exists at the site of an injury. Pain is a construct of the brain 100% of the time. Any piece of credible evidence that supports the idea that we’re in danger should generate pain.

Referred pain
The brain not only produces pain but it projects it to other locations.

We learn pain and get good at it

Two things happen when pain persists, that make the life of someone in pain very difficult. This is the problem.

1. When pain persists and we keep running the neurones, the brain cells, that produce pain, they get better a producing pain. They become more and more sensitive, so we need a smaller and smaller influence to create the same pain. The illusion in increased sensitivity becomes very unhelpful. It’s trying to protect you from something that is not needing protection. It’s very real.

2. The other thing that happens is that all these networks loose their capacity to be specific and precise so the pain spreads. The pain changes its quality. Ultimately it’s not even informative, it’s both unhelpful and uninformative.

To eliminate pain we have to demonstrate to our brain that we are safe, and that we are not in danger.

Start your journey to structural well being with a comprehensive 90 minute Adaptive Bodywork Session or make it a project with a 3, 6 or 12-series.

Together we’ll explore what’s holding you back.

Together, we’ll set you on a path to a more balanced and integrated life.

Removing Pain from the Human body by Adaptively Reconfiguring the Connective Tissue Support System…

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Start your journey to structural well being with a comprehensive 90 minute Adaptive Bodywork Session or make it a project with a 3, 6 or 12-series.

Together we’ll explore what’s holding you back.

Together, we’ll set you on a path to a more balanced and integrated life.

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