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This site about clinical somatic education provides answers and instruction for people who seek definitive relief from lingering muscle and joint pain, disc problems, pinched nerves, soft-tissue injuries and stress-related disorders; and "practice-grade" information for professionals locating new information in the health field. |
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Physical therapists, sports medicine doctors and trainers, and both conventional and alternative health care providers are gradually recognizing the great usefulness of clinical somatic education for their diagnosis and for speeding relief of pain, recovery from injury, for anti-aging (mysterious pains and loss of mobility) and stress disorders (e.g., headaches, PTSD). Two of its strengths are (for clients) self-relief of pain and (for insurers) injury prevention.
With widespread adoption, clinical somatic education, well-practiced, is rather likely to ease substantially the pain and suffering and the heavy and burdensome economic costs of the health care crisis (and "economic meltdown") by:
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If you've been getting treatment for pain for a long time and aren't getting better,
aren't getting better fast enough, or if your condition has defied a decisive diagnosis; if you've "tried everything" and you have despaired that you may have to live that way for the rest of your life, this site is for you. It's got something new. If you've been slowed down by pain and stiffness, if you have forgotten what it feels like to feel good and move well and now you hope only to reduce or manage your pain, this site offers an option better than that.
Here, you'll find more than emotional support for pain or explanations of the causes of pain disorders; you'll find ways to end your own pain definitively (and help if you need it), to recover your capacity for healthy activity in a reasonably short period of time, at your preferred standard of movement health (or better). There exists a specific process in which you actively participate, with obvious (i.e., blatant), lasting improvements accumulating at each step -- well-defined, very effective and very cost-effective steps. This is for people ready to participate actively in their own healing, ready to learn -- not for people who want a cure "performed upon them". This is one of those breakthroughs needed to ease the "health care crisis" -- which is a crisis of effectiveness, a crisis of the experience people have of health care, of medical insurance coverage, and of the American economy, caused largely by inefficiency and waste inherent in outdated, traditional treatment methods and bureaucratic bog-down. Injuries and Pain Reflexes | to articles | CLICK to email someone about this site.Injuries, shocks, and pain trigger postural reflexes that rob us of control of our own muscles and cause pain and stiffness to linger long after tissue has healed; we tighten up, and tight muscles hurt; we lose the ability to relax tight muscles and to move freely in certain ways. Without retraining, people often stay that way indefinitely: "He was never the same, after that." Many people have had this experience. What's been lacking in most therapeutic approaches (<== click for comparisons) is the ability to deal directly with these reflexes and the habituated muscle tension they cause, and a way to enable people to keep themselves independently well. The ability to deal with these reflexes is the breakthrough offered here.
Even if you've had a problem for a long time, time is not a factor. You can have your life back -- in recreation and athletics, at work, at home and in the bedroom -- in short, in any situation where you need free and easy movement to exercise, lift and carry a heavy box, get into a car or move gracefully from position to position.
The key to recovery is your recapturing control of muscles tightened by reflexes triggered by injury or nervous tension; the tension eases and you can move comfortably, again. Pain fades out, starting immmediately. You come back to the way you were -- or (more often) finish better than you were, before -- and you can keep yourself well without outside help.
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it,
nor in traditions because they are old and have been handed down from generation to generation and in many locations, nor in rumor because it has been spoken by many, nor in writings by sages because sages wrote them, nor in ones own fancies, thinking that it is such an extraordinary thought, it must have been inspired by a god or higher power, nor in inferences drawn from some haphazard assumption made by us, nor in what seems to be of necessity by analogy, nor in anything merely because it is based on the authority of our teachers, masters, and elders. However, after thorough investigation, observation, analysis and reflection, when you find that anything agrees with reason and your experience, and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, and of the world at large; accept only that as true, and shape your life in accordance with it; and live up to it. ~~ Gautama Siddhartha Shakyamuni |
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The proof of the pudding is in . . . . .
"Somatic" (from the ancient Greek word, "soma": "the whole living, aware, bodily person") means, "pertaining to the body experienced and controlled from within." "Education" meaning "the awakening of your natural faculties."
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